I use Gtalk and I simply love it because of its simplicity. There is a very clean interface without any disturbing elements. The windows open fast and overall its a pleasant experience to use Gtalk.

Now, the feature that I miss the most in Gtalk is that of being invisible to your friends as you can do in Yahoo/MSN easily. But Gtalk simply does not have this feature of being “idle”.

There is a nice little trick to bypass this restriction in Gtalk. A nice and handy program which completely fits into Gtalk interface and is completely invisible. The name is GAlwaysIdle

This can be used to change your status message as you want.

There is one more trick to achieve the almost same effect but that is not from the desktop application of Gtalk. It is by using the Google Gadget‘

Enjoy!