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This thread consists of all the releases of GigaSmilies Software

What is GigaSmilies?

GigaSmilies is a free smilies application that lets you to use different smilies on Bulletin Boards(forums), Blogs and social networking sites like Orkut.


Latest Version:

GigaSmilies v1.2 - Ultimate Edition

WebVersion Update: For Linux and MAC users.


Previous Windows Versions:

• GigaSmilies v1.0 - Yahoo Edtion

• GigaSmilies v1.1 - Yahoo Edition

• GigaSmilies v1.1b - Yahoo Edition (Bug Fix)

• GigaSmilies v1.2 - Ultimate Edition

System Requirements:
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Sempron
256 MB SDRAM at 133 Mhz
VGA Display
Windows 98, XP and Vista
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0
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Official Site

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Developers: Me and Charan

EDIT: Comments are Welcome and please use it and report the Bugs! Though we have taken the at most care..

Note: This work is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.

Thanks , the confusion is cleared now

lol.. thanks..... hey and this is not an alternative... coz we never copied the concept from that app ..

meh... go on dude. every other software has alternatives. just make sure you have better features. and ohh btw, I wont be working on it anymore I have got better project to work on

Nice work, Giga

Yes thats correct.. we developed it by our concept.. But now as this other application has come to the picture .. we may have to defend our work .. any way its protected by CC so no need to worry ..

now there is another problem .. What features we wanted to include in the next version is available in that application .. like exproting to < img > < /img > codes..

Yep co-incidence..

hmm.... yup! Me n my friend made that app.

just co-incidence that both got same idea ! lolz !!

Thanks anand bro!

@intelomkar, read charan's reply.. +1

Yea, it was his ( intelomkar's ) idea much before that topic was posted on CHIP.

Its his app, helped by a friend of his

He used to use a version just for himself... when people asked him... he made some improvements and released it

charan i think you both guys developed this

Thanks , but it was Gigacore who developed the software , I only gave tips and some routines , and did debugging .

just great ! keep going buddy

WO HO .. never knew there was another similar application.. .. Any way Myself or Gigacore absolutely didnot know about this before and I asure that Gigasmilies was not inspired by that software.. And also we both are not members of the Chip forum.

BTW did you create that application?

Awesome , Superb Work
Thank you very much!

-Nice, no need to download!

ONE Suggestion :

you can make it like if u click on a simile it will automatically copy
and the user can paste it

GigaSmilies for Linux & MAC user is new version called as "WebVersion".

WebVersion is not just limited to Linux and MAC users.. Even windows users can use this, if one doesnt have good hardware and has no .NET Framework installed.

So here is the LINK to GigaSmilies WebVersion.

How to use: Click on the text in front of smiley u want to insert, copy and paste it!

You can also find the link to WebVersion in right pane of the official GigaSmilies Homepage.. which looks this:

Requirments:
Any Latest Web Browsers

Note: WebVersion is still in initial phase. Developments will be done soon

Comments are Welcome and please use it and report the Bugs! Though we have taken the at most care..

Special Thanks to Charan for giving me tips and tricks through out the entire project.

Note: This work is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.

I must say...

Nice work Santosh & Charan.
Keep it up guys.

hey giga my problem with v1.1 is now fixed with v1.1
sorry for that Words

@ naveen.. ok

@ azzu.. 1.1b ?

giga one suggestion...

use the big button for the commonly used similies like

so that it will be easy to click .. instead of searching ...

ya nice work guys keep goin on...

thanks guys.. and even the credits should also been given to charan too...

my prob solved.yahooo i formatted my comp.........gd software giga

start a common thread like "GigaSmilies" and update the first post alone .. there by all can know whts new..

i never knew u were so good at creating software..

superb dudde... keep it going...
awesome..

Thanks guys


Thanks for notifying that, to me...

Nice work gigacore and charan...

Gigasmiles must be included in the upcoming Digit issue

Amazing work, Charan & Giga

BTW- I found a small spelling mistake. Check the image

w00t!!!

whoa

great dude.

updated on my blog also http://www.techjunkiez.com/index.php...hosh-launched/

Ok
The application is written in Visual basic 2005.We have used Visual Basic 2005 Express edition for the development. As you may already be knowing this is a windows forms application. The whenever a button is pressed the respective BB code gets generated and is copied to the clipboard thats the logic. There is no third party tools used. All the components used are inbuilt in VS 2005 express edition.

great charan and gigacore

Thanks, i had the idea of that. Shouldnt be difficult enough. I know VB 6....no idea of Visual Basic 2005 though .

