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Who's going to use iChat?
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I'll be using it both for my network communication and for AIM. I really like how it'll tell me if people are online right from within mail.app.
cb911
macrumors 601
you mean we have to pay for iChat?! what a bummer!! damn!!! Apple must have knew that people wouldn't want to pay for .Mac, so then they must have decided to put heaps of cool stuff in with it so we couldn't refuse.
anyway, it looks like it worked on me. i'll at least be paying for the first year subscription...
anyway, it looks like it worked on me. i'll at least be paying for the first year subscription...
You don't have to pay to use iChat.
You do have to pay if you want to use a mac.com account with it, though.
You can use any AIM account (free) with it, but the mac.com thing just gets you a special AIM account. So, just get an AIM account and use iChat.
You do have to pay if you want to use a mac.com account with it, though.
You can use any AIM account (free) with it, but the mac.com thing just gets you a special AIM account. So, just get an AIM account and use iChat.
AmbitiousLemon
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i think there is some confusion here. what mmmdreg meant about ichat was that since we now have to pay to have a .mac email address and since ichat uses .mac email addresses in addition to aolim names ichat is only for paying .mac customers and people who are willing to type a screen name and password to create a aolim name.
im using ichat right now, and let me say it still sucks. i see only one worthwhile feature, the menubar app (which is separate from ichat). so the only good thing about it involves apple's proprietary menubar APIs. right now even aol's instant messenger is better than ichat. i certainly hope no one uses it. it is obtuse and difficult to use. if you ahve not guess, i am not at all pleased with it. but adium 2.0 should be coming our way soon so no worries.
im using ichat right now, and let me say it still sucks. i see only one worthwhile feature, the menubar app (which is separate from ichat). so the only good thing about it involves apple's proprietary menubar APIs. right now even aol's instant messenger is better than ichat. i certainly hope no one uses it. it is obtuse and difficult to use. if you ahve not guess, i am not at all pleased with it. but adium 2.0 should be coming our way soon so no worries.
SilvorX
macrumors 68000
Re: Who's going to use iChat?
i wont be suprised if some winbloze users are gonna skin aim to make it look like ichat (skin the buttons and im icons) since thats what they already done for msn (but made it look like the mac version....but bad quality)
never knew ppl still used icq 😉 lol
i wont be suprised if some winbloze users are gonna skin aim to make it look like ichat (skin the buttons and im icons) since thats what they already done for msn (but made it look like the mac version....but bad quality)
Mr. Anderson
Moderator emeritus
I'm not much of an IM person, I recently signed up for AIM when MacRumors was down a couple time over the past couple of weeks. I don't think I'll be using it when I get Jaguar.
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Adium is the Key!!
If there is EVER a 2.0 release for Adium I'll be all over it... 1.6 rocks either way. iChat, I'm sorry to say, pales in comparison. Slow, not-very-customizable, and it's features are not well implemented even in comparison to AOL's client.
iChat = Blegh!
Adium = WooHoo!
If there is EVER a 2.0 release for Adium I'll be all over it... 1.6 rocks either way. iChat, I'm sorry to say, pales in comparison. Slow, not-very-customizable, and it's features are not well implemented even in comparison to AOL's client.
iChat = Blegh!
Adium = WooHoo!
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
Right now, I use Fire to chat with... I like having AIM and Yahoo in one app... I know that Adium probably does the same thing, I just like the way Fire works. I also have ICQ, which I use to keep in touch with a friend from college. I would hope that Apple would update iChat for use with the other major chat engines (like Yahoo and m$n) either before it's released or soon after.
I might use iChat, but since I use more then just aim, it won't do me much good. That is unless/until Apple makes it work with more chats.
I might use iChat, but since I use more then just aim, it won't do me much good. That is unless/until Apple makes it work with more chats.
AmbitiousLemon
Moderator emeritus
Actually Adium is just AOLIM, so if you need yahoo and icq, then Fire or Proteus are your best bet.
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
Now that you mention it, I think I saw something about that when I was searching for a good chat organizer.
I downloaded proteus not long ago, when Fire was redoing some of it's code (due to AIM and then Yahoo changes) but found it a royal pain in the ass to try and configure. Fire is a snap to set up. I like things easy at home, since they can be a pain at work. See the thread that I started about just one part of that.
peterjhill
macrumors 65816
I am not big into IM. I use it to chat with a few people at work so I don't need to call them or go down to their office. We actually have a command line IM that has been around longer than even AIM called zephyr. That is the main IM client I use.
AlphaTech
macrumors 601
With Fire, you set up the account with the user name, password and if you want it to log in for you when you launch Fire. You can edit the accounts easily as well. Where things are a snap to find under Fire, I couldn't locate them under proteus.
Download the latest version of Fire (via versiontracker) and give it a twirl...
Heh, I 'll use it if it stops those bloody porn ad IM's that I get every other logon... Apart from blocking there wouldn't happen to be anyway to stop those would there?