Web Talk

After Skype for PSP, Nokia N810 and Sony Mylo, a version of the famous software has been recently released just for Java-enabled cellphones. This beta version is compatible with all the major cellphone brands. So far, around 50 cellphones are supported (for a complete list visit Skype website here). Skype for your mobile lets you use all those features included in the original Skype such as: Skype contacts, instant messenger, group chat, phone calls. The use of this mini Skype version is limited to the following counties: Brazil, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Sweden, and the U.K. Its download is for free but not its use. As a matter of fact you still need to pay the normal national or local rate plus an extra fee for Skype-out depending where you are calling to. This makes the use of Skype mobile more convenient for International phone calls. There are anyway certain kinds of limitations as far as international calls are concerned. Reading from Skype’s website: “ We strongly recommend that you use Skype for your mobile beta in your home country only as your mobile operator may charge you very high calling and data fees and roaming charges when using it abroad.” As far as data transfer is concerned: “ There’s a data charge from your operator. A person with 20 contacts, who’s online for 1 hour, IMs for 10 minutes and has a 20 minute call each day will use about 1MB of data per month. The more data you use, the higher your charges may be.” All these limitations and extra fees could make its use far less popular than is computer counterpart. To download it, visit this page.

If you are a webmaster you know only too well how important to speak with your visitors is. This, not only to solve some issue or questions they may have about your blog, but also to link them to it, so that they will come back to see what is new. A wonderful and easy solution to start talking with your visitors is to open a chat to speak with them while online. Hab.la is a website offering you such a service for free. Basically, Hab.la is an easy-to-use chat to integrate in your blog. It doesn’t need any extra software nor special requirements to work, plus it is very simple to install. It works with Safari, Firefox, IE6, IE7, and Opera and rely on any Jabber client (such as: Meebo. Trillian. Pidgin. iChat …) to operate. Reading from the website: ” Hab.la lets visitors to your website chat with you without any extra chat software. Their messages show up in your favorite instant messaging app. Hab.la is easy for webmasters to set up and friendly to your visitors’ web browsers. Better yet, Hab.la is free.” I like the idea these guys have got. Chatting is a wonderful way to entartain your visitors, above all if you want your blog to get away from the idea somebody might have about it being cold, deserted and with no life. Showing the webmaster online gives people the impression they are not alone, and can get help whenever they want. Again, great idea!

Have you ever wished to chat on your nice Zire 72, TX handheld, Palm Treo and all those devices Palm powered? If your reply is “Yes”, then I have got the right software for you. Mundu is a nice software that lets you do what till some time ago was unthinkable: chat online with your friends on a palm handheld! This nice, wonderful but rather unknown piece of software is quite rich of features:

• Compatible with Yahoo, AIM, MSN and ICQ.
• Independent Mundu Messaging Service.
• Wizard procedure to connect your device to the Internet.
• Cross Conferencing to chat with people having different Messaging Services.
• Background mode to continue working on your device while chatting at the same time.
• Emoticons.
• Rich text to customize the font and the color of your writing.
• Status (online, busy, offline, invisible etc.).

I have this software on my Treo 650 and I have to tell you that I like it a lot. It is very light and fast and require no knowledge to make it work. It is ideal if you want to stay in touch with your friends and family while on the go! If you want to know more about it click here.