We all love Google Talk for a bunch of reasons, but one thing which I always felt as missed out from Google Talk was the ability to appear offline to your contacts. Both Yahoo and Windows Live Messenger had this feature sine a long time, and they allowed me to stealthily chat with my close buddies, while staying focused on my work.
Gmail’s built-in chat has now added a new status – "invisible", which does exactly the same thing. You can appear offline to your contacts by choosing "invisible" from the drop down status menu. With the invisible status, your contacts can’t see you online, but you’ll still be able to see their presence or even chat with them.
If you are using Google Talk’s standalone client or gadget, then this feature is not available to you. Unfortunately, Google seems to have forgotten about Google Talk desktop client. We can’t really blame them because Gmail chat is the most widely used flavor of GTalk!
[Via: Google OS]
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