It’s nice to see that Google has finally implemented some the features of other gChat iterations into the integrated gmail talk application. Today we are seeing the group chat and smileys added to gChat for gmail. It’s about time we start seeing features from the three iterations of gChat to start merging. Now only if we can get some file transfer action! Get more details after the jump. [via]

I’ve been playing around with Adobe AIR applications today just to find out what’s new. So that being said, this post has been brought to you by a little AIR application called Bee that combines Wordpress and Flickr for some blog posting goodness. This is just a test post and we’ll see how it goes.

Today my friend made a post about why he hates telephones that I found rather amusing but so true. It basically goes into why current ‘first world’ societies find it necessary to stay in constant communication. I added the whole ‘first world’ thing in there to sound more intellectual cause I rarely get a chance… his article is more of a rant about ‘people’. We really don’t need to worry about ‘third world’ societies calling us at all hours of the day… yet. I have a cellphone that costs me megabucks every month, and I still have...

So I’ve been getting a little back into gaming lately. I haven’t really played video games since I had my daughter. Now that she’s two… things are getting a little easier and I have a little extra time. Lately the laptop has been my game machine mostly because it’s with me when I have a little extra time. Although casual games run fine on it, I have a little trouble running stuff like Half-Life 2 on it sometimes. Recently I formatted my desktop machine and went strictly Ubuntu. It worked out fine as my fiance really only tools around on the internet. However,...

Today comes the long awaited announcement of the now infamous gPho….wha?… there was no gPhone announced today! Turns out it wasn’t a phone at all, well I guess it depends on how you look at it. This morning Google along with many other partners announced the Open Handset Alliance. What is this you say? Basically it’s a bunch of companies banding together to stop the insanity that is today’s mobile phone. The goal so far is to make your mobile handset work the way you think it should. The alliance consists of partners such Google (of course), Motorola, Qualcomm,...