Here and There

Google Talk celebrates its first birthday today.

I’ve mostly been using the Google Talk app (Windows only) at work, but the product is just as elegant in its browser-based form. There, you can either chat in your Gmail window, or pop-out the conversation to its own window. Nice touch.

At home, I use Google Talk though the iChat client on my Mac. Another job well done, Google team.

In other (depressing and disappointing) tech news, Apple announced a massive laptop battery recall today, and I barely survived. (I have an “antiquated” iBook G4, but it’s 14-inches, not 12.)

From questionable business practices and potential technological plagiarism to faulty engineering, Apple’s track record seems to have become a victim of the company’s iPod-oriented largesse. To put it mildly, it hasn’t been a good week for Apple.

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