Trillian is definitely the way to go. It's got the most functionality and the most user-friendly interface short of AOL Instant Messenger (which it emulates). It offers a cozy middle ground between the bare-bones AIM and the nightmarishly difficult to use ICQ.
I kind of agree, but my only beef is that it seems to take Cer. Studios so long to get updates out the door. I used to use Miranda because I liked the flexibility it brought to a multi-client app, but it died and has since been revived and is going gangbusters with new releases. I don't want to go back down that road just yet though.
As far as IM as a whole is concerned, I am pretty disinterested in most of the new developments. I want my IM client to support multi-protocol and file transfer and I want it to be rock solid and light on resources. While some clients out there almost get to that point, I don't feel like they are making those 2 concepts the cornerstone of their software. That's just me though...
Adium for me. I'm on a mac. It's got a duck on it. And he flaps his wings as I get new messages = WIN
One of the things I like about iChat is that it has an icon in the upper right hand corner, near the clock, that allows me access to my buddy list and things. Does Adium, or any other client, do the same?
It's funny seeing all these posts about MSN exclusivity. For a while there, I honestly thought that AIM was the only widely used client. I only knew of wide spread use of MSN in the development community.
I've noticed two trends concerning what people use. First, and primary, is when you started using the Internet. Many people never left IRC, and almost everyone who was online prior to AIM coming out had an ICQ UIN. When AIM came out, very person with AOL automatically had a name, which suddenly gave it prevelence, and more to the point, people who weren't interesting in finding out in new tech things suddenly had this "great thing" which caused them to tell their friends, and people grabbed AIM sns to be able to talk to them. Yahoo had a small spurt when it was the only one with video chat where a number of people migrated to it, and then MSN, largely due to their including Windows messenger with Windows, grew their marketshare in the later times when people who just got the Internet already had it.
Geographically, AIM has a much smaller footprint due to AOL not being a global ISP - that build in marketbase never existed.
I'm curious.. most IMs have ways to send messages to cell phones, but interacting with IM clients from a cell phone has always been cumbersome and annoying to me. I think the future is the integration of IMs with cell phones. Does anyone do this now, and if so, how is the experience?
I do not know the details in terms of the cell phone end, but I do know that I regularly send a friend of mine IMs that are sent as text messages to her cell phone, and she responds to me via text message, straight to my IM window. I'll speak to her to find out if it's a service from her provider, a separate program, or built into AIM.
I'm curious.. most IMs have ways to send messages to cell phones, but interacting with IM clients from a cell phone has always been cumbersome and annoying to me. I think the future is the integration of IMs with cell phones. Does anyone do this now, and if so, how is the experience?
I do not know the details in terms of the cell phone end, but I do know that I regularly send a friend of mine IMs that are sent as text messages to her cell phone, and she responds to me via text message, straight to my IM window. I'll speak to her to find out if it's a service from her provider, a separate program, or built into AIM.
The way you describe it, sounds like the IM client converts the IM into a text msg that the phone receives in kind. I like this, and use it occasionally.
What I'd like some more info about is using an IM client from your phone (actually running aim on a phone for instance). These have always been horrible for me.
It's funny seeing all these posts about MSN exclusivity. For a while there, I honestly thought that AIM was the only widely used client. I only knew of wide spread use of MSN in the development community.
I've noticed two trends concerning what people use. First, and primary, is when you started using the Internet. Many people never left IRC, and almost everyone who was online prior to AIM coming out had an ICQ UIN. When AIM came out, very person with AOL automatically had a name, which suddenly gave it prevelence, and more to the point, people who weren't interesting in finding out in new tech things suddenly had this "great thing" which caused them to tell their friends, and people grabbed AIM sns to be able to talk to them. Yahoo had a small spurt when it was the only one with video chat where a number of people migrated to it, and then MSN, largely due to their including Windows messenger with Windows, grew their marketshare in the later times when people who just got the Internet already had it.
Geographically, AIM has a much smaller footprint due to AOL not being a global ISP - that build in marketbase never existed.
I believe my ICQ UIN was 67600646. Any way to look it up if it's still active?
I just wanted to say that I very much prefer ICQ's old number system and the email usernames of gtalk to the usernames of aim. if i talk to one more person with 15 x's in their name...
I'm curious.. most IMs have ways to send messages to cell phones, but interacting with IM clients from a cell phone has always been cumbersome and annoying to me. I think the future is the integration of IMs with cell phones. Does anyone do this now, and if so, how is the experience?
There's a phone company here i Denmark specialising in what they call 3rd gen phones, (the company is called 3) that advertises that they provide MSN Messenger for phones. I do however not know excatly how it works. (I also would be unable to use an IM on a phone. I just hate typing on phones.)
I previously said that I have Live Messenger, but I also have Xfire, but rarely use it, because I only know two people who has it.
