Friday, March 2, 2007

Gtalk的强大

也许你还是msn的忠实簇拥, 但是多一种新的尝试未尝不可. 也许你还在为现在各种各样的Messengers 的朋友不能同时在线而烦恼, 那么你有没有想过有一种软件使他们全都在一起出现. 也许你还在为留言记录而烦恼,你有没有想过他们全都自动保存在网上? 也许有一种软件比你能想到的更强大.他就是gtalk.

gtalk 的强大体现在...

gtalk的强大还体现在他的自由性. 自由是人类一直想往的本性. 你很渴望不受任何约束地做任何事情.对, gtalk就是本着 这种精神 来开创的. 他对插件的 和 其他协议 的支持 非常好. 现在有很多公司都为 gtalk 量身 定做了 自由 的衣服. 穿上 这样的衣服 你就可以 和你 其他 messengers 上的朋友见面....

出于时间的原因, gtalk的优点可能还一时说不完. 为什么亲自去体验,去尝试呢? 别忘了,自由是我们一直所追求向往的.

以下转自bigblueball

Connect Google Talk to AIM, MSN, & Yahoo

Posted by Jeff Jeff is offline on 01-23-2006, 12:34 AM

Google has announced plans to get Google Talk and AIM talking, but with a little elbow grease you can do that and more today.

Now that Google has opened up their Google Talk servers for federation with other Jabber servers, you can use Google Talk to connect to your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo or ICQ. Here's how, step-by-step with screenshots.

First, download and install the free Jabber client called Psi. It's a fine Jabber client, and you might want to keep it, but you won't need to once you've set everything up. The Psi wiki has a great step-by-step for connecting to Google Talk. Follow their instructions and you'll be able to see your Google Talk contacts.

Next, go to Service Discovery and browse the Jabber server ursine.ca and you'll see the transports available.

Click on a transport and Psi will gather data.

Right-click on a transport to register. Registration involves entering your username and password for the given IM network. Once you do, Psi will connect to that network and retrieve your contacts. You can also add new contacts.

Once I had "registered" each of my IM accounts, I had a lot (hundreds?) of system messages.

Basically it asked me to confirm that I wanted to add each of these contacts. Once I did, they showed up in my Psi contact list.

Now exit Psi and fire-up Google Talk. You'll have all your IM contacts right there on your Google Talk contact list.

Once you've done so, you can chat with your friends on AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN -- all using Google Talk. You can also add contacts directly within Google Talk. Just use the format [screenname]@[transport.dns.name]. For example, to add my MSN screen name you would enter jeff@msn.ursine.ca

What's the deal with ursine.ca? You can use any Jabber server you'd like -- you'll find a complete list here at Open Jabber Servers -- ursine.ca was just the server I used.

This process works, although in my experience, the MSN transport has not been reliable. One of my friends reported an weird "echo" effect. Everything she typed was returned back to her as if from me (I saw none of her messages). I've also sent IMs to MSN contacts, only to have them immediately appear "offline."

As with any of these kinds of hacks, your mileage may vary. But you've got to admit -- it is very cool to be able to use Google Talk as a universal IM client.

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