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Get Dictionary Meanings on Google Talk quickly

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imageLast week, we wrote about @twitlookup, a Twitter bot that can look up meanings and definitions for you via Twitter. Now, Keith D’Souza has created another bot that works from Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and Windows Live Messenger and helps you find meanings.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 2nd, 2009 at 12:23 pm

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Download gAlwaysIdle to make your GTalk Status Always Idle

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Back when Gmail Chat hadn’t introduced the Invisible mode, there was no way you could remain invisible from your Gtalk friends when logged in. I was using a program called gAlwaysIdle then, and when I’m just busy I just use it to change my status to ‘Idle’ on Google Talk.

The Invisible mode doesn’t work when you’re using both Google Talk and Gmail chat simultaneously. That’s when gAlwaysIdle could home handy.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

March 25th, 2009 at 12:33 pm

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