Saturday, October 25, 2008

Gmail and Gtalk (Finally) Get Decent Emoticons












Gmail’s emoticons have so far been somewhat lacking; some might call them spartan, even; there weren’t that many of them and they weren’t really that nicely drawn. Now, Gmail has fixed this with an expanded choice of cute animated and static smileys available from the emoticon menu which appears on the toolbar when you start writing a new e-mail.


Gtalk also has some new smilies, but not nearly as many as Gmail; personally, I wish it were the other way round, because I feel smilies are much more
 appropriate in chat than in e-mails. Let’s hope Google will stop treating Gtalk like an unwanted child when it comes to emoticons..

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