Archive for the ‘gtalk’ Category

Getting GTalk working through Adium

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Sadly there is no GTalk client for Mac OS X. So when I swapped to OS X I switched to Adium which worked great with our internal IM (jabber based), with my old MSN Messenger buddies (you dinosaurs!) and supposedly my new GTalk contacts.

Except GTalk didn’t connect at work because of firewall restrictions. The MSN Messenger connection in Adium has a handy “Connect via HTTP” option which works fine. But the GTalk options don’t have that.

Instead I found this little gem which tells you how to use port 443 (HTTPS, normally open on firewalls) and voila! GTalk now works at work.

Ain’t computers grand?

Posted in AAA, Error, OS X, adium, connection, firewall, gtalk, im, instant messenger, jabber, mac os x, msn messenger, problem | Comments

Google Voicemail

Saturday, August 19th, 2006

I am not a big voice fan but I must say the new voicemail feature in GTalk is dead handy. Here you can see one that a friend sent to me. It arrives in your gmail inbox as a message with a nice Flash based player.

Posted in Gmail, Google, audio, gtalk, voice, voicemail | Comments