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I seem to recall there's a URL you can use to access Gmail Chat directly without having the whole Gmail window. Does anyone know the URL?

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Try this one: Google Talk Gadget

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Been looking for this for a while - thanks. – mindless.panda Jun 16 '11 at 12:48
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You can access it directly from IGoogle.

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+1 - Also, not a webapp but you can download Google Talk. (Seems to be Windows only unfortunately.) – boehj Jun 15 '11 at 8:56
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boehj@ FYI, Google Talk is available from Linux platforms too.. – Andrejs Cainikovs Jun 15 '11 at 9:00
@Andrejs: Good to know. Cheers. – boehj Jun 15 '11 at 9:09
Here is a list of Google Talk compatible clients but I thought chat and talk were a little different...google.com/talk/otherclients.html – slotishtype Jun 15 '11 at 9:44
Correct. My bad, I'm using pidgin as Google Talk client. Native Google Talk client is available only for Windows. – Andrejs Cainikovs Jun 15 '11 at 11:25
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You should just be able to use any XMPP/Jabber client.

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you can use Meebo - you can have multiple IM accounts there (Gmail, ICQ, Jabber etc.). It is online, no need to install anything.

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you can try my favorite client Digsby!

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I stopped using Digsby the day they forced everyone to "donate" their idle time to "computational research" without asking (it's now an opt-out program) and kept trying to install toolbars I didn't want. They STILL haven't added a way to actually close and delete your Digsby account, despite that many users have requesting in since 2009 (they said in Sept 2009 it's a feature "coming to the website soon"). – Jared Harley Jun 15 '11 at 21:08
No problems with me, also, if you want to close your account you can tell them in the forums and they can take care of it (I know that's not the best way but thats a way at least) – l0Ft Jun 16 '11 at 5:16
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If you are on a mac Adium is my favorite chat client (mac only). Lets you add accounts from just about everything from AIM to IRC to Facebook Chat to GChat to Myspace and everything inbetween.

http://adium.im/

and they have a pretty sweet icon.

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