Technology Nerd » Google Talk http://tnerd.com (Technology, as it happens, When it happens!) Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:54:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 IBNLive GTalk Buddy: Get the latest of CNNIBN on Your GTalk! http://tnerd.com/2008/08/09/ibnlive-gtalk-buddy-get-the-latest-of-ibncnn-on-your-gtalk/ http://tnerd.com/2008/08/09/ibnlive-gtalk-buddy-get-the-latest-of-ibncnn-on-your-gtalk/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:39:23 +0000 Abbas http://tnerd.com/?p=1131 IBNLive on Google TalkIBNLive recently launched IBN Buddy.

This lets you get the latest on your talk by sending a message to the GTalk Buddy.

All you have to do is add "im@ibnalerts.com" to your friends list on Talk, thats all. Now whenever you want to know whats happening around the world just send a message "Top" to im@ibnalerts.com and get the latest news delivered at your Talk.

Another option to get the latest news at regular intervals is by subscribing to the news. Message "s top" to im@ibnalerts.com.

.com has been one of the most advanced portals in India and the entire credit goes to the the technical team of (kudos to you guys!). It would’nt be wrong if I say that they are setting new standards in media and rest of the news portals are playing the catch up game. Over the period of years has received several awards which are testamonials to teams success.

Back to the Talk Buddy.

These are the keywords you can use:

top: Gets you all the latest stories from
sports: Gets you all the latest sports stories from
biz: Gets you all the latest business stories from
ent: Gets you all the latest showbiz stories from
search: Search ’s stories (Example: "search Euro 2000")
subscribe: Shows you the ways in which you can subscribe to or manage alerts

Once you add im@ibnalerts.com to your list. Status will continue to show as "invited" but you can start using it rightaway.

Following is the promotional guide which runs you through the steps of using this feature.



Visit IBNLive to know more

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]]> http://tnerd.com/2008/08/09/ibnlive-gtalk-buddy-get-the-latest-of-ibncnn-on-your-gtalk/feed/ 1 gAlwaysIdle: Put yourself on Idle or Active forever on GTalk http://tnerd.com/2008/06/23/galwaysidle-put-yourself-idle-active-forever-gtalk/ http://tnerd.com/2008/06/23/galwaysidle-put-yourself-idle-active-forever-gtalk/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:49:30 +0000 Abbas http://tnerd.com/?p=888 Idle GtalkgAlwaysIdle is a simple and straightforward and a great little tool which saves you from being rude to (sometimes)annoying contacts on . gAlwaysIdle lets you put yourself on “Always Idle” or “Never Idle” more whenever you want. Being on “Always Idle” you can chat away without being noticed on the IM.

This feature comes handy when putting yourself in Busy mode on does not help much, this way you can chat and continue working even on Idle mode.

The software is created by an ex-Manager at Microsoft who wanted more control over .

Click here to download gAlwaysIdle – Subscribe to the Mailing list here or dropin a thank-you note at the forum

Updatge Sep-11-2009: Download Link mentioned above does not work anymore.. please try the following link to download

http://www.esnips.com/doc/10bbb145-083c-4438-b319-6b428354b855/gAlways Idle

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]]> http://tnerd.com/2008/06/23/galwaysidle-put-yourself-idle-active-forever-gtalk/feed/ 2 GTalk to Offer Offline Messages Soon http://tnerd.com/2006/11/01/gtalk-to-offer-offline-messages-soon/ http://tnerd.com/2006/11/01/gtalk-to-offer-offline-messages-soon/#comments Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:28:47 +0000 Abbas http://tnerd.com/2006/11/01/gtalk-to-offer-offline-messages-soon/ GTalk  ZDnet reported that will soon release the functionality for leaving offline messages. This feature will be available to Gmail users who save their chat history and do not have "Off the record" mode enabled.

Google Talk is popular and favorites of millions of users because of its simple to use approach and crystal clear voice quality. As witnessed in the past few months has released more and more features to GTalk () which shows how serious the company is to be the top player in the IM market and attract users based on its features.

What other features do you think we will see in the near future on ?

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