GMail and the Talk Popups — Part 2

I searched in the options. I searched the internet for hacks. And as far as I can tell, I'm not the only one. Doh. The damn setting is just hidden at the bottom of the GMail screen. What a silly location for a setting everybody is looking for.

GMail : Disable Chat Popups

For the first time, I find GMail quite annoying with something : those freaking Chat popups. I want to send and read mail damnit, I don't want to talk. Did I miss something ? I cannot find any option to disable those damn popups. For the moment, the only workaround I found is this simple Greasemonkey script. Now I just…

Sending an exe file with Gmail : zip the .exe, rar the resulting .zip, now zip the .rar and rename it to .doc … Sometimes things are so simple with GMail …

Update: ok, this was more a joke when I was upset than a real tip. Since this page gets some referral from search engines with people really looking for Gmail tips, here is a much more simple way to send your .exe files :

Rename to yourfile.-exe (or yourfile.-zip)

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La saison 1 de Lost vient de se terminer … C'est un scandale. Ils osent appeler ça une "saison" ?

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