Archive for the 'Gtalk' Category

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.

However, this feature is available only with new version of Gmail and if you are simultaneously using the desktop [...]

How-To: Listen Internet Radio in your GTalk,MSN/Live IM or Yahoo IM

 
Yes, this is true. Google Talk/Yahoo IM/MSN/Live IM can be used to listen to Internet Radio as well. This is possible using GTalk2VoIP service.In order to do so, all you need to is follow the steps mentioned below:

Add service@gtalk2voip.com to your contact list. In case you are not comfortable with adding a contact in [...]

iGoogle: Make your own Gadgets.

iGoogle gadget’s are the talk of the town these days. With more than 25,000 gadgets available for iGoogle, the plethora of choices is sometimes overwhelming.
However, there are times, when one doesnt actually get the gadget of choice. To cater to this, Google has a Gadget creating wizard  which allows user to create his/her own gadget, using seven [...]

Step by Step Guide for Creating Google Custom Search Engines

Tech publisher O’Reilly has come out with a nice write up on making a dynamic search engine for the topic of choice. The write up is essentially a step by step tutorial for creating Google Custom Search Engines.
[Excerpt from the website]
What Is a Custom Search Engine?
A custom search engine (CSE) tells Google which sites to [...]

Google Acknowledges Orkut Bug

It gives me great pleasure that the effort I had put up in writing about the bug on Orkut has got results.
I received the mail from Google today appreciating about the post and would like to share this with you.
Hi Vaibhav,
My name is Tanushree Baruah and I work for the product and marketing
teams at Google. [...]