{"id":46,"date":"2011-08-29T11:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T06:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/askadmin.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2015-04-07T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T08:47:56","slug":"playing-with-gtalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/playing-with-gtalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Gtalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our business needs us \u00a0to stay \u00a0online \u00a0always and make ourselves available to \u00a0our clients . But at home , it may not possible to sit\u00a0in front\u00a0of \u00a0computer and wait for the customers to buzz . \u00a0So my\u00a0requirements\u00a0for gtalk were ,<\/p>\n<p>One I wanted it to never go idle ,So that my clients will know that I am available \u00a0and the second, \u00a0I want the\u00a0Gtalk chat alert sound more louder so that I can hear it from all \u00a0corners of my home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To stay always available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hangouts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gtalk<\/a> , I found a small application called gAlwaysidle (http:\/\/www.<strong>galwaysidle<\/strong>.com \u00a0, I dont know why their site is down now) . You just need to run the application and right click \u00a0on gtalk icon on taskbar and select the option wether \u00a0you want to keep gtalk always idle or\u00a0never idle\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/2011\/08\/29\/playing-with-gtalk\/galwaysidle\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-48\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-48\" title=\"gAlwaysIdle\" src=\"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/gAlwaysIdle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"219\" height=\"357\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now , my second requirement is changing the default chat alert sound .<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded resource tuner trail version from http:\/\/www.restuner.com\/download.htm\u00a0\u00a0and opened Gtalk.exe application with it .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now i could change few things in gtalk like default icons and \u00a0default dialogs .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I selected 121 wave file under wave directory and selected edit resource from where I can replace it with my custom \u00a0sound file \u00a0( before editing the file I did backup the file by clicking on <em>Save Resource As<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/2011\/08\/29\/playing-with-gtalk\/chnage-alert-sound\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52 alignleft\" title=\"chnage alert sound\" src=\"https:\/\/askadmin.com\/aa\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/chnage-alert-sound.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our business needs us \u00a0to stay \u00a0online \u00a0always and make ourselves available to \u00a0our clients . 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