gmail & chat :)

[vinnywright]

I just wanted to say how well the gmail chat works withe our fav. distro .....

not onley can I chat box to my frends/relatives but the video conferencing works perfectly well.

I'v ben using it to talk to my mom in NY from NC me on Kubuntu her on windows and even with my $18 logitech web cam we get really nice video and audio

+ I activated the SMS lab and can send text messages to phones ........or call any whare in the US for free.......(SMS lab not required for phone calls).............SWEET.

well just check it out......and if you want to test it and don't know any one using gmail I'm

charles.v.wright@gmail.com if I'm not on just email me a time for a test run

☯VINNY☯

[buckeyered80]

Re: gmail & chat

Very cool! Hey did you install the Google chat as a Firefox add-on or was it a client that you installed?

[vinnywright]

Re: gmail & chat

I didn't half to install any thing I go to my gmail through firefox and it just works.

now my cam already worked with cheese and mic already worked so...........when I went to the google settings page through my gmail and whint to the chat tab my cam and sound were already detected

VINNY

[GreyGeek]

Re: gmail & chat

I used gmail VOIP to talk to my brother-in-law earlier this week. We tried it as aa experiment. It worked very well. When you click the box with the upward pointing diagonal arrow in it the video becomes a separate frame which you can drag around the screen and enlarge. It also includes simultaneous texting.

What it can't do is send files back and forth or share your screen the way Skype can. But, it doesn't try to create a supernode on your computer the way Skype does if it sees you have a big bandwidth.

[sithlord48]

Re: gmail & chat

i have been using google video to talk to a few people after testing with GreyGeek a while back. and it works nicely even with my cheepo web cam. the phone call service is nice too since my phone is a pos. one important thing i have found w/ the google video is that it only works in firefox (and i think opera) it does not work in rekonq. and i can't seam to get the video part working with kopete, but i seam to remember getting it sorta working on pidgin.

[lmilano]

Re: gmail & chat

NICE. Does it work in Google Chrome? I use skype to talk to my family. It has also worked well, for the last several years. I will test here with a couple computers. Thanks for the heads up, Vinny!

[vinnywright]

Re: gmail & chat

NICE. Does it work in Google Chrome? I use skype to talk to my family. It has also worked well, for the last several years. I will test here with a couple computers. Thanks for the heads up, Vinny!

I don't Know I haven't tried it withe chrome yet.........hit me up
ya skype dose well to but getting mom to use google was easer than getting her to install skype

VINNY

[vinnywright]

Re: gmail & chat

well it checks out on the verify you settings page in chrome
so I assume it dose.......

VINNY

[lmilano]

Re: gmail & chat

It did ask me to install something, though, it is a browser extension. No biggie

[vinnywright]

Re: gmail & chat

I'll be on chrome the rest of the day if you want to try it .....my gmail is in the top post

VINNY

[lmilano]

Re: gmail & chat

Thanks a lot Vinny, we already tested quite a bit, though, (and it's sunny and beautiful in the San Francisco (California) area, we'll be going out soon). Video/sound quality are very similar in Skype and GoogleTalk. But the Google voice app seems more promising: you can move around the little square where your own image is shown. The only advantage with Skype is that it is a standalone app.

Is there such a thing for Google video? Can you launch a "widget" or something that will stay docked like with Skype? Having to run a full browser and login to your gmail account seems a bit of a drag ...

[woodsmoke]

Re: gmail & chat

keeping this short, since people may frequent other forii.

I have done gmail and gdocs as a "proof of concept" for the college to do inventory online and the gmail visit to maintain it in real time.

However, as with all of the college establishments where they are MUCH smarter than you or I.......they opt....as do they allll....

For a "Windows compliant" ....... inventory control system that does LESS than google docs....and ....ummm

costs..........BIG BUCKS....

but that is what one gets from the academic elites who are MUCH smarter than you or I.....after they are college purfessors.....

>

woodfrustratedsmoke

[GreyGeek]

Re: gmail & chat

NICE. Does it work in Google Chrome? I use skype to talk to my family. It has also worked well, for the last several years. I will test here with a couple computers. Thanks for the heads up, Vinny!

I just used it with the latest Chromium Web Browser. While experimenting I got a popup telling me I had another YEAR of free phone calls to any phone in the US. I called my wife, setting on the couch next to my recliner and it worked beautifully.

[lmilano]

Re: gmail & chat

but that is what one gets from the academic elites who are MUCH smarter than you or I.....after they are college purfessors.....

Yes, I worked a long time in the Academia. It was embarrassing to see so many colleagues use MS "technologies" (windows, word, etc), when they had the freedom and the opportunity to use real open tools like LaTeX, Linux, etc ...

[buckeyered80]

Re: gmail & chat

The academic elites don't know what they're missing. You use your brain and innovate more with open source technologies. Man I get much more work done on my Linux machine. I love it. And it's kinda cool that Google is backing Linux, even though they are a big corporation who could turn evil on us . But It's cool that they've gotten their chat client working well on our favorite OS.