Video chat has not met up to the standards that we, the people of the world, hoped it might. The hope was the perhaps webcams could become the way of the next generation and that they would become the prominent means of communication with other people. The telephone would simply be replaced by the webcam. [...]

Categories: Facebook, Online Services

I recently covered a great LAN file sharing tool called Giver (see my article “Easily share files on LAN with fellow Ubuntu users using Giver“). I wanted to take that idea a little further and cover a similar tool that allows you to chat with fellow users on your LAN WITHOUT have to add them [...]

Categories: Linux, Networks, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Internet Explorer is the black sheep of the browser community.  It’s about as standards compliant as the overweight kid in the school athletics team, and as insecure as Fort Knox with the front door open.  Annoyingly though it’s still out there and being used. Now there might be some light at the end of the tunnel.  Social networking [...]

Categories: Facebook

If you are chatting or hanging out on sites like Facebook or MySpace regularly you are often inclined to spice up your messages. Many users make use of so called emoticons like :) to express feelings or their state of mind, some on the other hand would like something special, and that’s where special characters [...]

Categories: The Web, Tutorials Basic

The Linux operating system has gone through a number of “default” chat applications. From the earlier text-based chats like zicq, to the later Gaim, then to Pidgen (still in use), and now (and, hopefully, finally) GNOME has settled on Empathy. Empathy is a messenging program built upon the Telepathy protocol which is based on Gossip. [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Every once in a while the Ubuntu User Days Developer Team offers classes for Ubuntu users where you can join a chat room and ask your Ubuntu questions. One of those days is (with little warning from yours truly) today. Although IRC is, to many, a rather antiquated tool, others find it incredibly helpful. So [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Networks, Online Services, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic

First we had a look at how you all use your browser, then how you listen to music and watch videos, now it’s time to find out about instant messaging! With all the IM apps out there you could be using any one, or any combination, from web based, to desktop based, from one service, [...]

Categories: ask the readers

There is definitely no shortcomings when it comes to chat possibilities on the Internet. Users who want to chat find billions of possibilities from Instant Messengers to forums and IRC. It sometimes might be required to use a chat software that is running on one of the local computers to communicate with other users. ChatX [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you do any collaborative work you know how difficult some collaboration tools can be. With both MS Office and OpenOffice you can collaborate with notes and track changes. But what about collaborating in real time? What if you are wanting to quickly collaborate on a simple text document with multiple editors? Fortunately there is [...]

Categories: Linux, Mac, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Tools, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic, Windows