IM/Chat/Talk Posts

Christine Buske

Send SMS with Google Talk

Even when your friends are not logged into Google Talk, you can use it to send them messages. Instead of using Google Talk just for chatting, ...

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Peter Jalbert

Put Video In Google Talk

So you want video with your Google Talk, huh? Well, almost every other competing instant messaging client has it, while GTalk, for the longest time, has ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Using Gtalk To Chat In Different Languages

So you love Google talk and use it as your primary chat app every day. Sure it’s a cool IM tool which let’s you communicate with ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

How To Go Idle At Your Own Will in Gtalk

Google Talk, as we know has various status options and it allows us to customize them too, however it doesn’t have the idle option. Hence you ...

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Mark O'Neill

Google’s love-hate relationship with software

Google has just released a browser plug-in which allows you to view and use Google Earth inside your internet browser, whether it be Mozilla Firefox or ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Use multiple Google Talk accounts at the same time with Digsby

Many of us maintain more than one Google accounts for different purposes. You could easily open 2 Gmail accounts in 2 different browsers and use them ...

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Abhijeet Mukherjee

Google Talk Labs Edition- Pros And Cons

Google Talk Labs Edition is an experimental release of the Google Talk client. It has a nice interface and also brings in some new features. Here are ...

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Brian Wallace

How the Microsoft / Yahoo Merger Could Affect Google Socially

No doubt by now you have heard the unsolicited bid that Microsoft has made of $45 billion for Yahoo. Should Google be worried? Certainly, Microsoft/Yahoo will ...

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Mark O'Neill

How to open up multiple instances of Google Talk

The other day I started up another Google account so I can chat to business clients on Google Talk and keep it separate from my personal ...

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Mark O'Neill

Using Google Talk to IM home to Twitter

I’ve blogged about using Google Talk and Twitter together in the past but I figured it was worth briefly covering it again for the Google Tutor ...

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Peter Jalbert

Using Google Talk as Contact Manager

Here’s a great tip I found from the Loose Wire blog: how to use Google Talk as your contacts database. At first, it’s easy to overlook ...

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Mark O'Neill

Become multi-lingual with Google Talk

As someone who teaches English on a regular basis, I am very cynical of machines that claim to do perfect translations. Languages are full ...

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Mark O'Neill

Take a webcam picture with Google Talk

Google Talk has rolled out a small feature which allows you to update your chat picture with one taken from your webcam. This feature is especially good ...

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Mark O'Neill

Google Reader shared items – nice idea, badly thought out

I am a bit late to this party as I was away all day yesterday at a wedding but upon logging into my Google Reader today, ...

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Mark O'Neill

Gmail slowly starts to roll out AIM chat support

Holy Guacamole Batman! Hot on the heels of introducing colored labels, Gmail is now in the slow process of rolling out AIM chat ...

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Mark O'Neill

Google Talk – the unsurper of Trillian and Pidgin?

By Mark O’Neill Only a few weeks ago, I pondered if Google Talk may end up knocking Trillian and Pidgin off their multi-chat platform thrones, by embracing ...

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Mark O'Neill

There’s a new Gmail in town and it’s rooting tooting fast!

By Mark O’Neill Last night, my Gmail window suddenly logged off. Thinking it was just another Gmail beta snafu, I sighed and tried to log back in. ...

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Peter Jalbert

Easy Software Installation with Google Pack

Google Pack is simply a collection of free downloadable software that is specially chosen by Google for their users. The software included in Google pack were ...

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Peter Jalbert

Yahoo Messenger for Web vs. Google Talk for Web

I am a big fan of Instant Messaging. Though I must admit that I favor Yahoo Messenger more than any other IM clients, especially Yahoo Messenger ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Talk for the Web: Making Instant Messaging More Accessible to the Common User

Instant messaging is one of the most essential tools for online productivity nowadays. With brick-and-mortar businesses moving into the Internet and Internet businesses growing into the ...

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Peter Jalbert

How to use Google Talk without the Google Talk Client

Chatting has been one of the staple means of communication over the internet. Long before blogging and Twitter came along, chatting via IM or instant messages ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Talk For Your Mac?

Google has announced better support for the Macintosh platform, and Mac users around the world are excited to see what’s in store for us when Google ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google Sleeps With The Enemy

Internet heavyweights Google and eBay have announced a new deal that will have many wondering whether Google is sleeping with the enemy. While the new deal ...

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Peter Jalbert

New With Google Talk – File Sharing, Voice Mail and Music Status

The Google Talk team has been busy. True, GTalk is one of the more spartan instant messaging clients today, but this doesn’t mean the creators are ...

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Peter Jalbert

Google This Week

We’ve done it before, now we’re doing it again. Sometimes there are several things happening at the same time in the world of Google that a ...

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