How can I have Google Voice send my SMS to an instant message service such as Google talk?
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posted by jesirose
on Jun 27, 2009 -
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In my Gmail sidebar contacts list, a contact shows up with a greyed-out "Invited" next to their name. Does this mean that I have invited them to chat, or that they have invited me to chat? I still have the "invite to chat" option available, and I can't remember if I did send a chat invite. Thanks in advance, hivemind.
posted by Inspector.Gadget
on Apr 4, 2009 -
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I'm looking to set up an XMPP/Jabber server with minimum hassle, with one major requirement: I want to run the service for 2 domains across two servers, each acting as backup/redundancy for the other.
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posted by d7415
on Jan 17, 2009 -
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I have a client who wants to add live chat to their company website, for customer support. What are your experiences with some of the software packages out there?
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posted by Chuck Cheeze
on Dec 17, 2008 -
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What's the best moderated group chat solution to accomodate newspaper website readers and thinktank experts?
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posted by jmprice
on Oct 6, 2008 -
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What is the most user friendly and computer accessible way to set up group chat for a Facebook group?
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posted by Skwirl
on Jul 3, 2008 -
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Is there a way to make an email list announce-only for some recipients and unmoderated for others?
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posted by ManInSuit
on Jun 25, 2008 -
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A friend had a question I was uncertain about... is there a way on a laptop running Vista -- short of having two sound cards -- where you can have Ventrillo voice chat through any kind of headphones, while at the same time having entirely seperate streaming radio playing to speakers through the audio out port on the laptop?
She's open to any kind of headphones or any streaming audio software which would support this. Failing this... is there a good, simple, ideally non-invasive workaround to add a second sound card to a laptop?
posted by markkraft
on Apr 9, 2008 -
5 answers
Besides Google Groups, where else can I find archives of discussions from the early days of the internet? (on any subject)
posted by vizsla
on Mar 11, 2008 -
7 answers
Let's say I have a small group of people -- 10 and under -- and I want to provide a stable, private chat room that participants can enter and exit at will. Let's further say that I would want whatever software that provides this to account for different technical skills (no command-prompts) and when everyone leaves the room it isn't taken down needing to be recreated again in the future? Proprietary software is fine. For Profit software is fine. (Free is better!! ;-)
posted by tcv
on Oct 27, 2007 -
12 answers
My grandfather read a review of
Oovoo last week and wants to get everyone in the fam web cams so we can chat video style. I was hoping to get some input on people's favorite webcams and chat software.
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posted by bernsno
on Oct 10, 2007 -
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I run a small, private forum for a few friends who are scattered across the US & Canada. I'm looking for easy ways to incorporate other ways for me to enable additional communication between members - whether it's a group voice chat or a chat room. I need help figuring out how to do this
very easily (I was barely technical enough to install a pretty skin for my phpBB),
very cheaply (preferably free), and so that it maintains a reasonable level of
privacy. Can you help me figure this out?
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posted by tastybrains
on Sep 25, 2007 -
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World of Warcraft filter: I want to create a group channel for all 3 guilds on the site channel. Possibly mod or addon?
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posted by spinko
on Aug 13, 2007 -
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Small, free, UDP-based server/client text chat application with no central server - does it exist?
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posted by ostranenie
on Jul 18, 2007 -
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What's the simplest, easiest, fastest way to create a search engine for a discussion website (in particular,
this one) which is NOT RUN by that website, but on another computer, and which recognizes as searchable/sortable fields: 1) the "board" the post is in, 2) the titles as well as the bodies of posts, and 3) the dates the posts were made? Oh, and it should update with new posts every few hours, say.
posted by shivohum
on Jun 17, 2007 -
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What happened to character-by-character chat? I miss the intimacy, subtle nuances of meaning, and most of all the ability to interrupt one another and complete one another's sentences that was inherent in old-school unix 'talk'. How can I replicate this nowadays?
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posted by dmd
on May 21, 2007 -
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Deceptively unchatfilter =P I am looking for good discussions on Occam's Razor -- which I think is obscenely absurd. Looking for links to discussions, not necessarily petitioning comments (although welcome).
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posted by vanoakenfold
on Feb 13, 2007 -
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Is there a website that people can use to chat and IM without actually using the the IM software? I thought I had read about such a site in an article about teens outsmarting the filters on their school computers, but I cannot remember what the site was called. Does this ring a bell with anyone?
posted by foxinthesnow
on Jan 3, 2007 -
22 answers
I run a web design company, and want to set up a website based chat client so I can see when someone is perusing my site and pop up a chat window to help them with any questions...
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posted by wile e
on Dec 3, 2006 -
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Chat-at-Work-Filter: In my line of consulting I end up working at a number of client sites where the client's IT department has succeeded in convincing management that Instant Messaging is the devil...
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 28, 2006 -
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I am trying to create a brief weekly calendar for work of upcoming events that will be posted as an AOL IM away message that people can check throughout the week. How can I create a longer AIM away message than the default allows?
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posted by andoatnp
on Nov 28, 2006 -
7 answers
How do I figure out how long my AIM screen name has been active?
posted by honorguy7
on Sep 30, 2006 -
13 answers
I use
Adium as my instant messenging client. I am in the process of moving user accounts and I would like to take all of my settings and data with me. How do I do it?
posted by honorguy7
on Sep 19, 2006 -
3 answers
what's up with chat lines like livelinks & quest? are they fronts for escort services? I'm up late a lot & they play those commercials on tv constantly. I've always been kind of curious.
posted by octavia
on Jul 27, 2006 -
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I have a Logitech Messenger webcam and a Mac (10.3.9) and I downloaded the macam software. How do I chat with a friend who has a PC and another Logitech webcam? Should we use AIM? Yahoo? Excuse me if the question's too easy but I'm a total webcam n00b and what I found on Google is quite contradictory. Thanks!
posted by PenguinBukkake
on Jul 14, 2006 -
9 answers
How do I participate in a chat where the others frequently talk about personal topics, but want me not to but in, since I am not a long-time member?
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posted by gregb1007
on Jun 27, 2006 -
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Researching World of Warcraft: I'm a graduate student studying online communication and social organization. I'm very interested in analyzing the chat interactions that happen in WoW. So far as I can tell, however, there's no way to save a transcript of the chat window. Is there any way to capture these interactions?
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posted by aladfar
on May 1, 2006 -
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Where can I find and participate in high-level, Metafilter-style discussion of relationships?
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posted by agropyron
on Apr 25, 2006 -
10 answers
Where on the internet can you go for anonymous support when you are feeling just a little blue?
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posted by anonymous
on Mar 5, 2006 -
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I have a Mac (10.4.5), my Dad has a PC (XP Home). We both have cable modems. We want to video chat. What apps can we use together? Bonus points if I can continue to use iChatAV.
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posted by Wild_Eep
on Feb 24, 2006 -
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