MMMiii!

Ok. Everyone knows I’m on Google Talk ALL the time. You can even send me SMS or text messages through it to my cellphone. You just have to know my number and append @chikkatalk.com to it. That way, I still get to chat with some important people in my life like Matt and Yu. It is also a vital part of my life because that’s what I use to talk to Matt almost 24/7 .. maybe … like 12/7 including sleep. Currently 20 hours a day approximately, since I don’t stay in school much now that it’s just the Summer term.

So now, extra stuff about GTalk.

• File Transfers: Probably a lot of people know about this already, but since in the GTalk help pages, it doesn’t mention it… You can drag files to your GTalk conversation window to send files, as long as the other person and you are using the GTalk client. Most other IM clients has this feature anyway. These files could be just one, multiple, or even a whole folder.
• Call / Hang-up / Answer: GTalk actually has shortcut keys for these. I thought it was just for my keyboard so I didn’t mention it to Matt. Well, he was playing around pressing random keys and discovered it too. F11 is for calling and answering. F12 is for hanging up. This is helpful to know since we usually sleep with GTalk. And sometimes I get disconnected because of my stupidity and I call him back and he doesn’t really want to turn the monitor back on. So now we just use F11 to call/answer and F12 to hang-up. No need to turn monitor back on. I just wish GTalk had an auto-answer option to make life easier.
• Calls: It’s clear and you can have it on forever! It doesn’t disconnect you unless your Internet connection or your computer is stupid. Best of all, it doesn’t use up much memory.
• Simultaneous access: You can have GTalk running in more than one place at the same time. Heck, you can even have it running on your computer in more than one instance. 1 on the GMail window, and another one on the client itself, and another one on the Google Talk Gadget , which I will have to put somewhere on my blog and websitelater. You could also add GTalk to your sidebar on FireFox.
• YouTube and Picasa/Flickr Integration: This only works for the Gadget though, but with the gadget, you can watch YouTube and view Pictures right on your GTalk window! Well, for the client, you can preview pictures right on GTalk too. Even if you send multiple pictures, you can have them show up on your conversation window then and there. Just stretch your GTalk window to a size wherein the whole picture can fit.
• VoiceMail: Other person isn’t on or available? Leave a voice message! Feeling stupid? Leave a voice message! Want your loved one to make you a personalized ringtone? Make him leave a voice message! instant mp3 XD
• Logs: It logs all your chats whenever and wherever you are. You don’t want it logged? You can put your conversation off the record too.
• Twitter: Got a Twitter account? You can easily change your status on Twitter with GTalk. Just add twitter@twitter.com to your contacts and Voila! Instant updates! Oh, you could add me on twitter too. >_> Miii <—-
• Instant EMail: If you want to send an email to the person you’re having a conversation with on GTalk, just press F9.
• And the best feature of all: It’s not bloatware! Unlike MSN and YM and ICQ and AIM which includes a lot of useless shit, GTalk is very minimalistic. Simple, Sleek, Sufficient.
• Want themes and stuff? Go to customizetalk.com for it. (wow the tricks and tips that i discovered are there too! >_< =_=)

>_< I hope it doesn’t become bloatware.

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