Google Talk
 

http://www.google.com/talk/

Incredibly elegant in design, and incredibly shitty in simplicity. It's a paradox. Much like Google in general: I need Google to be all I can be but I don't want to trust Google with my entire online life. It's a nice fit. Now I have 5 of these ****ing IM clients (including Hello - which is also Google).

Re: Google Talk
 

Well, it's only another free email account you don't have to use.

Re: Google Talk
 

yeah, this is definelly cool.


I didnt like talk's interface and layout tho. cba to donload to see since there is no one i know to add and see how it works

Re: Google Talk
 

Not another! i only use msn or yahoo because my less computer literate friends do and i like to keep up!

Arg, background applications- oh for a nice X2 to help me out....

Re: Google Talk
 

You know, the voice call audio is pretty superb.

Re: Google Talk
 

Trillian for the win \o/


In other news.. Google buys out Microsoft

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GoogleOS would be pretty interesting. They've proved themselves as excellent engineers, and as they're more inclined towards Linux, they may make Linux a bit less shitty. But that's not going to happen. Westside.

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Google is going to make the OS obsolete according to this znet blogger article:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=1781

Re: Google Talk
 

Miranda IM.

With plugins and customizations, it can do lots of stuff:

• Accounts for ICQ, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo-Something, Skype, Google-Thingy (or not long until a plugin will be up), battle.net (nice, messages get relayed into games like StarCraft etc).
  
• Less RAM usage and better performance than some of the clients (ICQ for example).
  
• Set up accounts for websites (monitor changes), news-sites (RSS feeds), ping computers (online / offline warnings), weather (with nice icons), eMail-checker...
  
• Gimmicks: Better log files, see when people read your away/status-messages. Dynamically configured status-messages with winamp-song or the readers nickname.

Drawbacks:

• Not that easy to install and configure all plugins. Too many (untested or beta-) plugins tend to crash too often. Need to work out that stuff...
  
• Not standard-conform: Some people expect or imagine their messages to look exactly the same as they send them (font, color, size, smiley-icons). This is not always the case. Also newer features (MSN webcam chat) are implemented differently or not complete..
  

Screenie (very old, faked together to show all features, not that great anyway)...


Edit: Also AIM and IRC are supported... Interesting, to have a messenger-like interface for IRC...
All the graphics are customizable, but you have to spend some time to choose what you want.
Google-Talk is using the open-source-protocol "Jabber"

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Are people still playing star craft? I may buy it again!

Re: Google Talk
 

I am, sometimes. But only with friends I know.
Battle.net is full of people and games. Even the original one (without the add-on Brood War) is often played. Always games open (classic "low minerals" as well as "mucho money")...

Re: Google Talk
 

(taken from FluxionTech)

Here are some Tweaks for Google Talk:

Some quick and Easy was to make your text more vibrant!To make you test Strong & Bold place * (asterisks) around text desired to be bold.Example: *Im Bold* Im NotTo make you text Slanted and Thin place _ around text desired to be italic.Example: _Im italic_ Im notChange the text size in the chat window Thanks to Nathan Lanier:While your mouse is over the chat field hold down Ctrl and use the scroll button on your mouse. The text will get bigger and smaller.
Screenshot1:
Screenshot2:

GT seems to be using modifiers from Textism Check it out.Techniques are still being discovered.

Parameters:



!You Decide if these 2 work or not for GT:

Prefetch Myth To use application parameters create a shortcup to the application, then open up the shortcuts properties and edit the “Target” field to look like“C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex Quotes Included! ^ This will allow mutilpe instances of the application simultaneously.
Save Shortcut and your done. Multiple params can be used as well example: …\googletalk.exe” /nomutex /checkupdate


Button Codes: These are the codes in googletalk.exe that edit what the buttons do when pressed.

To edit this you need: ResHacker, ResEdit, or eXeScope
In this example we will use ResHacker

I have gone through 40000 - 40100

I added three buttons to my tray menu. A Settings button, a force logout button, and a force login btn.

1. Open googletalk.exe in ResHacker
2. Go to Menu -> 110 -> Click on 1033

- 1033 will open up as a text.
3. To add these buttons find the lines:

And Replace with:

MENUITEM “Sign Out”, 40002, MFT_STRING, MFS_GRAYED</p>
<p> MENUITEM “Force Sign In”, 40001, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED<br />
MENUITEM “Force Sign Out”, 40002, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED<br />
MENUITEM “”, 0, MFT_SEPARATOR, MFS_ENABLED<br />
MENUITEM “Settings”, 40003, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED<br />
MENUITEM “About…”, 40023, MFT_STRING, MFS_ENABLED

4. Click Compile Script

5. Make Sure! that no instances of googletalk.exe are running
6. Click File -> Save
7. Your Done! Now Open up Google Talk and look at your changes.

Now your tray meu will have new functioning buttons and look like this: