. I wondered what is this new thing??? Egzactly @ that moment, our Shashi pinged me and asked, did you check Gmail’s video and voice chat. I Googled it immediately and installed Gmail’s Video-Voice chat feature and started enjoying it!!!

All these days, whenever I wanted to video chat, I had to login into yahoo! or skype; but now I can do that in Gmail. When I tried I found, it is easy to install and use, with high quality audio and video. To try this new feature you just need to

1 . Download the plug-in from http://mail.google.com/videochat

2. Install it

3. Restart the browser

4. Logon to your Gmail

5. Choose one of your friends

6. Click on “Video & more” option from the left bottom of the chat window

7. To view larger video you can either click on pop-out icon or view full screen icon

Have a look @ all these things in action in Google’s official video right below

Google says, they have just started to roll out Gmail Voice and video chat for both PCs and Mac and no need to worry if you don’t see it right away as it could take a day or so for this new feature to available in all Gmail and Google accounts.

Following are some of the things that I came across while using this new feature,
1. You can’t video chat with more than one person at a time – Yahoo! has it.
2. No call conferencing – Skype rocks here!!!
3. Gmail says, “Even if your friend doesn’t have a video camera, you can still make a voice call or a 1-way video call.” I wasn’t able to make 1-way video chat.

I am sure Google will come up with all these features soon and after God, the next thing will be Google in this world.

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ISRO has conceptually developed a sun mission and named it ADITYA, the first space based Solar Coronagraph intended to study corona.

As per ISRO Chairman G. Madhavan Nair, Aditya has been approved and its operations would begin soon. Sun mission is very critical and one of its kind in the global space research.

Though the exact date and time is not yet confirmed, ISRO is planning to launch ADITYA during next high solar activity period.

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Chandrayaan means Moon Craft, in Sanskrit.

Now, India is all set to launch its first unmanned mission to moon, CHANDRAYAAN-1 on Wednesday, 22nd October 2008. It will be launched from The Satish Dhawan Space Centre, about 10 minutes after sunrise using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV). The objective of this 3.8 Billion (INR), (US$ 83 Million) mission is to survey the lunar surface, at least for a period of two years, to produce a complete map of its chemical characteristics and 3-D topography. 1.5 meter cuboid shaped lunar craft will be orbiting around moon, about 100 KM above the lunar surface over a period of two years.

Chandrayaan will be carrying 11 payloads.
1. Terrain Mapping Camera (TMC)
2. Hyper Spectral Imager (HySI)
3. Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument (LLRI)
4. High Energy X-ray Spectrometer (HEX)
5. Moon Impact Probe (MIP)
6. Chandrayaan-1 X-ray Spectrometer (C1XS)
7. Smart Near-IR Spectrometer (SIR-2)
8. Sub Kev Atom reflecting Analyser (SARA)
9. Radiation Dose Monitor Experiment (RADOM)
10. Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (MiniSAR)
11. Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3)

Out of these eleven payloads, first 5 are designed and developed in India by Indian Scientists, 3 from European Space Agency, two from United States and one from Bulgaria.

People from the lowest to the highest level are working round the clock with the great excitement for the success of this complex mission.

Wishing ALL THE BEST for the successful execution of India’s 1st mission to moon.

Click on the following link to watch the interesting video about Chandrayaan.

Chandrayaan

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Sounds interesting? Want to try this new feature?

1. Go to Google labs in your mail settings
2. Enable Mail Goggles, and save changes.
3. Go to General tab, in Settings and select the day and time, when goggles should be active. (Friday and Saturday 10PM to 4 AM will be default days and time)
4. You can also set the difficulty level of your maths problem here.

When I tried this feature I came across these things.

1. After enabling the feature, I tried to sent a mail and got one pop-up box with 5 maths problems, with a time limit of 60 seconds. When I answered all of them correctly and clicked send button the box disappeared and mail was sent.

2. This time I purposely answered one question wrong and hit send button, and I was shown a message “WATER AND BED FOR YOU. OR TRY AGAIN”, with 5 more simple math problems to answer in another 60 seconds.

3. One interesting thing that I found out during this, if I solve the problems one time then I will be allowed to send as many emails as I want to, even after 15 – 20 mins. But this was not the case when I signed out and again signed in. This time I was asked to answer 5 math problems before sending a mail. Same thing happened when I switched browsers.

You wanna try it???

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It tells the user from which IP address last access was made, at what time and date. This enables the user to know if some one has gained access and can be used to troubleshoot unauthorized account activity.

When you click on Detail a window pops up with 3 columns which includes last 5 login details, with access type, IP address from which logged in and the date/time. Also if you are logged in concurrently in two different locations, you can signout from all other seeions except current session by clicking sign out all other sessions. Now you may ask, if the hacker or the person at some other location can log in again. If that’s your concern then, there is one more link from where you can change your password and security questions.

If you still have doubts please contact google

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