Showing posts with label Gtalk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gtalk. Show all posts

Saturday, April 24, 2010

If you want to find say xyz@gmail.com is invisible or not. Open your gtalk application and type the email address or username in top search textbox.




Click the profile, it opens in new window as usual.

Click on the down arrow button in the top right corner of the window, and you can see Go off the record link there.


Message appears in red text if your friend is really offline


If the person is invisible no message appears

Use this trick to identify invisible friends from gtalk!

Saturday, April 10, 2010

We all miss one of the great awaited feature of how to set invisible status in gtalk. Just like yahoo messenger invisible status in gtalk will allow you to be online without being bugged by gtalk friends when you are at work or don’t feel like to be annoyed by your gtalk friends.

But the regular gtalk version provided by google does not allow you to be in invisible mode when you are logged in.


gtalk-modes


As seen in the image above you can either set your gtalk to busy, show current music track or any custom message as your gtalk status message.

Invisible In Google Talk With Google Talk Labs Edition

In order to get invisible with gtalk only then you need to install a some what different version of gtalk called gtalk labs edition.

What is Gtalk Labs Edition?

Google Talk, Labs Edition is an experimental release of the Google Talk client. It has many of the same great features as the Google Talk Gadget, including instant messaging, emoticons, and group chat. Google Talk Labs Edition also includes new desktop notifications from Gmail, Calendar and Orkut.

You will need to first download gtalk labs edition from here, and install it.

After running and logged in to gtalk labs edition, you will find the option to set your status to invisible mode.


gtalk labs edition-modes

But google talk labs edition is not as good as google talk!

A useful trick for google talk users, which allows you to create desktop shortcuts for launching the chat window.


For example, I frequently chat with some person xyz@gmail.com in google talk, so every time I want to chat with him I would need to search and type his name or gmail id in search bar or you can also enable to see all online contacts by enabling the scrollbar.



So, if you don’t want to search every time the same person you frequently chat, you can create desktop shortcuts with the following target paths.

gtalk:chat?jid=xyz@gmail.com [starts a chat]

gtalk:call?jid=xyz@gmail.com [starts a call]

Friday, March 21, 2008

Google has included invisible mode feature in GMail Chat last month(Feb 22, 2008). This feature allows you to appear offline and still chat with your friends unlike MSN Messenger. I feel that this is one of the best feature in Yahoo Messenger which is now made available to us in GMail Chat. Please note that this feature is not availble on GTalk Clients. Check out GMail’s Official Blog for more information.


Hope this invisible status is reaches gtalk soon.

Friday, October 19, 2007

MULTIPLE GTALK


Run Multiple Instances of GTalk

If you've got many Gmail accounts and don't want to keep logging on and off them every time you switch, a simple command line parameter in the Google Talk shortcut can solve your problem.
  • First, create one copy of the Google Talk shortcut on your desktop - leave the original intact.
  • Right click on this shortcut and choose Properties. The Target box will show you the path of the EXE for Google Talk - something like "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe"
  • Change this to: "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex and click OK.


I too had a similar problem.And found this as the solution after surfing through the internet.