I'm a Mac newbie, and love it. I just saw the thread and saw the lack of iChat usage (but that's only for those who actually posted) I was wondering if macrumors members would entertain the idea of publishing their IM names, with a brief description of themselves/location/industry? I'll go ahead with mine.. Hopefully they'll be other! AIM: ShakeYaDonky, Boston, MBA student.
AIM: -----, Providence, Student I'm a fairly boring person that likes macs and trains. edit: AIM name deleted
About2SwitchOvr, you and anybody else interested in chatting can edit your MacRumors profile to include your ICQ number, AIM screen name, MSN messenger handle, and/or Yahoo messenger handle. Then people can contact you by clicking an icon under your name next to any of your posts. And you can put info about your interests in your profile and in a (short) signature that will appear under each post. To edit your profile, you can click "User CP" at the top of this page and then click "Edit Profile". You'll see the place to fill in your contct info. As a sample of the icons people will see, look at this post by applemacdude. Hover over the icons to see what each one is for. And no, I wasn't recommending that you acutally chat applemacdude; he's just somebody with all four of them set so I picked his post to show you the icons!
i have all four, no? Anyway, i noticed the lack of places to enter your Jabber/Trepia stuff...bah... anyway, if you're too lazy to click, my sn is aaplgoddess (AIM) and you can find more about me @ this place
You can add me --> khalidhanif@mac[n0spam].com Take out the nospam About me - i'm male, 20 and live in London and go to university at KCL Jee
...until you realize its not going to work because they make you pay for the elite crud ($10?! maybe if it was ad free it would be nice, but ONLY FOR SOME CRUMMY OPTIONS that a lot of other websites offer for free...) and only want 18+ year olds. Leaves out a whole bunch of totally awesome people. So its not really global. Just my rant, I signed up for only one and I keep getting bombarded with IMs from all sorts of people from pervs to really nice people to old classmates. Some of them are just awful though, its like they dont know what an autoreply is or they're perverted, asking some explicit questions, et cetera.
the basic profile there is free. i dont care for the paid one - i am not looking for love in there. well the 18 y limit is a bit stupid, of course you could always lie that you are 18 ..
Ahoy Uber I saw that you have all 4 services... What program do you use to mesh all of them together? I used to use Trillian with my PC.. but since I got the mac... I try not to install PC based progs in it (want my mac to keep it's pure aura). Any input would be greatly appreciated!
nobody i know uses ICQ, so nothing for that but for jabber/trepia/aim/msn/yahoo i use adium I really like tabbed chatting and the unbelievable customizability
Mine is Resurgerro. It used to be Resurgo until some mix up with AOL deleting it when I cancelled my service even though I had the screen name registered with AIM before. I also have Resurgo@mac.com but don't use that one as much since not many have it. As far as about myself, I am 21 and live in Saint Augustine, Florida where I am studying philosophy, religion, and pre-law and work part/full time at the Saint Augustine Art Glass Gallery on historic Saint George street.
I don't use iChat because all my real-life friends use MSN. So, without further ado, my MSN address is chris@nzweb-nospam.net. Make sure you remove the -nospam I've got an always-on connection, so if you message me and I don't reply, it's probably because I'm asleep or something I'm usually awake between 9pm and 11am GMT. Speaking of which, I should probably get some sleep because it's 11:30 and I'm tired
Downloaded Adium.. THANKS for the info I just hopped on their website.. and saw the interface.. wow.. very slick.. I'm at work now, so I gotta try this puppy out at home. Thanks again for the delightful hints!
I tried Adium maybe 4 months ago and it always crashed on me so I trashed it and I've been using iChat exclusively. It would crash every time I tried to open its preferences so I am not sure if it was just a particular bug in that one build I downloaded or what, but it was a bit annoying to have to deal with.
maybe you got one of the buggy alphas. Adium right now is pretty stable and very nice...give it one more try Adium v0.52 is like...ambrosia...I've been hoping that Trillian might be ported to Mac OS X but Adium is so much more nicer ..... I think they might have done something to the max number of buddies. Usually at around 150 i'd get error messages, but not anymore (It's at around 170 for aaplgoddess). And my buddy list has grown thanks to the Orphans group thing (in adium)... Then again, i use two AIM screennames at the same time, so i dunno.