We saw the future of Google Talk at CES in January and now you can test it for yourself. Of course, the biggest change is the ability to have avatars but there are also some other changes.

There are quite a few people that are excited about the new Windows Live Messenger and especially the face lift it has undergone. Microsoft has updated the GUI a few times throughout the course of the betas and now here is a screenshot of what to expect from the final release.

Fosfor Gadgets has put together a list of 10 keyboards that you will not find in every home. I found the keyboard above (prevents cramping in your hands) to be the most unique out of the list but I would say all of them are quite a site to see.

AllOfMP3 is one of the most popular Russian Music sites that offer music for just pennies. They charge $0.02 per MB and you can get the songs in many different formats. Now, AllOfMP3 has released software that will allow you to download from their site along with full-length previews of the song (at a lower bitrate of course). The software was obviously named after Apple's iTunes software.

Gaim is definitely taking the instant messaging industry by storm and putting up a challenge for Trillian to stay alive.

Many users that have been trying the latest version of Opera can now use the GMail Chat features that everyone loves. It is actually a simple process to do this:

It appears that Google is releasing a few more new features to GMail. The features being added are not as huge as the GTalk was but they are still nice to have. You will now be able to add smilies, create tables, insert images, and insert HTML into any message that you compose. Now, before you get excited and go to check it out I will let you know that not everyone has received these features.

PayPal is putting up a fight with the TextPayMe service with the recent release of a mobile payment service. This service will allow you to send money to another person or to make a payment for an item. If you wanted to send money to someone else then you could just text the payment amount and the phone number that you wanted to send the payment to.

If you are going to be creating a new site soon, then here are some great templates that you can use for starting. These templates are very well put together and they have a ton of them to choose from.

Microsoft has put together a very informative movie on the new Office 2007 that is supposed to be released in January 2007. They have many key points that they cover to help new users familiarize themselves before even receiving the software. Some of these key points are the Office Menu, the Ribbon, and the Contextual Tabs.