Google Talk on Port 80
This is a very short tutorial on how to connect to Gmail using Pidgin over port 80. Some of my beloved readers behind the Great Firewall of China and some on really restrictive networks have requested this. Enjoy.
1. Download and install Pidgin client.
2. Configure the client with the following settings do not make changes to anything that I don't specify in here:
Note: If you already have it install pull it up and go to: Accounts > Manage Accounts > Add
Basic (tab)
Login Options:
Protocol: Google Talk or XMPP
Username: Your Gmail username
Domain: gmail.com
Resource: Gmail
Password: Your Gmail password
Check the box Remember Password
Advanced (tab)
Require SSL/TLS: checked
Force old (port 5223) SSL: un-checked
Connect port: 80
3. Click Save
Adding Meebo to your Website
Meebo is great I use it every day. It's the best free online chat program that I know of. It allows you to centralize all of your contacts into one online location. (Think having one messenger for: AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, MySpace, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber...) Sounds amazing right. Well it is ! If this is the first time you have even heard about Meebo I would suggest going to their website and signing up for an account after you log in to your Meebo account you will be able to start adding all of your messenger accounts to it.
The cherry on top is that you can now embed a Meebo messenger in your websites so that people can chat with your while you are logged into your online Meebo account. This is really easy to do and the chat application even tells your visitors when you are not online so that they can leave you a message.
In order to make this all happen you will need to get the code that will create the chat application from Meebo. From inside your Meebo account click on Accounts > meebo me! > Add A New Widget Give it a cool name this is what will show at the top of your chat application. As you can see I named the one on this site: "Live Chat" and select a size that you think you might like then click Create A New Widget. Since not everybodys websites look the same we can now go in and customize the colors of the chat application. To do this click on Accounts > meebo me! > Modify (For the widget you want to customize) There are some really cool default color schemes you can select from or you can make your own. When done press Done duh! 
The html code required to created your chat application on the fly is located here: Accounts > meebo me! > Widget embed: You will need to copy all of the text from that text field and add it to your website.
In my case I simply created a new Text Widget in my WordPress Administrator Panel: Appearance > Widgets > Text I like to do it this way because the Text Widgets allows me to place my little Meebo Me! chat application wherever I want to in my Sidebar. Hope you enjoyed learning more about how to set up a Meebo Me! widget on your website.
Where are my Skype images saved ?
I've recently ran into this issue when trying to finally set up an avatar for all of my social networks/userid's. I knew that Skype would let you take screenshots of yourself if you have a camera: Tools > Options > General > video settings > Take a video snapshot however I couldn't really use the image on anything else but Skype since I didn't know where skype saved pics. I'd rather have the same avatar across the board so I did a little research.
Here is how to find your Skype images on your computer. First Make sure you can see hidden files and folders. To check this you will have to go to Control Panel > Folder Options > Click on the View Tab > Under the Hidden files and folders section make sure that > Show hidden files, folders, and drives is selected.
Now the very intuitive 
location of your images is in this previously hidden folder:
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Skype\Pictures
Of coures replace YOURUSERNAME with your user name 
Pretty easy if you know the right steps to take. Now I'm sure you don't want to have to remeber that ridiculous location every time you want to look though those pictures. My suggestion would be to create a shortcut to it. You can easily do this by first browsing to the desired location IE: Pictures folder or wherever you'd like and then right-click on empty space > New > Shortcut For location use: C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Skype\Pictures > Next > Name it > Finish Having this setup seems a lot more logical for me and you apparently not yet for Skype.
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