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Gtalk adds Invisible Mode

Google Operating System blog reports addition of Invisible mode in Gtalk.

The blogpost says

Now you can be logged in to Gmail Chat and see if your contacts are online, but they won’t be able to see you’re online.

Invisible on Gtalk

However, this feature is available only with new version of Gmail and if you are simultaneously using the desktop or any other flavor of Gtalk, your status change won’t happen.

Gtalk Invisible on Gmail

[Via : Google Operating System ]

How to detect Invisible users in Gtalk?

1.) Start a new chat with the intended user. 

2.) Set the chat to off the record so that it doesn’t get logged to the gmail account.

3.) Send a message to the user. If the user is online and invisible, the message will be delivered.

4.) If the user is offline, you will get an error message indicating that the user is offline.

With the above mentioned four steps, you can identify if a user is invisible or is indeed offline on Gtalk. 

I really wish this feature turns up on Gtalk desktop client as well.

[Update] Now Gtalk over gmail also allows Video and voice chat. Read Gmail Launches Voice and Video Chat.

Also read: Gmail Launches Voice and Video Chat.
[How-To] Change your display language in Gmail

How-To] Create Group Mailing Lists in Gmail.

 

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Cheers

Vaibhav

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43 Responses to “Gtalk adds Invisible Mode”

  1. I don’t have already the new version of Gmail. It is normal ?

  2. How to get the newer version?

  3. I really need to know how i can get the new version of GMAIL. It just wont happen. How is it that only some people get to use the new version?
    Please reply !

  4. Hi Mariah,
    Thanks for reading the post and commenting. Well, new version of Gmail is in the process of being rolled out and will soon be available to all users. As of now its only available to a select users. Also, another interesting point to note is that this is available only for IE7 and Firefox 2 onwards. So kindly ensure that your browser versions are correct.
    Cheers

  5. Hii..are u intrested in exchanging link with me??plz comment …i’ll add u

  6. i need it urgently could you plz tell how become invisible on gtalk while being online.

    i will be grate ful to you

  7. Good. Finally Google wakes up!…now when are you launching ability to see video with a voice call? :)

  8. i still unable to make invisible in galk…??

  9. still unable to make invisible in galk…??

  10. the invisible mode works only in the chat option in your GMAIL, and not GTALK.
    don’t know why they haven’t extended it to gtalk :(

  11. hey contact me at saru1990@gmail.com.
    i ll giv u the link 2 download..
    [:)]

  12. How can I find the guys who r all in invisible mode

  13. invisible is good.

  14. Gtalk invisible mode is a real hassle. I use gtalk in my iphone where I set the status as invlsible.
    If someone checks my status(including me in my laptop), it says null as the status.

    Not sure if it is a bug

  15. Isn’t it strange that the new ersion of gtalk is available to only few users. Was there any lucky draw by google or wat? It sounds weird..

    How and when can we set invisible modeoption on gtalk?

  16. [...] is an interesting move by Gmail which earlier allowed users to have fun with more emoticons and invisible mode for Gtalk inside Gmail. Gmail Video [...]

  17. [...] Gtalk adds Invisible Mode [...]

  18. Pls help if anyone knows as how to switch to ‘invisible’ mode in GTalk..

  19. I really need to know how i can get the new version of GMAIL. It just wont happen. How is it that only some people get to use the new version?
    Please reply !

  20. i want the orkut chat option!!!!!!!

  21. i want to know how to use gtalk invisible

  22. hey invisible mode does’t work with gtalk

  23. Invisible mode works in Gmail n Orkut…..either use latest version of Mozilla i.e. Firefox 3 or Internet Explorer 7…to get it work perfectly.

    But now the trick to know if an user is invisible or not ain’t work any more….perhaps fixed by google…..lets try find a new method…

  24. [...] Gmail Chat had added the invisible feature using which one could stay invisible on Gtalk and also  voice and video chat together using Gmail chat ( Gtalk in Gmail). Image: Watch Videos [...]

  25. U can download and install G-Talk Labs Edition in order to stay invisible as well as try out group chat..

  26. i want to know how to make invisible not to all contact person. want to invisible only to special people.

  27. you can’t go off the record now of the person is invisible! so you have to stay off the record all the time or you can’t understand whether he is invisible or not!

  28. [...] Talk included within Gmail does have the option which lets you get invisible on Google Talk but when it comes to the stand alone desktop client for Google talk, you dont have much options. [...]

  29. ohh please I dont know why you claim it as a bug in gmail status … it aint a bug thatz the way the protocol work.

    anyways, here is a better method.

    finally a way to detect invisible user in gmail without sending them any message, check out my blog

    http://sharathb814.blogspot.com/2009/05/find-invisible-users-in-gmail-gtalk.html

    Thanks,
    Sharath

  30. Hi is it possible somehow to block an email address in Gmail? i know i can create a filter so that the mails go directly to my trash can but i want to block the emails from coming into my account from a particular address. I dont even want them in the thrash can, And also maybe if possible also have gmail send an email to the sender that the message could not be delivered like in Hotmail it gives you that message when your inbox is full and someone sends you an email.

    Is this not possible in Gmail? Because ive been searching and couldnt find anything

  31. Pankaj Kadian on June 18th, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    its not so sir i sent the mail to my frnd but its not show he is not recive ur msg and so on and he is also off line so tell me other solution for this

  32. thank you it is working

  33. [...] Gtalk adds Invisible Mode [...]

  34. did you see this yahoo invisible detector? http://www.ymsgr.net is 100% accurate . try it

  35. this trick no more works! google has patched it!!!!

  36. yes google has pached this

  37. yahoo has exactly that. it’s called “stealth settings”

  38. like george, i use http://www.ymsgr.net ! it’s very very good !

  39. Here is a perl script to find invisible users in gmail. It checks for all users in your contacts. You dont need to send any offlines in this method.
    http://blog.sriunplugged.com/linux/find-invisible-users-in-gmail/

  40. write some easy words to undrestand

  41. [...] friends and followers on Google Talk and many a times the only way to avoid answering people is by setting up yourself in Invisible mode in Gtalk or setting up a busy tag. During such moments, one always gets a feel for the missing [...]

  42. i want google invissible

  43. here is a nice alternative , you can use this invisible detector

    http://www.who-is-invisible.co.cc

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