Fire, Proteus... what are you using?
Hello.
Fire, Proteus. Alternatives?
Like most things in life its impossible to make everyone use the same service. its impossible to make anything standard. So I was ecstatic to find out that I could talk to everyone with just one piece of software. ICQ MSN AIM.. under one little roof. the Idea is great, and is getting better. But I'm not convinced that that I'm getting the best service here. I can never receive files from anyone on any platform using any instant messenger. Also oddly Alison <my girlfriend> can chat with me unless I send her a message, she has to log on and off so I get that beep so I know shes there. Just now I set my mom up with MSN on her eMac so she can chat with single men who claim to be something they probably are not .. but I can't receive any of her messages, it tells me she is typing.. but I never get them, her mac is in the same room as mine..
anyway..
is fire the best? do you folks use these sorts of things? what am I to do?
switch? calling out for feed back.
thanks.
b.
Fire, Proteus. Alternatives?
Like most things in life its impossible to make everyone use the same service. its impossible to make anything standard. So I was ecstatic to find out that I could talk to everyone with just one piece of software. ICQ MSN AIM.. under one little roof. the Idea is great, and is getting better. But I'm not convinced that that I'm getting the best service here. I can never receive files from anyone on any platform using any instant messenger. Also oddly Alison <my girlfriend> can chat with me unless I send her a message, she has to log on and off so I get that beep so I know shes there. Just now I set my mom up with MSN on her eMac so she can chat with single men who claim to be something they probably are not .. but I can't receive any of her messages, it tells me she is typing.. but I never get them, her mac is in the same room as mine..
anyway..
is fire the best? do you folks use these sorts of things? what am I to do?
switch? calling out for feed back.
thanks.
b.
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I chose Fire because it was way better than mirabilis' own ICQ for X client. (the company was named mirabilis, no?) And also because Gerry's ICQ wasn't very stellar on Mac OS X? sniff
never tried fire... when i was looking around, fire was still in its early stages, and the known issues list was just too long for me to get involved with the app.
i hate msn because a.) it's microsoft and b.) man, for an instant messaging client, it really sucks a LOT of processing power. unfortunately, my last job recommended msn messenger for our workers, so many of my friends from there are on it often.
i really like ichat, except that hardly any of my friends have an aim account (or an ichat user name). so i can talk to all of one person when ichat is running. yippee.
PS, thaks for not making this another****inggoddmanboody poll! AI sighs in appreciation.
Originally posted by Placebo
I use plain ol' iChat.
PS, thaks for not making this another****inggoddmanboody poll! AI sighs in appreciation.
high five.
on topic.
I think I'll try Proteus.
I like fire.. but it just isn't working right..
anyone know of alternatives to these Two IM clients?
flick.
For me, Proteus was too cluttered and unintuitive. I liked the interface even less than MSN Messenger, and that's saying something! Fire just seems a lot simpler - everything is exactly where I'd expect it to be.
(Although I wish they'd make double clicking on an account the shortcut to connect, not edit it. And fix the file transfer bug. And allow multiple people in a conversation on MSN. Can any client do that?)
Amorya