Archive for the ‘Gtalk’ Category

Gtalk is one of the most popular integrations on Orkut. Gradually Orkut is experiencing less no of scarps on scrapbooks and high usages of Gtalk chat feature. People love this because it’s convenient, easy to communicate and fast. However, all of us don’t know that we can customize Gtalk chat windows on orkut interface according to our needs. Orkut provides a handful of options to get this small Gtalk chat window customized according to our needs. Let’s know how to customize it. Read the rest of this entry »

Orkut has got more chatting functionality after getting integrated with Gtalk. You can easily choose your status message for Gtalk on Orkut. Currently it supports four options and you can choose them to go offline, invisible, online or busy. Each status will display a tiny status icon next to your name. It will show green for online users, red for busy users and gray for both offline and invisible user. Having a gray sign next to your name on Orkut, will make your Gtalk status offline, even if you are invisible in reality. Read the rest of this entry »

Since Gtalk was got integrated with Orkut, you can chat with any of your Orkut friends on Orkut site itself, without logging into Gtalk chat. But usually not all our friends appear in our Gtalk list, the reason behind this is that they are yet to integrate Orkut and Google account or you have not invited them to chat with you. And in some other cases you might be thinking of blocking someone from chatting with you. Orkut has a common platform to allow, invite or block friends from chatting with you on Orkut. Let’s know about it. Read the rest of this entry »

There are Orkut users who has Yahoo, Rediff, Hotmail, Sify or any other email service provider’s account associated with their Orkut profile. There is nothing wrong in that since Orkut allows to get registered with any existing email address. But since there are some services on Orkut like Gtalk chat that needs a Google account. If you don’t have a Google account, you can’t even think of using chat on Orkut as of now. But you can link your existing Orkut profile with a Google account and take advantage of few Orkut features. Read the rest of this entry »

Since Gtalk’s integration with Orkut, Google is continuously adding new features to improve their internal linking. Orkut added Gtalk as a part of Orkut’s chat system and now Gtalk started showing a link to all it’s user’s Orkut profile. You can visit any of your Gtalk friend’s Orkut profile and add them as friends on Orkut. Let’s know hot to find someone’s Orkut profile from his Gtalk ID. Read the rest of this entry »