I'm curious.. most IMs have ways to send messages to cell phones, but interacting with IM clients from a cell phone has always been cumbersome and annoying to me. I think the future is the integration of IMs with cell phones. Does anyone do this now, and if so, how is the experience?
There's a phone company here i Denmark specialising in what they call 3rd gen phones, (the company is called 3) that advertises that they provide MSN Messenger for phones. I do however not know excatly how it works. (I also would be unable to use an IM on a phone. I just hate typing on phones.)
I previously said that I have Live Messenger, but I also have Xfire, but rarely use it, because I only know two people who has it.
I think my actual problem with these services is that they try to emulate an instant messenger client instead of just letting you sends text messages to people on a computer. It feels over complicated right now.
I just wanted to say that I very much prefer ICQ's old number system and the email usernames of gtalk to the usernames of aim. if i talk to one more person with 15 x's in their name...
This is something else I really like about GTalk. Your displayed name in GTalk is the same as the one that is sent with your emails in GMail. I really like it since everyone on my list just has their first and last name, nobody's changed their name to "Sheogorath's Lover" one week and "Dark Smoke Puncher" the next. I always know who's messaging me right away.
There's a phone company here i Denmark specialising in what they call 3rd gen phones, (the company is called 3) that advertises that they provide MSN Messenger for phones. I do however not know excatly how it works. (I also would be unable to use an IM on a phone. I just hate typing on phones.)
I previously said that I have Live Messenger, but I also have Xfire, but rarely use it, because I only know two people who has it.
I used to have a IM client installed on my Symbian OS phone and while it did work just fine (it supported all the major IM systems), it was a real pain to actually keep a conversation going due to the lack of a proper keyboard. Really easy to use besides that though.
Bit of a side note: I'm a business reporter and I wrote a story once about a small tech company that was implementing an instant messaging service into their product.
A month or so after the story ran, I got a letter from AOL's lawyers, claiming they trademarked the term "instant messenger" and that in the future, I should use a more generic term as mentioning it outside of an AIM context dilutes their brand.
Naturally, we all got a good laugh out of it.
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I kind of agree, but my only beef is that it seems to take Cer. Studios so long to get updates out the door. I used to use Miranda because I liked the flexibility it brought to a multi-client app, but it died and has since been revived and is going gangbusters with new releases. I don't want to go back down that road just yet though.
As far as IM as a whole is concerned, I am pretty disinterested in most of the new developments. I want my IM client to support multi-protocol and file transfer and I want it to be rock solid and light on resources. While some clients out there almost get to that point, I don't feel like they are making those 2 concepts the cornerstone of their software. That's just me though...
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One of the things I like about iChat is that it has an icon in the upper right hand corner, near the clock, that allows me access to my buddy list and things. Does Adium, or any other client, do the same?
I've noticed two trends concerning what people use. First, and primary, is when you started using the Internet. Many people never left IRC, and almost everyone who was online prior to AIM coming out had an ICQ UIN. When AIM came out, very person with AOL automatically had a name, which suddenly gave it prevelence, and more to the point, people who weren't interesting in finding out in new tech things suddenly had this "great thing" which caused them to tell their friends, and people grabbed AIM sns to be able to talk to them. Yahoo had a small spurt when it was the only one with video chat where a number of people migrated to it, and then MSN, largely due to their including Windows messenger with Windows, grew their marketshare in the later times when people who just got the Internet already had it.
Geographically, AIM has a much smaller footprint due to AOL not being a global ISP - that build in marketbase never existed.
I do not know the details in terms of the cell phone end, but I do know that I regularly send a friend of mine IMs that are sent as text messages to her cell phone, and she responds to me via text message, straight to my IM window. I'll speak to her to find out if it's a service from her provider, a separate program, or built into AIM.
The way you describe it, sounds like the IM client converts the IM into a text msg that the phone receives in kind. I like this, and use it occasionally.
What I'd like some more info about is using an IM client from your phone (actually running aim on a phone for instance). These have always been horrible for me.
I believe my ICQ UIN was 67600646. Any way to look it up if it's still active?
muh.
There's a phone company here i Denmark specialising in what they call 3rd gen phones, (the company is called 3) that advertises that they provide MSN Messenger for phones. I do however not know excatly how it works. (I also would be unable to use an IM on a phone. I just hate typing on phones.)
I previously said that I have Live Messenger, but I also have Xfire, but rarely use it, because I only know two people who has it.
I think my actual problem with these services is that they try to emulate an instant messenger client instead of just letting you sends text messages to people on a computer. It feels over complicated right now.
Tabbed IMing, no ads, auto message logging, file transfer works fine.
All I want, really.
A month or so after the story ran, I got a letter from AOL's lawyers, claiming they trademarked the term "instant messenger" and that in the future, I should use a more generic term as mentioning it outside of an AIM context dilutes their brand.
Naturally, we all got a good laugh out of it.
I owned a Mac for a brief period of time, and I really, really miss Adium.