GMail Chat now supports the invisible status. In the recent update they’ve added this feature, however it won’t work if you are logged in simultaneously with Google Talk.
You can easily chat with people when in Offline mode too, it’s good to see that they allowed this because Google talk is just too honest normally and I thought that they won’t allow you to chat with anyone when in Offline mode. Recently, Amit found the trick of setting your status to always idle using a small software called GAlwaysIdle.
You just need to install this software and from Gtalk itself you can set your status message as Idle.
Now one long time wish of mine, please Google Please! for heaven’s sake please update Google Talk!
Note : This feature only works with IE 7 & Firefox.
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Vaibhav
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:18 pm #
Thats a great feature they have added, It was much required.
Now Google should update gtalk, and open support for video calls.
Rakshitk
February 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pm #
I think we will see all the changes in GTalk at once. They are testing them on gmail and when all tests are over, I hope they will be implemented in GTalk.
We can just hope. That’s it.
:-)
ReviewSaurus
February 25th, 2008 at 3:45 pm #
@ Rakshit : We can only hope that they’ll do so. Rather, I think your comment makes more sense, they are testing all the features with GMail and the web based widget and then later on they’ll come up with versions of various other OSes too…I just think so but I still wonder that why the hell it’s taking so much time for them to do all this, not that Google is short of any resources.
Rakshitk
February 25th, 2008 at 5:35 pm #
Well, the reason is simple. With so little functionality and features, GTalk still tops in the list of all the IMs used as of now. Then, why to hurry? Their business is doing good. Why to change or upgrade? Instead, it’s better to concentrate on other areas where there are real requirements to fulfill.
:-)
ReviewSaurus
February 26th, 2008 at 11:08 pm #
I guess you are little wrong in your stats here. GTalk doesn’t tops the list at all! It’s no where near to Yahoo and MSN.
Abhimanyu
May 6th, 2009 at 6:48 am #
you can also find some extra features on the labs version of other Google products which allows you to make yourself invisible but it does not always override the gtalk client software if you have that installed
http://mwolk.com/blog/how-to-stay-and-chat-invisi...