toksta*

Being a big fan of Googles new browser Chrome, we were always anxious to add support for chrome asap. In the first version this was not possible due to missing cross domain support of the browser. Since the new release of v2.0 (get it here) we could finally make it work. So now you can enjoy toksta with all major browsers: IE 6, 7 & 8, Firefox 3, Safari (Mac) and Google Chrome 2.0.  Enjoy!

Tags: chrome, new features, supported browsers

Today we released the beta version of our toksta chat rooms application. I can’t remember if there has ever been a feature (or rather an application) requested as heavily as the chat room!! And as requested we kept the UI simple and clean to minimize chances that the layout of the chat room does not fit the design of your community. Or in other words: to maximize the possibility for you to customize the chat. Because similar to our toksta video im, the chat is fully design customizable through css.

The beta version of the chat room also features:

• up to 25 people per room
• unlimited private chats
• css design customization
• easy administration and user moderation
• a lightweight html and javascript client
• and much more!

If you register as a new user at www.toksta.com, you get a 15-day free trial on all plans and applications including the chat room application. After the 15-day free trial, we charge 15.00 USD per 30 days for each chat room. If you have an existing toksta account, please check if you are still in the trial period in order test the chat room for free for the remaining days.

And as always: Please let us know your feedback and questions at support [at] toksta [dot] com

- Felix

Tags: beta, chat room, new release

Today we have launched version 1.3 of the toksta instant messenger. The main changes in this release were related to our chat server technology which substantially improved the reliability and scalability of the IM.

But that’s by far not everything. Here is a list of the major changes in this release:

• We added 13 more languages for the instant messenger. The toksta client is now available in English, German, French, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Ukrainian, Hebrew, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Bulgarian (many thanks to André Moniz from amiguinhos who has helped us with the Portugues version!)
• You can choose the language of client yourself in our backend. Before the language of the client was set to the default browser language automatically
• You get noticed when your chat partner closes the window
• toksta now also supports ASP.net and Python and
• You can use the toksta IM with phpFox (Social Networking Software)

We also added even more ways to customize the toksta IM. We’ll write a detailed blog post about this in our How-to Series soon…so stay tuned!

Tags: new release, releasenote

Good news for all Bloggers: Today we released a wordpress plugin for our toksta instant messenger! This time Bastian Nutzinger from wallstreet-online hit the keyboard, wrote a plugin for wordpress and sent us his work - thanks a lot! To download the plugin just register and go to the “implementation” area of our backend.

Wordpress Plugin for toksta

Tags: plugins, wordpress

Today we are proud to announce our new release with long awaited and heavily requested features:

Probably the most interesting feature is what we call “the facebook-like chat bar”. Just take a look at the screenshot below and you will get the idea:

As you can see, the chat-bar is placed at the very bottom of the screen to be always visible but never disturbing.

The next screenshot shows the online user search.

And the next screenshot (no, I am not color blind…) pretty much demonstrates the options for the chat bar design customization:

You can change:

• The chat background color of the bar and the titles (pink)
• The background color of the tab hover (turquoise)
• The bordercolor (dark blue)
• The text color (white) and font
• The background color of the layer (bright geen)

Furthermore you can activate or de-activate

• the friendslist
• the search filter
• the gender and
• the display of the number of online users.

Just go to our customer backend at toksta.com (see screenshot):

Read also our coverage on mashable.com!

Tags: chat bar, facebook, new release, news features

Getting more and more requests regarding toksta* from all over Europe and even the U.S., we are soon going to release toksta in the following languages:

• english
• french
• spanish
• russian
• polish
• turkish

So stay tuned and bookmark our RSS Feed

Tags: languages