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Pidgin (earlier Gaim) is a multiple protocol Instant Messenger client which can be used to chat using MSN, Yahoo, AIM and many other protocols. But most people do not know that you can use Pidgin to chat with Google Talk users.

Pidgin supports a protocol called XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol). XMPP is the core protocol of the Jabber protocol and GTalk is also based on the Jabber protocol. So it is quite easy to make Pidgin to work with GTalk.

How to configure Pidgin to work with Google Talk

1. Download & Install the latest version of Pidgin.
2. Open Pidgin and go to Add / Edit Account window of Pidgin.
3. From the drop-down box choose XMPP as the Protocol.
4. For the Screen name enter your Google Id (Gmail Id). eg. manast86
5. For Server enter gmail.com



6. You can leave the Resource with the default �Home�.
7. In the Password field enter your Google ID password.
8. Enter Local alias as whatever you want to.

That�s it. Now you can start chatting with your GTalk buddies using Pidgin while keeping in touch with users of other IM users also. Now, who needs separate YIM and GTalk instant messengers open.

Update 15 / 05 / 07

Troubleshooting (Suggested by Charlie in comments) - Some readers have reported that they are getting “Connect Error” when saving the account. If you get the same error, try going to the advanced tab and enter the following settings…

Force old (port 5223) SSL: Checked
Allow plaintext auth over unencrypted streams: Un-Checked
Connect Port: 443
Connect Server: talk.google.com
Proxy type: Use Global Proxy Settings

Hope it works now.

Are you stuck with a buggy software on your computer that just won’t uninstall using the “Add or Remove Programs” (referred to as AORP hereafter) in the Control Panel ? A reinstall of the software won’t work either. Then stop worrying and download the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility.

With the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility, you can remove a program’s Windows Installer configuration information.

• Provides a dialog box in which you can select one or more programs that were installed by Windows Installer.
• Removes the files and registry settings that make up the Windows Installer configuration information for programs that you select.

Note : The Windows Installer CleanUp Utility does not remove files of any programs that are installed by Windows Installer. So the files still remain there, just the entry in the AORP gets removed. After running the utility, reinstall the software at the same location and then uninstall it from AORP in the Control Panel.

Download Windows Installer CleanUp Utility

Ever since I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu Feisty, VLC has been making a cracking sound while playing video files especially at high volumes. But Totem plays the movies alright.

A bit of searching led me to this bug filed on Launchpad. So I concluded that the problem is with VLC media player.

Workaround to the VLC cracking sound in Feisty

There are two options either wait till there is an updated build of VLC or try this workaround to get rid of the cracking sound in VLC.

1. Go to Applications —> Sound & Video —> VLC Media Player.
2. Then click on Settings —> Preferences.
3. Expand the Audio preferences. Click on Output Modules and check the Advanced Options checkbox.
4. Select the Audio Output module as Linux OSS audio output.
5. Save and restart VLC. You will not hear the cracking sound anymore.

Now open the videos in VLC. You will never hear the cracking sound again.

Hope this helped you.

Don’t know which font to use on your blog or site ? Using good and easily readable fonts is the first step to building a accessible website/blog and it could well be the deciding factor as to how much time visitors spend on your blog.

Enter Typetester. An online tool which lets you compare fonts right on your screen before you use them in your blog/website.

Typetester is an online application, that can be pretty useful when you need to check or choose a typeface for your (next) project.

Some points about Typetester :

• You can select three different fonts and compare them at the same time to see how they will look.
• You can set the size, leading, tracking, alignment, color, background and decoration of the font.
• Fonts from user’s system are pulled into a web page, so you will never miss out on your favorite fonts.

After finalizing which font you want to use, Typetester goes a step further to give you the CSS code to implement the font on your blog/website.

Try Typetester now and tell me if it helped you..

This is going to be nothing short of a new revolution. OpenDNS has introduced a new feature enabling you to create your own shortcuts for websites you frequently access.

With OpenDNS shortcuts turned on, the address bar of your browser can be used to launch websites via your own shortcuts (for example g for google.com or mail for mail.yahoo.com).

What Shortcuts ?

For creating a shortcut you first need to log in to your OpenDNS account. Then go to Shortcuts in My Account. There you can create the shortcuts you want.

For example if you frequently access Wikipedia. Using OpenDNS shortcuts, you can simply create a shortcut wiki in OpenDNS, so that everytime you type wiki in the address bar of your browser you will be taken to Wikipedia.

You can create as many shortcuts as you like. For these shortcuts to function, you should obviously have set up OpenDNS on your computer. If you have not, it is very simple. Just change the DNS servers of your connection to the ones provided by OpenDNS which are :

208.67.222.222

208.67.220.220

You can change the DNS server from the TCP/IP Properties section of your network connection.

Try it ! || How To Set Up Open DNS || How to use OpenDNS shortcuts