[?]What's the best IM client for Mac OS X
I have been looking for "some thing" that will let me do all in one client. iChatAV is really great, but I'd like to get a client on the side that is really Mac OS X (i. e. UI metaphor is Aqua/Mac like) and can do:
- AIM
- ICQ
- Jabber
- possible others
- allows me to have multiple account online at the same time!
Any suggestions?
- AIM
- ICQ
- Jabber
- possible others
- allows me to have multiple account online at the same time!
Any suggestions?
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http://fire.sourceforge.net/
http://www.indigofield.com/
Any help would be great
Originally posted by bobpensik
does anyone know if you can do anything to use Trillian on Mac???? like can you do anything with UNIX or something?? i use trillain on my PC and it is a great multi chat program and would love to transfer it to my Mac
Any help would be great
In my above post, I mention Protues and Fire. These are both multi-service programs.
In other words, no, you can't use Trillian on a Mac.
In short, AIM is the best. I will check out proteus but I doubt I will find much difference...I'll let you know.
Proteus = No Groups?
AIM is great, only problem is how the whole program lags while you are sending a file with a direct image connection
Originally posted by Dog Almighty
Hmm? if third parties can make apps to login to multiple IM connections, wouldn't it be pretty easy for Apple to add MSN connectivity to iChat? I'd like that?
I bet it's completely doable, but they probably have some deal with AOL not to open iChat to other services.
Originally posted by ast3r3x
Havn't uses proteus in the past 6 months but I didn't really like the interface then.
In short, AIM is the best. I will check out proteus but I doubt I will find much difference...I'll let you know.
Proteus = No Groups?
AIM is great, only problem is how the whole program lags while you are sending a file with a direct image connection
It just got updated to Proteus 3...I don't know what has changed.
I'm basically using iChat at the moment, because of the system-wide integration.
Originally posted by Placebo
It just got updated to Proteus 3...I don't know what has changed.
Not sure...it looks about the same I think. I am not sure how you can use anything other then AIM. I mean it has all the features except A/V, and honestly I doubt many people use that regularly. Also except for the adds, I like the interface. If only they would combine the "My Account Settings" and "Preferences" I'd be set...well minus that banner.
You can cluster people who have more than one account into a single entry ( everyone I know has ICQ and MSN ).
The options for how windows pop up are good.
The interface is simple and clean.
It seperates online/offline/management into seperate tabs, which is a bit odd. But you get used to it.
Development is a bit slow, but its good enough anyway ( no obvious bugs, missing features in my view ).
Cool ability to speak various events ( I have it speak when users log on ).
Originally posted by mmmpie
I use Fire, its really nice.
You can cluster people who have more than one account into a single entry ( everyone I know has ICQ and MSN ).
The options for how windows pop up are good.
The interface is simple and clean.
It seperates online/offline/management into seperate tabs, which is a bit odd. But you get used to it.
Development is a bit slow, but its good enough anyway ( no obvious bugs, missing features in my view ).
Cool ability to speak various events ( I have it speak when users log on ).
Had no luck, neither with fire nor with Proteus. It somehow just did not work, or behave wierd. Besides that, UIs are all but intuitive, and no manuals. I think I'd like to just run iChat multiple times ;-)
Originally posted by Aquatic
AOHell is so queer. If they simply opened up then all the 3rd party apps could use AIM properly. Now however, there is no choice. No app comes close to AIM X for features. File transfers, Direct Connect, etc are all mandatory. The new phone stuff is cool too, I may use that someday. The courts should force AIM to open up or something. It's like AT&T not having the same phone service. And especially if they can control Apple and iChat AV. Apple should add Jabber, ICQ, possibly MSN if they allow full or almost full implementation (or they can achieve this through open source stuff), and Yahoo. Maybe even IRC without the IRC. The point would be the put them all in iChat transparently. IRC especially is just fscking annoying to use. Spam, weird commands, programs with horridly complicated interfaces like ircle. And eventually make the AV of iChat AV compatible. Well one can hope.
AOL should open up a little..since their client is the slowest and the only Carbon one!
Proteus costs money, so I'm not saying anything else about that
Fire, well, it's a good client. The font size getting too small annoys me though (it gets too small to read when someone sends a small font size), and you can't set a default font color.
iChat is working its way toward being a good client. Talk needs to be supported in more areas than iChat AV-iChat AV, we should be able to send at least a font color to people who don't use iChat
And Adium..well, it's low featured at the moment.
Originally posted by Malokata
MSN's just cut itself off from third party software, CNET reports.
Idiots. Don't they realize that eventually they're going to kill themselves by being so proprietary in their 'standards'? Not that I'll complain.