Social networking in Gmail - Gbuzz!

While you are working at office, if you see your friends' messages in your Inbox, it will cheer up you, is it not? Google Buzz does that for you. It is a social networking application included in the Gmail account. With it you can share ideas within your friends circle or make them public for viewing by all. Photos and websites can be brought into it and viewed whenever needed.
Using Gbuzz! In Gmail inbox click on the tab, Buzz found in the left sidebar. Click on the message box, Save your profile first and begin texting and sending.
Disabling Gbuzz! If you find that your privacy suffers, you can Turn off Buzz in Confirm your Buzz setup or click on Settings tab on the right upper corner of Inbox, click on the Buzz tab shown at the last. In the Disable Buzz, click on Disable Google Buzz and then Save Changes.
Recently, measures are being taken to make Gbuzz more conducive and congenial.

Emoticon :) conversion into J

I find the alphabet 'J' at the end of all the emails sent by my son. On inquiring about it he said that he did not send anything like that! Later I remembered that in the past he used to write always a smiling emoticon :) at the end of his all snail mails. Only that smiling emoticon is converted into 'J' while the email is in the process of sending! I confirmed that with my son. The question is how and why the emoticon is converted into 'J'. I first intended to end this post with a request to the readers to respond to that with a reply. But an hour's search and re-search in Google's search results provided me with the answer! My son is sending his emails from Microsoft Outlook and I am receiving them in Gmail. The emoticon :) that he sends is converted into 'J' by Gmail as it does not recognize it! That's all! You see here --> how and why of it!
I cannot say I discovered first this conversion of emoticon. Read from the links below others' experience, expressions and advices about it!
Blog post of Technet.com
What does J mean!
Techy.dstro.com
Groups.Google.com

Free SMS through 160by2

Communication in social human race has become an essential item and also a fashion nowadays. There is a great demand for the communication tools such as SMS. Then it is needless to say about the demand for SMS when it is available free! Register at this website: 160by2. Get your password sent to your mobile phone. Download the website's mobile application. Now free messages consisting of 80 characters can be sent to your friend's mobile phone from your computer 10 times a day, and like this messages can be sent to another four persons in a day! 50 free messages per day totally!