How to find out who is invisible on Google talk

There were many tricks to find out who is invisible on Yahoo but no such trick was there for Google talk but a recently discovered bug make it possible to easily find out whether your friend is really offline or hiding himself by becoming invisible in Google talk.

Follow these simple steps :

1. Set the chat as off the record with target user. This can be done only when the other user is online.
2. Now try sending chat to that user when he is invisible or offline.
3. If he is invisible, then he will receive chat.
4. But if he Is offline, then you will receive error “ did not receive your chat”.

Simple! You may be surprised how this worked.Actually When a chat is set off the record, it will no longer get stored in your Gmail account.When you send a chat message to offline or invisible user, it gets delivered by default. At receiving end if user is online, a chat screen pops up showing him your message. If he is offline, your chat message will go to inbox as a mail.

Now if you put together above points then you will notice that, when you set chat off the record it can’t be delivered to inbox as mail, so it will be delivered only if user is online (no matter if he is invisible).

Now the only tricky part is finding a user online for once to set chat off the records. This doesn’t seem hard as invisible status is still limited to Gmail version of Google Talk and you may be in luck if your friend uses Google Talk desktop clients/gadgets or third party IM client to chat.

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Create your own custom GTalk theme

This time we are talking about how to create your own custom Google talk / Gtalk theme. This procedure will also tell you how to install or change your Google talk theme.



1.Move to C:\Documents and Settings\"username"\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\ themes\user\chat
Here "username" is your windows login user name.This folder is the place where all pre-installed Gtalk themes are stored.If you have downloaded a theme for Gtalk then you have to paste it here only.

2.Select a desired theme and click on the theme folder and move to this folder
C:\Documents and Settings\"Username"\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Talk\themes\system\chat\"themename"\Contents\Resources

Here you will find main.css file. This CSS file defines the looks of Google Talk skins. You can edit these CSS and create your own custom theme. You can add your own custom images and colors to Google Talk.

3.Now you have created your own Gtalk theme.This is the time to install it on Gtalk. For this open your Google Talk and select Settings-> Appearance and you will be able to see your new theme.

If you like this post then you might be interested in latest Firefox themes also.

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How to become invisible in Gmail chat

Most of the instant messengers have the facility to become invisible while chatting but Gmail chat does not have this facility till now.But now you can avail this facility because in a very recent update Gmail has provided this facility.

But it won’t work if you are logged in simultaneously with Google Talk. So now you can be offline but also chat with friends who are online, completely invisible.

Also setting up your invisible mode in Gmail chat is also very simple, refer the adjoining image here, use the invisible option now available under the 'set status here' option.

Google Talk does not allow users to decide when their status changes to 'idle' and back. The result is that others can easily know whether or not you're at your computer. however there are some free softwares that can assist you to take control of your GTalk status.

Try gAlwaysIdle, it adds two new options to Google Talk, allowing you to change your status to be 'always idle' or 'never idle'. When your status is set to 'always idle', you'll appear idle to your Google Talk buddies, even if you're sitting at your computer typing e-mails and sending IMs. The software is freely available here..

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How to enable group chat in Gtalk

Group chat was the important feature that the Gtalk was lacking because the major competitor like Yahoo messenger was providing the same feature a lot before.Group chat enables you to chat with more than one friend in the same window and they can also do the same means like every one is chatting with each friend in the group.

This feature is also available in the Gtalk, do you know that?Might be.Actually you can do group chat in Gtalk only with Gtalk gadget.First launch the gtalk gadget after signing in click on the button on the top of the window,see snap shot.




This will enable you to chat in group.You can send invitation to your friends and If your friends are using Gmail chat or the downloadable Google Talk client, their invitation will launch the Google Talk Gadget.

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Auto save feature of Gtalk chat

Today Gtalk is among the most widely used software for chatting over Internet.On Google network you can chat on Google Gtalk or in Gmail etc. But do you know whatever you are chatting over Internet is saved by Google automatically.

Some of you might not be aware of this but yes this is true.These chat scripts are saved in the folder Chats under Gmail and it can be accessed from any computer through Internet. By default these chat history is enabled and you can even search the archives of your chat history.

There might be a case when you don't want to allow Google to save these scripts automatically. Then you have to go to chat settings in Gtalk or Gmail there is an option by which you allow Google to save them or not.

What if you don't want to save a particular chat script while your Chat saving feature is enabled.
Then for this Google has provided you facility called OFF the record.It means when this feature is enabled then Google is not saving your chat scripts .

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