Fun and Useful Tweaks with Google Talk (IM)

August 17th, 2007 I faced quite some problems in configuring Pidgin / Gaim with Google Talk on Fedora Core 6. Here are the detailed steps for a no-brainer configuration of Pidgin for Google Talk: 1.

August 9th, 2006 The Sony mylo (short for "my life online") is a nifty handheld device that will allow you to access a fun set of features from a WiFi network. With 1GB of memory you can store music and photos, browse the web, or use email and IM (with QWERTY keyboard).

July 14th, 2006 Google Talk, Google's instant messaging service ranks at the bottom of the overall ranking, which is dominated by MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger according to ComScore Media Metrix. MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger tops with 204m subscribers, Yahoo! Messenger is second at 78m, AIM boasts of 34m users and ICQ claims 33.9m users.

November 12th, 2007 I am sick and tired of Yahoo Messenger Spam initiated primarily by Myfreecamhost and now joined by few new initiates too. Everyday, at the most inppropriate times I will get one or more messages from Yahoo Messenger asking me to watch some random female's webcam on myfreecamhost for free (obviously scam).

December 2nd, 2008 Now you can chat with your friends at orkut just as you do in Google Talk, but without logging into your G-talk account separately. Your orkut account gives you the facility to log in to your page and chat with friends in real time just as you will love to do in messengers.

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

December 15th, 2008 We were the first to come out with the chat integration feature of orkut. But almost immediately I realized that it is going to be a big source of irritation for the users.

November 5th, 2007 Yahoo Instant Messenger isn't directly available on Linux. However there are several alternatives.

January 12th, 2009 With the advent of VOIP technologies, it has become a cheaper substitution of land lines or mobile phones in telecommunication domain. Today, let me tell you a trick by which we can talk to any land phone or mobile phone through Gtalk voice facility and that too for free! Assuming that you have a working headset with microphone and a Gtalk already installed (if not) in your PC, I shall now proceed.

January 15th, 2009 Trust Windows to come up with problems before they can give you a solution to a previous. The other day, I heard that there is a problem for the new Windows 7 beta users.

July 7th, 2009 Gmail drops 'beta' label to woo business customersNEW YORK — After more than five years officially in testing mode, Gmail is finally graduating from "beta." Google Inc. says its e-mail service and three other applications in the Google Apps suite for businesses are now finished products in name as well as function.

March 25th, 2009 Google search has been tweaked and as you have already guessed it, its gone better. According to a recent post from the official google blog, Google search is now able to target more queries, more languages, and make our suggestions more relevant to what you actually need to know.

June 11th, 2005 I found something interesting: Google's SiteMap. This provides a handy reference to Google Tools which are increasing by the day.

February 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.

July 20th, 2008 Just after announcing its quarterly results Google lost over 16 billion dollar on Friday. The last trade was at 481.32, down from its previous day high of 534.75.