IS the Tray Menu, Tray Notification, all that stuff easy to do in VB 2005 ?

Yes its absolutely easy to do all these stuff..

Just add the Tray Notification component into the form and select a icon,

Add a Context menu into the project, edit the list in that and link it to the notify icon and its done.. i.e., you will get a right click menu for the notify icon

Amazing work @giga, @charan

@ cryus.. the credit is also forwarded to charan..

thanks

great work.

u should hav compressed the package using winrar.it becomes 243KB then

@ utsav.... i knew that... but didnt.. coz few people wont use winrar

i hav added it to my blog also http://www.techjunkiez.com/index.php...hosh-released/

thanks for that utsav

wow new version smilies with name.
good work
but where is the > B-) cool http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/...ticons7/16.gif emotion???
Gigasmilies rocks

OK, my apologies for COMPLETELY missing this one! I must say... U guys rock! Super stuff Charan and Gigacore! Well done!

woospe.. sorry to miss this one but it wasnt me ..

Thanks

thanks asfaq

Gigacore, this time, its working well...

Why don't you make it online?? I mean, a browser window opens in which all the smilies are present. On clicking anyone of it, the same work is done. This way, a user can access the smilies from anywhere and you can make it platform independent.

I'm Glad to Launch my new version of GigaSmilies

GigaSmilies v1.1b - Yahoo Edition

Whats new in v1.1b ?

GigaSmilies v1.1b has been tweaked to give you more performance, stability and speed than v1.1. And one new Yahoo Smiley has been added. So we recommend you to upgrade now.

Screen Shot



Downloads:
GigaSmilies v1.1b - Yahoo Edition
Size - 322 KB

Description: This version contains 90+ Yahoo! Messenger Smilies with "Tray Mode" and with enhanced performance.

System Requirements:
Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Sempron
256 MB SDRAM at 133 Mhz
VGA Display
Windows 98, XP and Vista
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Click here to Download from my Official Site

Note: You can't use "Tray Mode" and "Full Mode" Simultaneously!
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Special Thanks to Charan for giving me tips and tricks through out the entire project.

Comments are Welcome and please use it and report the Bugs! Though we have taken the at most care..

DIGG This

I RECOMMEND TO USE TRAY MODE FOR OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE

Note: This work is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.

Good suggestion Lucky_star.....
+1 to it ..

I was expecting your new version soon
Gr8 dear....keep going

Wow!!!
Another version ...
Great work Giga
@offtopic:how many hours do u spend for Gigasmiles daily

Don't release so many edition so quickly...we will be confused.

Guys almost forgot check this out
http://digg.com/software/GigaSmilies
and digg for our santosh for his kind efforts for us and this forum and make his soft a little famous a small reward to thier Effort
hope to see moore from santosh nad charan

thanks Santhosh&Charan I'll try out.

Amazing work... Keep it coming...

^ thanks..


check out WebVersion for Linux and MAC:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75319

come on man, who said I'm not happy?

I use a prescott, so even a 1% increase is like revving up a 1000cc bike

Yup.. even i havent seen any CPU usage in tray mode or in idle...

still we will look at it as charan said..

if u are not happy u can use the new WebVersion for now

Guys Gigasmilies 1.1b runs on Suse Linux 10.3 ..

Make sure you have mono installed in your system. My suse installation has mono version 1.2.5 installed. I am trying to get Gigasmilies up and running in Ubuntu Gusty and Fedora 8 still no luck

How to run:
Open terminal and use the following command.



Know issues with Suse 10.3
1. Gif's are not animated.
2. In tray mode the menus expand outside the visible area which makes tray mode un-usable
3. Restoring from tray mode to full mode make the button look disabled ( looks gray scale ) .. but hovering the cursor over the buttons make the color reappear.

put my smilies yet?
I can give you more if you are intrested...

