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Get to talk with your friends through Goober for free. You can chat for free, set audio conferencing and even call up or sms your friends with their special prices. Listen to music, watch tv, send files all for free.

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Contents
  1. Description
  2. System requirements
  3. Features
  4. Easter eggs
  5. Competitors
  6. Communities
  7. See also

Description

You must know that GOOBER is a free software ,very easy to install on your computer. Is in class of instant messaging programs not difficult to use and you can speak very easy with your friends. After installation you will create an account and you will receive a special numeric id from GOOBER .To activate your id you will receive an email with the activation link.

System requirements

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista Size: 12,147KB

Features

At this instant messaging software the principal feature is the option to call and send sms to a person and all that for free. To do that you must create a special account at them that you must pay. You will remark that in the main panel you have the keyboard of the telephone and the option to send sms. On the top window you will find a shortcut for your payments.

Another option at Goober is the view one, where you can sort in alphabetically order the contacts, from A to Z or from Z to A.

On Goober you can create your own conference free and invite whatever friends you want. Is a good option when you must speak an important thing or give a general task to many people.

If you want to make the person you talk with to pay attention you have the option shake other chat window.

Check out the cool emoticons you can share with your friends, they have sounds like Trillian software, but different of course. You can send files for free, see the chat history and create your own emoticons and pushes.

Easter eggs

A special thing at this free software is that you can manage your profile in three ways : personal data ,private profile and business one.A really good thing if you want your profile to be very explicit and if u use Goober for work.

A cool option at Goober is that you can watch TV from any country ,or you can listen to the radio,you just select the country from where are you from and then will automatically choose what programs you can see or what radio posts you can reach.

Another application of Goober is ,,Create goober ToGo” ,from here you create a medium to take goober and your personal contacts with you,wherever you go.

If you are a fan of music you can create your own playlist ,you can choose from your computer melodies in mp3 format and listen them on Goober.

A very cool thing at Goober is that you can take screenshots in different ways. So ,for example you can take a screenshot with countdown or you can take one with screen selection or with both. After that you can share it instantly with you friend.Also you can share a photo in different ways, like you can make it at full screen or make a list of them and put them on series. Star your photos you like most and those you will see more often.

When you are typing you will hear a sound, not the usual real one, but a special one set by them. Obviously you can turn off all this sounds if they bother you.

Competitors

Use Yahoo Chat for its chat rooms, web conferencing, video chat, phone conferencing and it’s all free.

Skype is a instant messaging software, but its main feature is the audio conferencing, and video conferencing too.

AOL Instant Messenger supports not only AOL users, but Yahoo too, MSN and others.

Google Talk

Communities

If you speak German you can join this Goober Forum you can find out more news about Goober.

See the Goober blog. You can catch up with everything on goober really in detail.

See also

See the prices for calling in each country on Price list Goober

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