Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:12:16 -0500, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Also, is anyone successfully using GoogleTalk in Chrome on Gentoo? Yeah, it works for me: $ equery list google-chrome google-talkplugin * Searching for google-chrome ... [IP-] [ ] www-client/google-chrome-22.0.1229.94_p161065:stable * Searching for google-talkplugin ... [I--] [??] www-plugins/google-talkplugin-2.1.7.0:0 Strangely, I noticed that I've got those weird ??'s on the google-talkplugin package, which I guess means that I'm using a version that has been removed from Portage. I see that 3.7.1.0 and 3.9.1.0 are available in /usr/portage/www-plugins/google-talkplugin/, so perhaps I should upgrade to one of those. Are they not working for you? -- R
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:12:16 -0500, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Also, is anyone successfully using GoogleTalk in Chrome on Gentoo? Yeah, it works for me: $ equery list google-chrome google-talkplugin * Searching for google-chrome ... [IP-] [ ] www-client/google-chrome-22.0.1229.94_p161065:stable * Searching for google-talkplugin ... [I--] [??] www-plugins/google-talkplugin-2.1.7.0:0 Strangely, I noticed that I've got those weird ??'s on the google-talkplugin package, which I guess means that I'm using a version that has been removed from Portage. I see that 3.7.1.0 and 3.9.1.0 are available in /usr/portage/www-plugins/google-talkplugin/, so perhaps I should upgrade to one of those. Are they not working for you? -- R Thanks for the info. Actually I haven't tried any version yet. I was just curious about finding some app that might receive text message sent from a cell phone. I.e. - instead of giving my cell phone number which I'd rather keep private I might give a Google-Talk phone number and receive the messages at my desk. I think this can be done with Skype but you have to buy a phone number from them. It seems to me that Google gives theirs out for free, at least right now. I believe you are correct about the ?? versions. They aren't in portage here. Thanks again, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:38:48PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks for the info. Actually I haven't tried any version yet. I was just curious about finding some app that might receive text message sent from a cell phone. I.e. - instead of giving my cell phone number which I'd rather keep private I might give a Google-Talk phone number and receive the messages at my desk. I think this can be done with Skype but you have to buy a phone number from them. It seems to me that Google gives theirs out for free, at least right now. I believe you are correct about the ?? versions. They aren't in portage here. Thanks again, Mark There is a service called Google Voice. You get a phone number from them and can forward it to another phone. Also, it will send voice messages to your Google mail account, and even translate them (not well) to text. It will also send text messages. This was the number I put on my business cards (it's in my sig) so that I could receive calls to my cell number w/out actually giving it out. When someone calls 662-205-6424 it tells me I have a call from (and I assume they're asked to give their name), press 1 to accept. If I don't want to talk to them at that time, I don't answer, and they're routed to the voice mail. If they leave a message, it's sent to my Google account as a sound file and translated to text. That's the gist of it... When my one-year with this Android phone is up in Dec, we're getting iPhones and also canceling all the Google accounts and services. We don't agree with the new privacy policies they released March 1, 2012. Google was not a favorite before then, actually. But if we didn't keep the Google account we couldn't get updates to the Android phone. Which, by the way, is a piece of junk (Samsung Galaxy S). Android OS is basically Googles *borrowing* from Linux and OSS over the years, and they've done an amazingly poor job of it. Be that as it may ... Google Voice has been nice. If some sane and responsible party who valued privacy and freedom as we do had a similar service, we'd be interested. -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:38:48PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks for the info. Actually I haven't tried any version yet. I was just curious about finding some app that might receive text message sent from a cell phone. I.e. - instead of giving my cell phone number which I'd rather keep private I might give a Google-Talk phone number and receive the messages at my desk. I think this can be done with Skype but you have to buy a phone number from them. It seems to me that Google gives theirs out for free, at least right now. I believe you are correct about the ?? versions. They aren't in portage here. Thanks again, Mark There is a service called Google Voice. You get a phone number from them and can forward it to another phone. Also, it will send voice messages to your Google mail account, and even translate them (not well) to text. It will also send text messages. This was the number I put on my business cards (it's in my sig) so that I could receive calls to my cell number w/out actually giving it out. When someone calls 662-205-6424 it tells me I have a call from (and I assume they're asked to give their name), press 1 to accept. If I don't want to talk to them at that time, I don't answer, and they're routed to the voice mail. If they leave a message, it's sent to my Google account as a sound file and translated to text. That's the gist of it... When my one-year with this Android phone is up in Dec, we're getting iPhones and also canceling all the Google accounts and services. We don't agree with the new privacy policies they released March 1, 2012. Google was not a favorite before then, actually. But if we didn't keep the Google account we couldn't get updates to the Android phone. Which, by the way, is a piece of junk (Samsung Galaxy S). Android OS is basically Googles *borrowing* from Linux and OSS over the years, and they've done an amazingly poor job of it. Be that as it may ... Google Voice has been nice. If some sane and responsible party who valued privacy and freedom as we do had a similar service, we'd be interested. -- Happy Penguin Computers ') 126 Fenco Drive ( \ Tupelo, MS 38801 ^^ supp...@happypenguincomputers.com 662-269-2706 662-205-6424 http://happypenguincomputers.com/ Don't top-post: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post#Top-posting Bruce, As my interest (at this time, today only) is text message, does the Google Voice service accept text messages like a cell phone would or is it purely a voice service like a land line? Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome leftovers
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 20:06:26 -0500, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: As my interest (at this time, today only) is text message, does the Google Voice service accept text messages like a cell phone would or is it purely a voice service like a land line? It accepts them like a cell phone, and there is a web interface as well as an Android app to use it. -- R
