Google News: themes for Gmail and Orkut integrated with instant messaging
Gmail
The Official Gmail blog has announced a series of themes to customize the page and free email. The package features 30 options, with modified versions and colorful logos.
The novelty is not immediately available to all users, but will be implemented gradually. To modify your page, go to Settings (settings) and look for the tab Themes (themes).
Orkut
Chat window will appear at the bottom of the screen
The Google also announced that it will gradually provide a tool to Brazilian users to chat integrated into Orkut. The social network has worked with Google Talk, but the novelty simplifies access and use the chat.
The chat service will automatically appear at the foot of the page, as already happens with competitor Facebook. Thus, viewers can navigate through Orkut and chat online using a single window. Users can choose whether you want to appear online or offline.
The contacts are shared between the services offered by the company - this means that the user can talk to someone Orkut Gmail when browsing the social network. "Google has a single list of friends to chat. It is consistent between GTalk, Gmail and Orkut now. You can chat with all your friends in any of these sites, "the company said the G1 through its press office.
"Now you can know what your friends are online while you and talk to them in real time by chat, as you already do in Gmail for some time," the company announced.
In the same statement, Google also said the availability of a tool to facilitate meetings on Orkut offline. This is the application events , which allows Internet users to make an appointment, choose friends who will participate and determine whether this information is public, private and seen only by the guests.
