Are You Using Audio and Video in Gmail Yet?
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I have Gmail, like many of you do. Over the past months, Google has been adding handy scripts to enhance the experience. Just the other day, they added the possibility for you to do live video chat with your friends. All you need is a Webcam, and the small download to install from Google.
I was looking in my account to see who happened to be online while I was recording this video. Looks like my friend Rick from Geeks and the live community. I connected with him, and was amazed at the high quality of this service. Both the image and voice quality are of the highest caliber.
It’s not going to get any easier than this, really. Just point and click, that’s all there is to it. You can pop the video out of the regular browsing experience, so you can continue to surf online while you are video chatting with someone. I’ve never really seen something like this done in a better fashion. Kudos to Google.
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5 Comments
ThermionicEmissions
November 22nd, 2008
at 4:18am
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Monkey
November 21st, 2008
at 11:12am
Google has also added theming to Gmail! I particularly love the terminal theme and the planets themes. The terminal one might be difficult for those who can’t stand just text-based interfaces.
Unfortunately, Google doesn’t have the video feature working for Linux users. It doesn’t make much sense, since Linux users support Google a lot of the time and vice versa. Plus, their new mobile OS uses the kernel! Oh well. I guess I’ll be sticking to other methods for video chatting, such as Skype.
If you want to make Gmail more like a “desktop” client, you can try Prism by Mozilla, and setup a shortcut for Gmail. It works similarly to a desktop client because you don’t have to deal with the browser. The only thing is that I wish oit was capable of saving you password and immediately logging to the service you’re trying to use with Prism.
Shtanto
November 21st, 2008
at 7:40pm
Handy if you’ve got the tools. This sort of thing might get monitor makers to put cameras in their screens. Mac users will probably get the most benefit.
Caraibes
November 22nd, 2008
at 3:13am
So far it doesn’t work with Linux, so I’ll keep on using Skype for video-chats… I do however use Googletalk in Pidgin, but it is text-only…
chris
November 22nd, 2008
at 4:30pm
I can’t use google video yet! I use linux! I’m faithful that we linux users will get it eventually!