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Well, the email address thing was a fake, but Opera have put up a form now to get your free registration codes. As a side note, it only seems to work if you check the box to subscribe to the Opera newsletter. This page is valid for today only!

Here are a couple of posts about tweaking Google Talk. Nothing too ground breaking, but Talk has not been out very long, don’t forget. Google Talk Secrets! – [InitialDawn] Google Talk Tweaks – [PrincessFrozen.com] Google Talk and a Tip! – [Game Paused]

I have finished upgrading the site to b2evolution 0.9.0.12. Everything should work fine, and nothing should have been lost in the process, but if you notice anything that isn’t right, please let me know in the comments.

Update here Coming to me via Chris Pirillo, there is a note on the Download.com page for Opera 8 saying: Note: For one day only, you can get an ad-free version of Opera. Simply e-mail registerme@opera.com to obtain a registration code. This offer is valid from 12 a.m. Tuesday, August 30 to 12 a.m. Wednesday, [...]

I am being hit with a whole heap of trackback spam today. I think I have cleaned most of it out though, blacklisting some domains along the way. Good thing b2evolution (the CMS package I use for this site) has really great Antispam tools. I would recomend this package to anyone looking to start a [...]

Infinity Plus points out that Google is advertising for a “Sr. Video Conference Engineer” on Yahoo! HotJobs. The position could be for a Google Talk video messaging system, but probably just to manage Google’s internal video conferencing network. Time will tell. I’m almost sick of hearing about Google Talk…

I don’t know about the rest of the world, but the media in Australia is doing some really bad reporting of Google Talk. The stories on the news are making out like Google is the first to implement any kind of voice communication on the internet – this is obviously not true. I am a [...]

I stand corrected, in a way, by Michael Robertson. Google have announced that they are opening up the Google Talk service to other companies for interoperability. Although this doesn’t mean much now (as I can still only talk to those two other people), it may push the other IM companies to open up their systems [...]

I installed Google Talk (beta), and overall it looks pretty nice. There is one thing though, I only know two other people that are using it right now! You need to have a Gmail account to use it, and it will only talk to other Gmail users. To me, that is crazy. The IM market [...]

I’ve been so busy lately, I’ve been neglecting the site badly. But no more! I’m definitely going to up the posting again. To start, here is an incredible post from Engadget, detailing the tech life in the 80s… Read – [via Engadget]