@Giga-Thanks for clearing out the doubt regarding the CPU usage. I'm using in tray mode now. Installed Y! messenger 9 beta. Those extra smilies are available only on the latest version and is not part of the hidden smilies shown on the yahoo page.

Same as blackpearl suggested... can u include the functionality to generate html codes so we can use those smilies on our blogs.

Nice thing u r doing there.

Thanks

U can see those smilies in 9 Beta... some call its hidden smilies in 8.. not sure.. any.. link here

1. Coz this is a .NET app.
2. All the smilies animate at once.. which makes further slow.. (only if u r on low speed processor.. u will feel the lag)
3. I recommend u to use tray mode. Coz smilies are branched out in the menu.. less smilies animate at once so less CPU usage.
4. We are working on this issue.. if u still feel its not ok. u can try and use WebVersion. (Specially made for Linux and MAC users)

@Giga and @Charan-Great work......... again One question. I find 6 new emoticons which is not available on Yahoo Messenger. Those being, "Don't want to see", "Rock On","Hurry up","Thumbs down","Wasn't me" and "Thumbs up". Also, what about the "Bee" emot? I'm using ver 8.1.0.421. Like Cyrus pointed out, the CPU usage
is quite high on my system as well. Especially in full mode. Could you please check out that issue?

^ nope sorry.. i am working on it..

read last few lines of first post

^ thanks..

@ naveen.. ok will create a dedicated thread soon

Is your software open source? I mean I want to do some modification. I want the BBCodes to be replaced by proper HTML codes so that I can use the smilies in my blog. I also want to transfer the smilies to my own server.

Atleast you can make a HTML code version. What do you say?

Good work guys.

nice application, I have reviewed it under my blog too

Giga a request..
Start a new thread... And update your first thread alone.let it be a centralised thread...i saw two thread one for windows and another for linux...
Just a request

ooooh i missed this thread completely.


but I LIKE IT I LIKE I LIKE I IT.
GREAT WORK DUDE!!

simply going gr8............
awesome...

ok devil..

nice prakash.. i hope u will use it

I can get to ur page via proxy only!what is wrong i am on dataone!

^OK>Now i understood dataone is not opening many websites,seems some work is going on,although proxy works fine yeah i tried,it is nice!

^^yea .

thanks for digging devil... and were u able to open it in linux ??

@ praka.. i tried it on ubuntu.. it opens fine man!

^^I opened it directly.

Dugg.

ok dude.. we will check it out

@ charan.. hey thats nice man.. atleast somehow it can be runned in openSUSE 10.3

it will be great if it runs in GG....

@ azzu.. we can disable a button when moves hovers it.. which looks unfair.. we will try

i must say
suggestion:create a link called as copy and when the user clicks it make the url automatically go to clipboard..
Ex:MSDN documentation..

GigaSmilies - Christmas Special is another WebVersion built for Windows, Linux and MAC users.

So here is the LINK to GigaSmilies - Christmas Special.

Whats New?

Christmas Special has 28 christmas smilies for forums.

Requirments:
Any Latest Web Browsers

Special Thanks to Charan for giving me tips and tricks through out the entire project.

Happy Holidays!

Note: This work is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.

Nice work,
How about adding new year's smilies too?

Regards,
ray

nice addition

Superb work

thank you guys!

Great work !

No offence, but why dont you post everything related to Gigasmilies in one thread

Thanks!

duh.... i forgot that.. will do it from next time.

why not makin an update feature in ur program only so that it updates itself.

anyway nice work.keep it up.

thank you

nice work Giga

thanks my friend

And gr8 job again.

Keep it up.

Awesome!! You two are unstoppable!! Congrats. Great going!

hey nice work.
thank you.
Keep it up.

Nice work again. Kudos to you both.

Exactly. It'll be more convenient and easy to search. Ask moderators to merge your other "GigaSmilies" threads into one and then update the first post whenever you make some changes and post about it in the thread (Bump the thread), so that we all can know about it.

Great work dude! Keep it going!

Thank you.

Hi!

We both are glad to announce our new version of GigaSmilies on our new dedicated GigaSmilies site this new year!

GigaSmilies is a free smilies application that lets you to use different smilies on Bulletin Boards, Blogs and social networking sites like Orkut.

