Top 7 Web Based Instant Messengers
Our friends do not always use the same email clients as ours. This means that often we find ourselves communicating via emails and not instant messages because our instant messengers do not support each other’s email account. Even if chatting is possible, many of our IM clients’ features are not usable when we are chatting with somebody of a different email type. For example in Windows Live Messenger, we are able to chat with our Yahoo contacts but we cannot send them Winks.
One solution of course is to use the same instant messaging client. This however can become quite a problem since we cannot keep installing and uninstalling messaging clients. The best solution then becomes using web based instant messengers which allow easy, quick usage without the need of anything’s installation.
Read our list for seven of the top free web based instant messaging clients currently available. See which one is best for you and supports the emails you and your contacts use.
1. Instan-t
Instan-t is a great web based messenger that will let you cross-chat with people from other email services. The services it supports include Windows Live, AOL, GTalk, Yahoo, and ICQ. With Instan-t, users can share pictures and videos, add/block/delete contacts, rename contacts, hold video chats, and send files.
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Skype: Now on your Nokia Phone, but you can’t send Money anymore
Last week Skype announced that they are partnering with Nokia, to make Skype available in high-end Nokia Nseries devices running the Symbian S60 operating system, offering users pre-loaded out-of-the-box Skype calls, instant messages and more, via both 3G and WiFi.
This is definitely a great benefit for users of Skype who prefer Nokia Nseries mobiles. However, you will need a strong internet connection as well as preferably an unlimited data plan. While I do have an unlimited data usage plan on my mobile, I’m still crippled by the terrible speed of the Airtel GPRS connection.
In other news, Skype also said that they will be discontinuing the feature of sending money to others via Skype. I never ever used this service, simply because it was much faster to do the same with PayPal directly.
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Web Based Video Chat
There are many ways to do video chats like installing your favorite IM client and start a video call but what if you are not on your home computer and want to do a video chat with your friend or even a anonymous person (if bored). Try TokBox, it’s a great online web based video chat service which lets you do video calls for free.
You can start video conferences, see missed calls from your friends or anonymous people and much more. For example, if someone is not online, you can even send them a video mail which they can view when they get back.
You can easily set up your account details, send yourself a test video call message to check your mic/cam settings etc. There is also an option of creating a video call and posting it in their public section which can help you spread a word or advertise your message to everyone.
It uses your existing IM accounts to connect. TokBox supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN and Google Talk for now (which is good enough) – just submit your login information, which is totally safe, log in and start chatting.
Check it out: TokBox
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How to prevent MSN Spam in Pidgin (Tutorial Thursday)
I use Pidgin as my primary chat client. Pidgin allows me to login to MSN, Yahoo!, Google as well Google Hosted accounts all at once, thus ensuring I don’t have too many clients running at the same time to fulfil my chatting needs.
Off late I’ve been hit by a steady and constant amount of chat spam on my Hotmail ID. This has been rather irritating. Windows Live Messenger allows me to easily prevent this by blocking all non-friends. Here’s how you do it in Pidgin:
Access the Privacy dialog in Pidgin by navigating to Tools >Â Privacy.
Select your MSN account from the list. Ofcourse, you should have added accounts in Pidgin.
From the second drop down box select “Allow only the users on my buddy list”.
This should prevent any of your non-buddies from contacting you. It will prevent the millions of spam messages that you would receive.
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Google Releases in the last 48 hours
The folks at Google have been at full force over the last two days. There have been releases for Blogger, Google Analytics and Google Talkabout over the last 48 hours.
Blogger
Google Gadgets have now been enabled for all layouts blogs at Blogger. This new interface allows for the integration of iGoogle Gadgets directly into your sidebar, with an array of customization options for easy tweaking.
Google Analytics
Previously, even if you were logged into Google, you were required to relogin to Google Analytics. This is no longer the case.
Now, if you’re already logged in to your Google Account and come to the Google Analytics homepage, you can simply click “Access Analytics” and arrive at the admin page for your account.
Google Talk
Google Talk now has transliteration bots that will convert text from English to Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil or Telugu.
Transliteration is a service provided by Google India that allows you to type in Indian languages using phonetically equivalent English script.
There are currently 5 transliteration bots
- Hindi (en2hi.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
- Kannada (en2kn.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
- Malayalam (en2ml.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
- Tamil (en2ta.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
- Telugu (en2te.translit@bot.talk.google.com)
You need to add them to your friends list and then start a group chat session.
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