Well, after some browsing of the Google Talk forums it looks like I’m not the only one working on a list of hacks etc. for Google Talk….

Wumpus has put together a more comprehensive list…. including these (very handy) ideas:

Conference Calls

What you need to do to have conference calls:

Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference.

After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of it add /nomutex.

If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read “C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex.

Open 2 instances of the software on every user’s computer.

After this start a chain:

User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2.

User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3.

User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1.

With this chain everyone is connected to everyone

Nickname & Status Message

To change your nickname you need to go to you account properties in your Gmail account and change the name there.As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two.

You can add a website in your away message, it will be clickable in conversation windows.

“Secret” Parameters

/nomutex: allows you to open more than one instance of Google Talk.

/factoryreset: set settings back to default.

/mailto email@host.com: send an email with Gmail.

/s upgrade: used when upgrading Google Talk.