GigaSmilies v1.2 - Ultimate Edition

Whats new in GigaSmilies v1.2 Ultimate Edition?

GigaSmilies v1.2 Ultimate Edition sports several new features. The major addition is the feature called "Smart Swap". And two smiley sets.



New Features:

• Smart Swap

• Aqua Smilies.

• New UI

• Code Generation (Selectable IMG, HTML, Orkut and URL tags)

• Settings Panel.

• Turn on/off Smart Swap from Settings, Status Bar and Tray Mode.

• Quick Smilies Set Selection from main window and Tray Mode.

What is Smart Swap?

Smart Swap is a new feature that lets u to insert smilies to bulletin boards without opening the application or from the tray mode. You just have to enter the GS Smiley Code, select it, copy it, the Smart Swap will copy the respective Smiley IMG code automatically to the clipboard and you can just paste on it! This will replace the smiley code with the [IMG] BB code. The Smart Swap works only with IMG tags and only in Tray Mode.

What is GS Smiley Code, where can I access it?

GS Smiley Code is the codes that have been set by default to each and every smilies in the application. You need to type the GS Smiley Code in forums to use Smart Swap. You can see the GS Smiley Code by taking the mouse pointer over any smiley in the main window.

How to use Smart Swap?

You can use Smart Swap only in Tray mode and for IMG tags. To use Smart Swap, you need to turn on Smart Swap feature from Settings, Status Bar or from the Tray Mode menu. After enabling the Smart Swap, switch to tray mode and then browse the forums. Whenever you feel like adding a smiley in the forum, just type the smiley code and select it, copy it and then paste on it. This will replace the smiley code with the IMG code.

For example, if you want insert this smiley , then you just want to type " : ) " (without the quotes and space) the GS Smiley Code and the select, copy and paste on it. And follow the steps below:

Step1:
Type the GS Smiley Code in the forum you want to insert. Here in this example I will teach you to insert this smiley .

For that smiley, the GS Smiley Code is : ) Just type the code and select it with your mouse or keyboard using shift + arrow keys.



Step 2:

Then copy it, give 1/2 second gap and paste on the selected GS Smiley Code (The Smiley IMG Code will be automatically copied by Smart Swap to ClipBoard). And paste on it. Now the respective Smiley IMG code will be replaced.



As you can see in the above image, the GS Smiley Code : ), is replaced with [IMG.]http://gigasmilies.googlepages.com/34a.gif[./IMG]

Turning Smart Swap on and off:

You can turn off Smart Swap from 3 places within the application.



1. You can turn on/off the Smart Swap option from settings.


2. By clicking on Smart Swap in the main window’s Status Bar.




3. From Tray Mode Menu




Note:

• Smart Swap works only for IMG codes to use with forums.

• It is recommended to turn off Smart Swap when it’s not in use.

• And it works only in Tray Mode

Switch Smiley Set:
You can easily switch between smiley set from main window and from tray mode.





Switching between smiley tags:

This version lets you to use smilies not just in forums, but in Blogs, Websites and in social networking sites like Orkut or you can just select the regular URL tag.

You can switch between tags from Settings and from the main window’s status bar.

From Settings:


From Status Bar:
You can switch between tags by clicking on the “Tag Selected” notification in main window’s status bar. You can right click to select previous tag and left click to select next tag.


Downloads:

Visit Official Site For Download and more information.

For Linux and MAC users, Aqua Smilies of Ultimate Edition can be found in this WebVersion

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Developers: Me and Charan

Beta Testers: Vishal Gupta, Anirudh, Akshay and Utsav

Thanks to all the Beta Testers for reporing bugs and suggesting new things.

Request to MODS: Though there is a dedicated thread to gigasmiles. I've posted it in the tech news coz, posting a new information in a old thread wont gain much attention. So hereby I request any MOD to merge this thread with this thread's end after 3 days.

This work is now licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India License.

wow.. thanks for merging the threads @ mod/admin who did it

waiting giga for the NEW YEAR EDITION

Good work Santhosh.

hey great addition to the existing GigaSmilies buddy. Keep up the good work.
Regards.

Awesome Application. Thanks Giga.

thank u guys...!

check out the latest versions here:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75133

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=76018