Trillian 5 for Instant Messaging

Aug 13, 2010 | 3 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Derrick is a fan of instant messaging applications, just as I’m sure most of you are. Each of us has our own preference when it comes to an all-in-one program. Some may love Adium while others swear that Pidgin is the [...]

What All-in-one Instant Messenger Should You Use?

Apr 24, 2009 | 5 Comments

Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed What do you use for your default instant messenger? There are so many options out there, it’s hard to choose since everyone is on different clients. That’s when you should check out an all-in-one. There are several of them out there [...]

Google Talk (Gmail) Contacts and Friends Lost

Nov 7, 2007 | 14 Comments

I screwed up a Gmail contacts import the other day, thinking that I could resolve the problem by deleting my contact list and then re-importing it… but that’s not the case. When I deleted the contacts in my Gmail address book, my Google Talk connections to them also disappeared. There’s absolutely no way to get [...]

Google to Google, Dust to Dust

Jul 31, 2006 | 2 Comments

Does anybody out there use Google’s Hello? Hello!? Yeah, Hello – the photo-sharing IM service that integrates seamlessly with Picasa and Google’s Blogger service. Here’s the problem I have with Hello: none of my friends use it. My real question is: why isn’t Picasa pushing people to use Google Talk, instead – and why isn’t [...]