Reader Sean’s desktop proves that Linux can be bright, colourful and geeky all at the same time—there’s no reason to be stuck with brown.
Tinychat is a powerful service that offers a lot of web meet-up power from one link you share with participants. Once they arrive, participants can stream webcam video and audio, display desktop portions, share files and talk in plain old text.
Windows: You’ve got a web page, a file folder and a chat window open, and they’re all about the same project. WindowTabs, a free-to-try utility, can group together all those app windows with top-most, Google-Chrome-like tabs.