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Our reader, Anirudh Mehta, discovered a bug in Google Talk’s invisible status feature available in its Gmail Chat version. If use smartly, you can figure out if the girl next door is really invisible or avoiding you.Continue reading : Bug in Google Talk’s Invisible Status FeatureHere are steps:
- Set the chat as off the record with target user (how?). This can be done only when the other user is online. (need help?)
- Now try sending chat to that user when he is invisible or offline.
- If he is invisible, then he will receive chat.
- But if he Is offline, then you will receive error “username did not receive your chat”.
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wow. thanks for that.. will try if it works..
It works Man n its great though there are sum restrictions but hey [b]sumthin is better than Nothing.[b]
Million Thnx.
it's not completely OK.
i want to kno abt the invisible users on gmail chat withour sending any msg to him/her and without going "off the record". means just a scanner which can detect invisible users. is thr any..???
I'm not sure if this works or not but I hope it will work. I'm looking forward for this.
it doent work
it works!
ohhh great.. and why don´t you say "hello , i am trying to know if you are online, i am a stupid" .. come on !! this sucks.
you can also find some extra features on the labs version of other Google products which allows you to make yourself invisible but it does not always override the gtalk client software if you have that installed
http://mwolk.com/blog/how-to-stay-and-chat-invisible-and-as-offline-in-gtalk/
finally a way to detect invisible user in gmail without sending them any message, check out my blog
http://sharathb814.blogspot.com/2009/05/find-invisible-users-in-gmail-gtalk.html
Thanks,
Sharath
It works dude.. Nice.. "Every thing can be cracked.." This is proved yet again..
Here is a perl script to find invisible users in gmail. It checks for all users in your contacts.
http://blog.sriunplugged.com/linux/find-invisible-users-in-gmail/
its not working at every time
YEAH IT IS NOT TRUE THAT.
I HAVE AN OTHER ACCOUNT ON GMAIL, AND I SENT MESSAGES TO IT (OBVIOUSLY THAT IN THE OTHER ACCOUNT I AM OFFLINE), AND THE MESSAGES WERE RECEIVED TO THE OTHER MAIL, AND DID NOT GET THE RED WARNING SAYING THAT MESSAGE WAS NOT DELIVERED!!
I THINK THAT METHOD DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE!
another way is when you log on, the chat list will quickly flash the names of the people who are online and invisible, and then complete the list.
no this is not true. it doesn't flash anything like that
there is a better method. when you log on to gmail, pay attention to the chatlist. for a second or so, it shows everyone who are online. the invisible people will appear just below the visible ones for a moment and then will quickly go down to their alphabetically assigned places.
@Anonymous 5 April :it's true but it doesnt work always
its works pal
Hello
I have made a small java program which can find invisible users/buddies in gmail and users/buddy who has blocked you in gmail easily.
Please visit the site to get the software. A recent update version gives all the combined solution.
Please visit this link http://vyompvblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/find-invisible-users-of-gtalk-gmail.html ; visit the latest update mentioned in the site to get the blocking users too.
it doesnt work if the target is using another browser or something.like u r using google chrome and that person is using internet explorer.....does it?
If people respected the busy status, it would probably be unnecessary to have the option "invisible"