Tag Archives: Internet

Google Talk Tweaking

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]

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Free Opera 8 For One Day Only!

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, [...]

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Video Chat Next for Google?

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…

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Terrible Media Coverage of 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 [...]

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Google Talk – Part 2

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 [...]

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Google Talk Too Late?

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 [...]

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Google Toolbar for Firefox

Just a quick note – Google have released a beta (like everything else they release) Firefox version of their toolbar.

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