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The out-of-the-box alternative to FaceTime isn’t all that bad. Hangouts is Google’s service for both real-time text chat and video. One of the best things about it is that it’s massively cross-platform and linked to your Google ID. Not only does Hangouts work great on every Android phone, you can take it to your desktop—even your Mac desktop. Hangouts replaced Google Talk as the native chat app within Gmail (and Google+, but let’s not talk about that) a few years back, and the team has refined it a lot since then. A cool about Hangouts is that it works beyond simple person-to-person...

1 (Worst) You will be assigned an IP address to enjoy full network services with your friends - just as they would be sitting next to you. No special setup is needed to establish connection. Wippien uses NAT traversal techniques to penetrate NAT devices and make direct connections between peers. You can access your friends' shares, printers, services, desktop, even ping them through IP you see next to their name. Wippien uses popular WeOnlyDo wodVPN component to establish P2P between peers, and then simply redirects all traffic from Virtual Network Adapter through wodVPN to remote side. Easy,...

The life and death of Hangouts: A Google tragedy The transition from Hangouts to Google Chat is now happening in earnest, with many even reporting that their group conversations have moved between the two platforms. It's just a matter of time until Hangouts itself is retired, so let's take a moment to look back at Google's most successful — and, perhaps, most ignored — messaging platform. Just one more messaging service, promise Hangouts debuted at Google I/O 2013. It started as a means of unifying Google's then-fragmented messaging approach — ironically, the same justification for its ...

Reply All’s Test Kitchen controversy explained: Gimlet ends Bon Appétit podcast!   Reply All has scrapped its Test Kitchen miniseries on Bon Appétit’s toxic workplace, following allegations of their own toxic workplace. The Test Kitchen was a miniseries by hugely popular podcast Reply All, which sought to investigate into Bon Appétit’s workplace controversy of last year. In 2020, Bon Appétit faced a reckoning of sorts after a long line of staffers left over allegation relating to the work treatment of people of colour. In a Test Kitchen inception, Reply All has faced almost identic...

Riccardo Mori My recent article, The reshaped Mac experience, received a lot of attention judging from the response on Twitter and the WordPress analytics — apparently, among other places, it reached Hacker News and Reddit. Unlike my four-part series  ‌Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth, however, it didn’t attract any hate mail at all. The sheer majority of feedback I received was very positive, with many many people agreeing with me and my observations. A few — some provocatively, some genuinely curious — asked me something along the lines of, Well, if you dislike t...