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    Other choices besides adium?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Dana, Jan 9, 2008.

  1. Dana

    Dana Notebook Consultant

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    Anything else besides adium? and iChat obviously?
     
    Dana, Jan 9, 2008
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    What messenger do you want to use? aMSN is pretty good for MSN messenger network. It is the only working webcam support I have found for mac.
     
    wave, Jan 9, 2008
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    Do you know if aMSN can recieve offline messages? cause the msn messenger doesnt and thats really silly.
     
    sulkorp, Jan 9, 2008
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  4. Sam

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    You can try Mercury Messenger, I know some people that use it, although I don't personally.

    http://www.mercury.im/
     
    Sam, Jan 9, 2008
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    I'm curious, why don't you like adium?

    What would you add/change about it?
     
    hollownail, Jan 9, 2008
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  6. trueintentions

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    Yes, it can.

    However, just as a personal thing, I find aMSN's interface is really ugly. :p
     
    trueintentions, Jan 9, 2008
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    did you ever get iChat working correctly?
     
    circa86, Jan 10, 2008
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  8. kgeier82

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    i cant remember what it was called, but its dock icon was a penguin.

    there was another that started with M, all were very good.

    none as good as adium.
     
    kgeier82, Jan 10, 2008
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    Adium is far and away the most incredible IM i've used on any OS.

    I can't say enough good things about it. Video chat would be nice, but it's no biggie for me.
     
    Eallan, Jan 11, 2008
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    Is Adium available for Windows? If not, is there an IM app that comes close to what Adium does?
     
    dbam987, Jan 11, 2008
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    closest i have found is trillian. but its not the same.
     
    kgeier82, Jan 11, 2008
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    wave, Jan 11, 2008
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    i knew it was another bird :)
     
    kgeier82, Jan 11, 2008
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    Geek94, Jan 12, 2008
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  15. Sam

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    Microsoft Messenger for Mac is okay, but not my preferred one. I find it crashes on me often, sometimes when I just close an IM window. I just stick to Adium, personally.
     
    Sam, Jan 12, 2008
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