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Are you the one who often use emoticons in your mails? Then you have a great news today from GMail Labs.

Google introduced emoticons on October 2008 through Gmail Labs.

A new release in GMail labs, Extra Emoji, showered with a lots of emoticons.

Below is the list of emoticons released by Extra Emoji.

Using emoticons in mails are always fun and makes the mail better in terms of look and feel.

Enable Extra Emoji from GMail Labs and Have fun!

This is further to the post on Firfox tip Set multiple pages as home in Firefox.

This tip would allow you to set a custom page whenever you open a new tab (Ctr+T).

You need to install New Tab URL add-on to achieve this.

On successful installation you will be able to

Select default URL when new tabs are opened: “Blank page”, “Home page”, “Current page” or a user defined URL.

New Tab URL - Options

Simple dialog box provides you various options to set a default URL for your new tab.

Download Add-ons  : New Tab URL

Have fun.

This tip would be useful for you if you want to check more than one website so often.

Firefox allow you to set multiple web pages as home.

Follow the simple steps…

1. Open all the web pages you wan to set as home. (Let us say www.yahoo.com and www.google.com)
2. Click on Tools->Options->Main
3. Against When Firefox starts question select Show my homepage from the combo box
4. Click on Use Current Pages button
5. Click OK

Firefox Options

Now, whenever you open Firefox the pages you set will be opened by default.

You can also set your Home Page as follows.

www.yahoo.com|www.google.com

Just separate the webpages with | symbol (as shown in the picture) to set multiple pages as Home Page.

… in Plain English is a popular series from CommonCraft. Twitter in Plain English is one another masterpiece.

Yesterday,  23 April 2009, Apple apps download meter hit a billion downloads. It took

This is the age of  blogosphere. Now we have so many ways to be part of internet through blogs and social networking sites. There are many websites provides blogs and spaces and it is growing like anything.

But there were days where only very few offer such services to create sites. Yahoo GeoCities is one among them.

Now Yahoo GeoCities no longer accept new accounts. Yes, it is closing down. The message from GeoCities is given below.

Goodbye GeoCities

But not sure, what will happen to the existing accounts. It just says that “GeoCities will close later this year”. The following is the one given in Yahoo GeoCities help centre.

“Existing GeoCities accounts have not changed. You can continue to enjoy your web site and GeoCities services until later this year. You don’t need to change a thing right now — we just wanted you to let you know about the closure as soon as possible. We’ll provide more details about closing GeoCities and how to save your site data this summer, and we will update the help center with more details at that time”

Also read : Yahoo said Goodbye to RSS Feeds

Famous actor Ashton Kutcher became the first user of social networking site Twitter to have more than One Million followers.

CNN and Britney are in second and third places respectively.

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