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GMail Chat...err...hack

Feb 13, 2006 12:13AM PST

For all us non-US citizens eager to get our hands on the lovely chat features within GMail all we can do it wait till our Google overlords deem our little countries worthy...unless you hack, well change your settings.

Simply change your language to English(US) and low and behold you now have Chat.

Thanks to my buddy Steve Haynes for pointing that out to me after days of bragging that he had chat and I didn't.

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That's funny
Feb 13, 2006 1:45AM PST

and it's sad. It used to be that the world envied us for our innovations and freedoms. Now they rush to have chat and email integrated in their web browdsers.

take a breath before replying. Just posting to be humorous.

Scott

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Does it actually work for everyone?
Feb 13, 2006 2:37AM PST

On the about the google chat page on Google, it shows a messenger window with people chatting in it. However, the only experience that I have had with it is it only sends an email to the other person.