wondering how to enable blocked chat in gmail ??
May 12, 2008
Block access to web based chat messengers and IM like gtalk , msn or yahoo in your office without blocking the whole site itself using the Hosts file.
For example in iGoogle there is an option to add these messenger modules(gtalk,msn,hotmail & yahoo). And with this trick you can block only these Messengers but not the whole IGOOGLE itself.
First of all,Open the hosts file located in C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc with your notepad.Add these following lines in the hosts file and save it.
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 chatenabled.mail.google.com
127.0.0.1 httpcs.msg.yahoo.com
Bang you are done !!!
More messengers can be blocked by adding the server address of the messengers to this file.With this the Gtalk module in the Gmail page is also blocked.
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Syed Aslam | May 15, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Hmm.. this seems a handy tool.. but where can it be used. Actually, we are even discouraged to use System.gc() method.. in order to prevent us from calling the garbage collector forcefully. In that case what purpose can this be solved. Ha, i think this tool will be more useful for the IDE developers than any of us.. i think.. correct me if I am wrong..
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Vivek Vijayagiri | June 19, 2008 at 4:48 pm
I just found out that if chat is disabled in gmail and if you r unable to enable using the option on the bottom of the home page of gmail then all you have to do is to click the ‘Older Version’ on the top right of the window! it makes the chat enable without doing anything else!