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 →
The Next Killer App : Digsby IM Client
A Friend of mine told me about Digsby and I’ve been testing it for about a week now, and I have to say it is very very impressive. Till now I was using Pidgin as my choice of IM client. But in comparison to Digsby Pidgin falls very short. The Social Network features of it is simply amazing and the best thing is that it has been beautifully integrated. Well Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ,... 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 →
AirTalkr : The All in One IM Tool
I am sure you have accounts in MSN, Yahoo, GMail etc. Many a time you have friends in all the networks who you would like to chat over IM. Ofcourse you can install Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, or gTalk but then it becomes very tedious to manage all your buddies. Softwares like Pidgin, Trillian make it easier to manage your buddies over multiple networks. But today I am going to show you a cool Adobe AIR based app called AirTalkr that runs on Adobe Runtime and supports Multiple IM networks... Read The Rest →
Chax – Enhance the abilities of iChat
iChat is a wonderful app for Mac OS X and it has some uber cool features that are not found in the modern day IM Clients. Chax is the app that adds up more onto iChat. By uisng Chax you are going to be making your iChat chats a lot more enjoyable. Here is what Chax can do : User list: Toggle text status visibility of users Automatically resize the contact list to fit the number of visible users Set font of names, status messages, and group separators Show animated... Read The Rest →
