Find "Invisible" friends on Google Talk

There is an extremely easy way to find out if your friends on Google Talk have set their status to "Invisible" and they appear to be offline.

Use GoTalkMobile, a mobile Google Talk J2ME Client, and there you go, you can see all your "invisible" friends straight away! Your friends who are "Invisible", will be shown in the contact list as "Offline".

You will need an active GPRS/EDGE/CDMA/WI-FI connection on your mobile phone. (Data transfer charges will apply depending on your service provider). Point your mobile phone browser to wap.gotalkmobile.com to download and install. After you install GoTalkMobile, go to Options > Contact List and select "Show Offline Contacts". That's it, you are done! Scroll down in your contact list and find your hiding buddies!

Now, if you don't want to use your mobile phone and want to do this on your computer, it is possible. GoTalkMobile is a mobile application, so we cant just install and expect it to work on a computer. We will simulate a mobile phone with the help of an emulator and make GoTalkMobile work on the computer.

Follow these easy steps, and we should be done in minutes.

1) Click here to download SJBoy Emulator. Unzip it, run the setup file and follow the instructions to install it.

2) Go to the GoTalkMobile download page and download the mobile version of GoTalkMobile. You will have to choose your version for a particular phone. You can choose your version for Nokia 3100, Nokia N70, Motorola V300 or Sony Ericcson K750, whatever interface you are comfortable with. Make sure you download the "JAR" file to your computer.

3) Right click on this "JAR" file and open it with the SJBoy Emulator. From the "Choose Phone" menu, select the phone for which you have downloaded GoTalkMobile.

4) Use this emulator exactly the way you would use your phone, by clicking on the keypad to make inputs. Put in your Google Talk login details, go to Options > Contact List and select "Show Offline Contacts", and start scrolling your contact list!


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Set your Google Talk status to "IDLE" at all times

Being "Invisible" on Google Talk is a good way to stay away from everyone when you are online, but do not want to be disturbed. But what if you want to be visible when someone important has to contact you, but at the same time you don't want to be disturbed by others?

www.galwaysidle.com has come up with a solution for this. You can set your Google Talk status to "Always Idle" or "Never Idle". All you need to do is install the setup, start your Google Talk desktop client, right click it and choose your setting.

The gAlwaysIdle website does not seem to work, but here is an alternative link for the gAlwaysIdle Setup.

gAlwaysIdle Setup


Related:
Find "Invisible" friends on Google Talk
Different ways to use Google Talk