Google Apps Hacks

126 GOOGLE APPS HACKS

HaCK 51:

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Surprise your recipients by adding some pseudographical glitz to

your email signature.

Google’s email client doesn’t ship with a native way to add graphic signatures. Even if it would, most

email clients receiving your message are congured so that they won’t display graphics by default

anyway (at least not if the image is externally hosted, instead of being included in the mail itself).

But there’s a workaround for this: you can use Unicode symbols , which render as graphics

but are just text characters.

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You can use any Unicode character you want, but a couple of symbols create especially good-looking

signatures. The easiest way to nd them is to copy and paste the character you like from a character

table found online. Here are some good pointers to get you started digging for the right “icon”:

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URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Symbols

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URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_%28symbol%29

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URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbat

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URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscellaneous_Technical_%28Unicode%29



Miscellaneous symbols



Arrow symbols



Dingbat symbols



Technical symbols