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This article was written on April 12, 2007 by CyberNet.

Tutorial Thursday

Google Talk is by far my favorite instant messenger to use, but for some reason I never quite understood why they restrict you from starting a conference call. This is a feature I’m sure a lot of people would appreciate, and being able to talk to multiple people simultaneously would be a great addition to the software.

In the meantime however, there is a hack that you can use to do conference calls. It isn’t exactly the prettiest thing in the world because you’re going to have several instances of Google Talk running simultaneously. Here’s how it is done:

1. Find the shortcut that you use to open Google Talk, then right-click on it and go to Properties.
   
2. At the end of the shortcut add /nomutex which is what will let you run multiple instances of the Google Talk Client.
   
3. Now you need to open one Google Talk for each person you want to chat with. That means if you want to have a voice conversation with two other people you will need to run two instances of the client:
   
4. Now just open up a conversation window for all of your friends that you want to talk with at the same time and start chatting.
   

Pretty much the only bad thing about doing this is that everyone will have to do the same thing…so if there are a total of 3 people in the conversation (including yourself) then each person will need to have two instances of Google Talk open.

This is good for more than just conference calling though, this also means that you can sign-in to multiple Google accounts simultaneously. That might be useful if you have a separate account for work and a separate personal account because you can use both simultaneously.

If conference calling is really an important feature that you think Google Talk should have available, then let them know over at the Gmail suggestions page.

Source: IPAhome

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This article was written on March 24, 2006 by CyberNet.

Microsoft denies the claims that Smarthouse made last Friday stating that Microsoft was planning to rewrite 60% of the Windows Vista code and that they had to pull Xbox programmers to help finish the product on time. This was a big claim and Microsoft says that the code writing process is basically done. The current build of Windows Vista (build 5308.60) is said to be feature complete which means they will only be working on bugs and security features. Hopefully Microsoft is telling the truth otherwise there is little hope that we would see Vista in January 2007.

As expected, Microsoft also pushed the Office 2007 release date back to January 2007 so that they have the necessary time to complete it. Many people were speculating that this would happen so that the Vista and Office releases were kept synchronized. Microsoft has, however, recently released a Technical Refresh to the Microsoft Office 2007 Beta users which has an updated interface and many bug fixes. The Beta build is not meant for everyday use but there are many people reporting very good stability in this Technical Refresh. For anyone that has not used Office 2007 then it will be quite an experience the first time you get your hands on it. After a little getting used to then you will start to love the way this new version handles.

Overall, the delays are inevitable by Microsoft because of the complexity of the software that they write. At least they warn us months in advance of the delay instead of ignoring the fact and keeping the public left in the dark.

News Source: BetaNews – Smarthouse Article Inaccurate
News Source: CNet – Microsoft Delays Office 2007

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Verizon’s LG VL600 LTE modem received a software update today, but there’s no need to wake your MacBook from its peaceful slumber — there still aren’t any drivers for Apple computers, over a month after we were promised a relatively imminent update. That said, Verizon told PhoneScoop today that the carrier’s LTE dongles will indeed support Apple at some point next month, which is itself only days away. Pantech UML290 owners can bide their time with a workaround, but we LG users will take what we can get, eh?

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This article was written on July 24, 2006 by CyberNet.

By this point I think most people know the frustration that I had with how Mozilla handled the scrolling tab-bar in Firefox but it looks like they have found a good solution. By default I can now have a much more reasonable number of tabs open, in the area of 20-30, before the tabs start to scroll. Thank you Mozilla!

Even better is that the latest nightly build has a button located to the far right side of the tab-bar that will show you a list of ALL your open tabs. This makes it easier to navigate your sites when the tabs get so small you can hardly read them. In the demonstration picture that I took above you can see that my tabs are so small that they are hard to read which makes the tab-navigation button very useful. You can very easily see which tab you have selected because it will be displayed with bold text in the list.

At first I was wondering why they wouldn’t just make the button appear when your tabs overflow and start scrolling, but I am glad they didn’t because I have found it to be quite useful! If you decide you want to live on the edge and try out the latest nightly build of Firefox then go ahead, but you may experience some instability since this is not a released version!

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There were two big complaints when Windows Vista was launched just a little over a year ago. One was the fact that there were so many versions to choose from which made things confusing, and the other was the price. One of those two complaints has been resolved, partially, with Microsoft announcing that they are dropping the price of boxed copies of Windows Vista. The reason we say partially is because boxed copies are actually a very small percentage of Vista sales (about 10%). Most of them come from the sale of new PCs.

Here are the price changes consumers can expect:

Price cut percentages range from 20 to 48 percent which isn’t all that bad, we’re just wondering why they decided not to lower the price of Home Premium. Is it because it’s the best selling version of Vista? The next question is, will this help push along the sales of Vista? We are doubtful, but Microsoft is hopeful.  Brad Books, a Microsoft Corporate Vice President said, “We anticipate these changes will provide greater opportunities… to sell more stand-alone copies of Windows.”

The changes we outline above are only for copies of Vista in the United States. Elsewhere, prices too will change but it will vary from country to country. In developing countries, Microsoft has decided not to sell upgrade version of vista because many people don’t own XP, or at least a genuine version of XP, to make the upgrade possible.

I guess in a nutshell, we can sum this up by saying Microsoft made price-cuts to Vista, but they likely won’t do you much good.

Thanks for the tip Omar!
Source: Reuters

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