Archives Tag: Google Talk
Talk About Vista Compatibility
You’ve been asking whether Google Talk will work on Windows Vista. Ask no more — today we’re releasing an update that makes it compatible with Vista. You don’t have to do anything — you’ll get the new update automatically… Let the product updates begin as we see a new phase of software development swoop in and take the world by storm as products are now beginning to be compatible with Windows Vista.
Full StoryFeature Highlight: Talking with style
Google Talk has a lot of cool features, here is the highlight for one of them. Changing Styles You can change the different styles to how the chats are actually displayed. This is rare among instang messenger clients from what I’ve seen. This is just another feature highlight for a Google product.
Full StoryGtalk status in Gmail
Browsing some some more of my Gmails, I noticed another small addition. You can now see someone’s status on Gtalk within the Gmail interface. This is pretty nice for easy communication. It really seems like Google is utilizing Gtalk a lot more with Orkut and now Gmail. EVen before though, you could talk to people with Gmail, I really don’t think as many people were using it as there might be now.
Full StoryHurry, Time to Orkut!
Orkut — the Google social networking site — has officially been released to the public. While before you could only sign-up with an invitation, it is now open to everyone. With the new release of Orkut to everyone, Google has also integrated Google Talk into the platform. This makes it very easy to communicate with anyone using Orkut. So what makes Orkut stand out from other
Full StoryOff the Record
Here’s another hidden secret of Google Talk. While most of us know that Google Talk allows you to store all your chats in your Gmail account, it has another nice hidden feature. You can go “off the record”, also meaning that you don’t record that part of the chat session to your Gmail acccount if you have it set to save all chats to Gmail. Yet another great sneaky feature of Google Talk that not many people know about.
Full StoryStart Sending and Start Receiving
Google Talk has enhanced the platform to be able to send messages whether or not the user is online. Messages will now be stored for a later time when that user logs in. This is very similar to how ICQ works and I think it’s a great feature to have. It’s like e-mail, but with less work and less to keep track of for small notes. GoogleTalk
Full StoryThe Secrets of Google Talk
Not many people use Google Talk, therefor not many people know of all the cool features. Talk is not nearly as wide-used as AOL Instant Messenger or ICQ or MSN Messenger. So what are some of the great hidden features (not really hidden, just unknown) of Google Talk? Here’s a small list of things I really like: Easy window-management for the different conversations Message-grouping when talking Integrated into Gmail — so essentially anyone can use it with ease Chat history — the chat sessions can be saved directly to your Gmail account and are searchable These are just a few of the great features of Google Talk. But don’t take my word for it, go download it and try it for yourself.
Full StoryGoogle’s “Colorful” Campus
Google’s at it again — just like they took a Yahoo! Director — they also stole away a top AIM developer from AOL. Justin Uberti to be exact. Justin has some insights about his first impressions of Google and the campus. I expect this to take Google Talk to the next level and become more of a standard in the chatting universe. I personally have started using Google Talk a little bit more lately anyway. I’m hoping that within the next year I can move over to it completely.
Full StoryTalk to Speex
Google Talk has released support for the Speex protocol. I’ve never personally use Speex (or heck, even heard of it), but it’s an industry leading open-source voice codec. This will help provide developers a better route to developing software and using the platform. Google Talk
Full StoryAnyone Can Talk
Google Talk is now open to the world. You do not just need a GMail account to use it. You can simple create a Google account and you’re all set to go.
Full StoryHappy Happy Birthday
A year ago today it was Google Talk’s birthday. It’s come around again that it’s the birthday time.
Full StoryTalk to GMail About It
GMail now has the voicemail functionality which will allow you to leave voicemails for other GMail members. How do you even get the voicemail to another user? Google Talk. Google Talk’s voicemail feature allows your friends and contacts to send a voice message to your Gmail account. Voicemails show up as special messages in your Inbox, where Gmail’s built in Flash voicemail player lets you listen to them without having to launch an external application – just click the Play button in the conversation view. This looks a lot like it might even be moving to a corporate platform style to where you can easily integrate voicemails, email, calendars, and more, all into one platform. Outlook already has the feature to integrate into phone systems and listen to voicemails over email, similarly now does GMail.
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