Google Client
Google Talk is one of the newer major chat clients, and as with other offerings from its parent company, it has some neat features. However, you will only get the full experience if you have a Gmail account. Those without Gmail don’t need to worry, as they will still be able to enjoy plenty of Google Talk’s features regardless of who they use for e-mail.
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Chat is straightforward and simple to use. Once you have friends added, just click on their names and start chatting. You can show friends what song you’re currently listening to if you have a supported music player (Windows Media Player, Winamp, iTunes, Yahoo Music Engine). If you like to chat with more than one person at a time, Google Talk has a feature to collapse, stack and rearrange multiple chat windows.
You will be notified when someone is trying to send you a message, provided you have Google Talk displayed in your system tray. These notifications appear even when the chat window is hiding. It should be noted that offline messages will only be sent to friends that have a Gmail account.
Voice and video chat (personal or group) is free, as long as all parties have Google Talk enabled and the voice plug-in installed. There is also a voice mail option that allows you to send and receive audio messages of up to 10 minutes. These are delivered to the recipient’s e-mail account for downloading. Gmail users can play voice mails right from the e-mail.
File transfers over Google Talk are unlimited in size and type. This means you can send Word documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, movie files, and so on. Google has even added a timer for estimated download times for larger files. Also, you will be able to continue chatting no matter how big the file is.
Virtually anyone can use the web-based Google Talk Gadget, include Mac users. Offline messages, voice mail and file transfers are disabled, but the Gadget has some exclusive features of its own. For example, if you copy a YouTube URL and post it in the Google Talk Gadget it will automatically embed the video instead of displaying the text link.
Google Talk has all the bells and whistles one would expect in a chat client. Emoticons, themes, and the like are all there. The only quibble is that it doesn’t support multiple fonts, but if that’s the worst thing about, then Google has a winner.
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