HiYo Brings Your Messenger to Life
I’m sure all of you have had a chat online with your buddies via a IM client. I’m sure you must have realized that most of the IM clients are boring, and its not so fun to have a conversation in boring interfaces. Well an addon for MSN Messenger called HiYo claims to bring back your chat sessions to life. The Instant Messaging world needs a serious shaking. What we see around us is old school conventions forced into the hectic world of Instant Messaging, and it doesn’t work. Though... Read The Rest →
OoVoO – Video Conferencing Redefined
I got an invite email from a friend of mine, and it was for a product named OoVoO. I usually delete all invite emails before marking them as spam. But this time, I opened this one to see what it had to say. After reading the features, I ended up installing he product and now I feel so happy for having opened that email, because I’m now a big fan of OoVoO. OoVoO also happens to be a Webware 100 Winner and here’s what it does basically : OoVoo is... Read The Rest →
Hawt! Fring For iPhone Launches ..
Finally iPhone gets its first killer app. Yes you heard that right, Fring the Israeli company has come out with a beta of its native iPhone App. Here’s what the press release reads like : The special pre-release version will enable iPhone™ users to get an early taste of fring and discover the freedom of being able to take their fring™ contacts and buddies from their other favorite online communities mobile on their iPhones. They will also have the ability to make free and low cost mobile calls over WiFi... Read The Rest →
Google Talk Labs Edition Released
I wonder how many of you regularly use Google Talk anymore? Its been ages since the Official Google Talk client was updated. We’ve patiently waited for new features like Group Chat, New Emoticons to make it into Google Talk, but so far that hasn’t happened. Well the Google Talk team has just released a “Labs Edition” of Google Talk which is more or less same as the Google Talk Gadget, just that it is the desktop version of Google Talk Gadget. The Labs edition of Google Talk features notification for... Read The Rest →
GMail Adds Colored Labels, and AIM Support
The GMail crew seems to be working hard these days, ever since the launch of GMail 2.0. GMail has finally given us one of the most important features we’ve been waiting for quite long and that is Colored Labels. Well Labels was a great feature GMail already had, to help us organize our inbox, but these Colored Labels, help us easily spot out the message we’re looking for. A Screenshot below, shows the colored labels feature in action. You can now set a different color for each label so you... Read The Rest →
GMail adds Group Chat and Smileys to Chat
Ever since the Introduction of the new GMail, a lot of new features are being added to GMail on a regular basis. The latest one is the addition of Group Chat and Smileys into the Chat client that it is inbuilt into GMail. I have to say this is a cool new feature coming from the GMail team, because I can read through all my emails while having a group conversation will all my classmates for the next class outing! Start a group chat by clicking on the Options link... Read The Rest →
Joost to have Chat thanks to Meebo
The Hottest Online Video Startup in town just got a little more hotter. Lets say its burning hot right now. Joost has just announced integration with Meebo to provide inline Chat into the Joost software that is installed on millions of PC’s worldwide. If you are a Meebo user, then you can chat within Joost to your buddies on Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk etc.. which means no more shuffling between your favorite messenger software and Joost, the best thing to happen to Online TV.. For the time being the Meebo integration... Read The Rest →
Google to Connect to Different IM Networks Very Soon
Google seems to be giving GMail quite a push these days isn’t it? First we had the additional storage, then the rollout of IMAP, then a new interface, and now possibly the ability to chat with friends on multiple IM networks using the Jabber Transports feature. Ionut Alex Chitu over at Google System, while looking through the GMail code found stuff that was related to features not released as yet, which includes, Colors for Labels Detaching Messages from a Conversation And the ability to connect to multiple IM Networks like... Read The Rest →
A Peek into the Future : Adium 2.0
Looks like everyone’s favorite IM client on the Mac, Adium will be getting a major upgrade following the launch of upgrade. Most notable new feature is ofcourse AV Chat on Adium. The Adium team has been busy and you can expect Adium 2 to be released very soon. Adium is the most used IM Client on OS X, but for a long due to inevitable comparisons with Apple’s own iChat, Adium lacked AV Chat and finally it is going to trump iChat in all respects. Well this release has taken... Read The Rest →
