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New Gizmo5 Utility - GizmoCall
Blog I've just received an announcement from the Gizmo5 people of their latest feature - Gizmocall. It is an Adobe Flash based utility for making audio calls, either free PC-to-PC for other Gizmo5 users, or to PSTN (land line or mobile) numbers.
[December 17, 2008, 13:27]
Gizmo5 Adds Two-Way SMS Chat
Blog Another good announcement from Gizmo5 this week. They have added the ability to have two-way SMS chats. It has been possible to send SMS messages from Gizmo fro quite some time; what's new in this is that the SMS recipient can send an SMS reply...
[May 23, 2008, 14:16]
Gizmo5 Offers Free Conference Calling
Blog Gizmo5 is offering their users free access to conference calls for up to ten participants. No tricks, no strings, you just request a conference room number, and then give that number to the others whom you want to participate in the call.
[October 23, 2008, 13:15]
Gizmo5 - Powerful, Portable Messaging
Blog I mentioned recently that I use Gizmo5 for most of my text messaging. This is in part because I like the interface, which is clean and easy to read, and in part because it lets me pull most of my different text message services together in a single...
[April 2, 2008, 12:03]
New Gizmo5 for Windows Release
Blog When it rains, it pours! Gizmo5 came out with a new release today (4.0.3.383), which makes some nice improvements and cleans up some old problems. I use Gizmo extensively for text chat (every day with my brother, for example), and for phone access...
[July 29, 2008, 11:12]
Gizmo5 - The New Beta from The Gizmo Project
Blog Well, as I suspected at the beginning of the week, this has been an eventful one. First an excellent new release from ooVoo, followed by a sputtering mess from Skype full of the same old bugs, and now there is a new release from The Gizmo Project.
[February 7, 2008, 19:57]
Google Voice acquires VoIP client Gizmo5
News Google confirmed on Thursday its intention to acquire Gizmo5, an internet telephony company, with plans to merge the group into the Google Voice team. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Gizmo5 is a web-based VoIP client that lets users...
[November 13, 2009, 8:25]
Gizmo Adds Business Enhancements and More IM Networks
Blog Gizmo5 (formerly The Gizmo Project) has been my preferred program for IM text chat and audio calls (including PSTN calls worldwide) for quite some time now. The chat interface is clean and easy to read, and it has an excellent history facility, so...
[May 16, 2008, 8:29]
Gizmo Project 4 - with Video Support
Blog Comment I work for the company that develops Gizmo Project. First of all thank you for trying our beta product. As we discussed before I would like to work with you personally to resolve the problems you are having.
[January 23, 2008, 18:59]
Real Desperation at Skype?
Blog Ok, I might have been wrong. It is certainly starting to look like I was, although I'm not quite ready to give up yet. It looks like the battle between Skype and JoltID might be more than a publicity stunt with a predetermined outcome.
[October 14, 2009, 14:03]
New IM Application "Nimbuzz"
Blog As my interest is primarily in video chat / IM programs, I generally don't pay much attention to announcements of products without video. However, the announcement for "Nimbuzz" caught my eye, and sounded rather interesting, so I've downloaded it...
[May 14, 2008, 15:10]
meebo - Browser based multi-system IM chat
Blog I have been looking at meebo, an IM chat program that is entirely browser-based (thus nothing to download and install), and in addition to its own account allows you to register your AIM, Yahoo! Google Talk and MSN accounts, so you can chat with...
[August 13, 2008, 10:34]
Taking Out the Skype Garbage
Blog Comment Of course there is, it's just a question of how much you want, and how flexible you and your contacts are. If you only want text chat, there are LOTS of alternatives. If you want audio chat, there is Gizmo5 for example.
[November 15, 2009, 13:59]
Quad Boot - Friday Update - It's Good!
Blog After nearly a full week of working with this quad-boot setup in various stages of completion, I can say that I am very pleased. It is working well and it is allowing me to easily compare the three different versions of Linux, which is just what I...
[July 4, 2008, 15:23]
Video IM / VoIP - Where are we now?
Blog I started this blog to talk about Video IM and related issues. While I have wandered here and there, I've always come back to that, because it is what I care about. I think it's time to take a fresh look at where we, as users, stand, and what the...
[March 27, 2008, 10:00]
Skype Roundup - Heart Warming, Heart Breaking
Blog Comment Don, Thanks for reading and commenting. I'm rather bemused that you think I am a bit hard on Skype, and yet you have personally experienced calls which are lacking quality, and they suddenly started charging you a VERY significant amount for calls?
[September 25, 2008, 21:01]
Skype - This is "Improved" Customer Support?
Blog Comment Jamie, unfortunately I may have to add my name to the list of paying customers in the end being ignored by Skype. I have supported them, in a measure at least, to this point. Oh, I can say a little in their support, they did issue me a 10 euro...
[October 22, 2008, 17:01]
Skype Presence Reporting Incorrect/Unreliable
Blog Andy Abramson reports in his VoIP Watch blog about trying out the iSkoot client for Skype on the new Android G1. One of his comments in particular caught my eye. Presence isn't working right. I never saw my entire Skype buddy list as the presence...
[October 27, 2008, 8:19]
SightSpeed Acquired By Logitech
Blog Comment @PeterH - it's certainly not presumptuous, it's a very good question, it goes right to the heart of what is happening in the video IM market today, and I'm always happy to engage in an interesting discussion.
[October 30, 2008, 16:32]
Two New Linux Beta Distributions
Blog If you're interested in new Linux distributions, here are a couple of new Betas that I have taken a quick look at: PCLinuxOS 2009 Beta 2. Although this distribution is derived from Mandriva, they don't attempt to track Mandriva's 6-month release...
[December 12, 2008, 9:37]
