Olympics is around the corner and lot of web surfers are searching for Olympics related information on the internet. Well, Google is here to help you.
To get latest information regarding various (more…)
Google Talk just got better with a cool new feature ‘Chatback’. It allows your blog or site visitors to chat with you directly without any hassle of signups or email requirements.
You need a Google account to use this feature, however yours reader don’t. When someone visit your site, they will see a badge showing your online status (available, busy, offline) and, if you’re available, they can just click and start chatting.
Chatback uses the web-based Google Talk Gadget so your visitors don’t need to download anything. It opens in a new window so (more…)
Ever wanted to chat with a friend from another country who does not understand your language or you do not understand his/her native language?
From now on… this can not be an excuse or PROBLEM for NOT chatting with friends with different language orientation on Google Talk.
Google has launched translation bots to facilitate ‘Real-time’ language translation while chatting on Gtalk. For starters… “A bot is a piece of software that acts as a chat contact and provides some fun or useful functionality”. Procedure of using these bots is real easy. (more…)
Gmail chat has new features of rich emoticons and group chat. Now you can splash those colorful smiles to express yourself while chatting.
Emoticons were introduced in Gtalk gadget few months ago and now are being introduced in Gmail chat.
For using new emoticons, check out a smiley face in the bottom right-hand corner of your chat window.
You can still use regular emoticon keyboard shortcuts, such as 
or =P, but this menu lets you select the style of the emoticons you send. (more…)
Google Talk does not provide built-in functionality to allow you to control your idle status. There are times when you want to use messenger and be online, but without letting others know about this. Seems like impossible in Google talk, now made possible by gAlwaysIdle.
As gAlwaysIdle states, “your status is your business so it only makes sense that you should be able to control it”. After installing this small application, you get more options in the menu (see pic) that appears on right click on Google Talk icon. (more…)
Chat Rooms is very common feature of Yahoo Messenger, hey… but what about Google Talk. Well, it seems Google is not interested in adding new features or update Gtalk.
But, there is an alternative way to add chatroom to Google Talk and enjoy Chatting. This can be easily done using ‘PartyChat’
PartyChat is like a group chat, a persistent chat-rooming for Google Talk. Here is the procedure for the same:
1. Login into Google Talk. (more…)
