Google and AOL Connect Gmail, Gtalk and AIM
Google and AOL have taken their instant messaging partnership to a new height with almost complete interoperability among AIM, Gmail and Google Talk. Now Google’s users can invite their AIM buddies to chat just by entering their AOL screen names, even if they don’t have or use an AIM account themself. This has been implemented in all… |
21 keyboard shortcuts for Google Talk (GTalk)
Google Talk – the official client for Google’s Chat has won over many hearts already with it’s sleek and intuitive interface. Although it lacks in various features such as Video Chat, Google talk is still used by many. In this article we will tell you about 21 keyboard shortcuts in Google Talk (GTalk) that save… |
How to manually change your status to ‘Idle’ in Google talk?
Google Talk currently enables us to change our status to either Available or Busy. But sometimes, we might just want to take a break and appear to be ‘away’ to our friends even when we are not. The default time to become Idle in Google Talk is 10 minutes. But with the help of a… |
‘Show Current Music Track’ Google Talk workaround for winamp
Updated your Winamp Player to version 5.5? Want to ‘Show your current track’ in Google Talk? Can’t? Read On!! It’s a small bug, Google Talk has a unique way of working with the Winamp player, considering the rest of the messengers work quite flawlessly with Winamp. Google Talk uses the ‘winamp.m3u’ file to ‘get’ the… |
Want to stay Invisible on Google Talk? Read On..
Google Talk is getting cozier. You can now stay invisible right from your Google Talk client. This feature currently is available on Google Talk, Labs Edition. Even though the Labs Edition was launched long back, it still has not gained much popularity considering the fact that it is available for download only from Google Labs. |
How To access GTalk on Pidgin if GTalk is blocked by your internet service provider
Here is a nice workaround that lets you login to the GoogleTalk clent via Pidgin. Right Click on your Google Account in Pidgin and click on modify. Then select the Advanced tab. In the dialog box that opens, Check the “Force Old (port 5223) SSL” option. |