TABLE OF CONTENTS Google Talk does a great job of providing text and voice communication between users, but there is always room to push for more. In this case, why limit ourselves to ordinary voice conversations with other Google Talk users?
That is so 20th century! Let s jazz it up a bit with videoconferencing abilities, a feature found in most other IM clients. And let s not stop there. How about making telephone calls to your friends and family from your computer, just like you can with Skype!
We ve all been there: vacationing in Bermuda, sipping drinks on the beach, when we suddenly get an urge to call mom to check up on her day. But the price of a phone call to the States is outrageously high. So what are you to do? Simple: Fire up the laptop and call Mom through Google Talk! A number of services are available to take your Google Talk chat and connect it to a land line as VoIP. Although these calls are not free, they are priced far more cheaply than toll calls and foreign exchanges.
One such service is Talqer, located at www.Talqer.com. Talqer is an extremely easy-to-use application that can either be run by itself or integrated into Google Talk to allow you to make phone calls to regular cellular and land phones from your computer. The rates are extremely reasonable at only pennies per minute, and no...
