Google Talk Tips

Google Talk Tips If you would like to moveyour Google Talk box justput your cursor on theGoogle talk logo on the topleft of your talk box on thegray border hold down leftclick and drag anywhere youlike. Handy if your readingsomething else but you wantto keep GT it in slight view onyour browser. Most smileys are recognized by Google Talk and will show up in blue. :-O :-x :-P :-D ;-) :-( :-) B-) :'( : :O :x :P :D :) :( :) And these Shortcuts will help:F9: Open Gmail to send an email to your friend F11: Start a call with your friend F12: Stop the current callALT + ESC: Minimize the current window ESC: Close the current window SHIFT + TAB: Same as TAB but in reverse order TAB: Switch between multiple chat windows CTRL + I: Same as TABCTRL + SHIFT + L: Switch between points, numbers, letters, capital letters, roman numbers and capital roman numbers CTRL + Mousewheel up/down: Change the font size in a conversation window. CTRL + E: Center text CTRL + R: Right justify text CTRL + L or CTRL+J: Left justify text CTRL + 1 (keypad): Change lineheight (single) CTRL + 2 (keypad): Change lineheight (1,5) CTRL + 5 (keypad): Change lineheight (double) Conversation WindowDrag a conversation window on top of another and they will dock together Conference CallsWhat you need to do to have conference calls: Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of it add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex. Open 2 instances of the software on every user's computer. After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone. You can add a website in your away message, it will be clickable in conversation windows. ContactsYou don't need to say Yes or No when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this). Secret Parameters/nomutex: allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk/autostart: when Google Talk is run with this parameter, it will check the registry settings to see if it needs to be started or not. If the "Start automatically with Windows" option is unchecked, it won't start. /forcestart: same as /autostart, but forces it to start no matter what option was set. /register: registers Google Talk in the registry, includig the Gmail Compose method.\r\n/checkupdate: check for newer versions \r\n/plaintextauth: uses plain authentication mechanism instead then Google \'s GAIA mechanism. Used for testing the plain method on Google \'s servers. \r\n/nogaiaauth: disables GAIA authentication method. The same as above. \r\n/factoryreset: set settings back to default. \r\n/create_sesion \r\n/s upgrade: used when upgrading Google Talk \r\nOthers\r\nGoogle Talk can dock into the Google Desktop Sidebar. /checkupdate: check for newer versions /plaintextauth: uses plain authentication mechanism instead then Google's GAIA mechanism. Used for testing the plain method on Google's servers. /nogaiaauth: disables GAIA authentication method. The same as above. /factoryreset: set settings back to default. /s upgrade: used when upgrading Google Talk OthersGoogle Talk can dock into the Google Desktop Sidebar. Doubleclick on the titlebar in the Google Talk main window and it docks as a panel into the GDS and slides out when you click the top of