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Messenger 5 for Mac

Howcome people still bother with that site? who IS his source? a teenager who sits infront of the computer all day saying that he's 1337 and has "lots of information about Messenger 5", I'll believe it when the supposed release date on the website is true, the "supposed" release date has changed so much from April to now June, how do we know if he even knows if he really DOES have any information about it?

I'll just keep my eye on the mactopia website, the forum, and macupdate/versiontracker
 
adium has bveen great for me.. icq is a far superior protocal than msn's, and msn doesn't even allow you to receive offline messages... wtf?

but how about adium picking up the msn protocal and adding it to their app, that would solve this whole problem, innit. :)
 
grafenberg said:
adium has bveen great for me.. icq is a far superior protocal than msn's, and msn doesn't even allow you to receive offline messages... wtf?

but how about adium picking up the msn protocal and adding it to their app, that would solve this whole problem, innit. :)
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Adium already supports chatting via MSN. What exactly do you mean by "picking up the msn protocol"?
 
mad jew said:
Thanks for that, an interesting link. It's a shame Microsoft has no idea how to make an app pretty using brushed metal. That drawer is hideous. :(
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It looks like one window behind another :rolleyes: .

I don't understand why Microsoft can't make the mac version even close to par with the pc version. I mean, once their doing it they might as well do it right.
 
Mercury is cool but the splash screen loading is horrible. and for some reason i couldnt actually click a name to send a message. double clicking, menu>send message... etc. i was relying on other people messaging me!

Adium. nah.

ICQ? Mac? urgh. i was looking on thier website a few days ago and the newest version was made in 2002/3 (i forget exactly). but it was old compared to the Windows version. and if i know ICQ correctly; old versions are ugly and work bad.

im making do with Messenger 4 on mac for now. i just boot up my PC and remind myself of Messenger 7 to think how lucky i am for Mac Messenger 4. :)
 
mercury is quite nice, I use it allready for a long while now...

the link does work, just be patient, it's not on a very fast server so it seems...

next mercury version WILL have webcam sending for Mac... so not only receiving, allso sending... nice one...
 
grafenberg said:
adium has bveen great for me.. icq is a far superior protocal than msn's, and msn doesn't even allow you to receive offline messages... wtf?

but how about adium picking up the msn protocal and adding it to their app, that would solve this whole problem, innit. :)
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i agree adium is a great app, but as i've posted many a time, i get HUGE UNACCEPTABLE probblems with it, it cant do the things it was made to do, i have a very hard time recieving messages, and i think the person just doewn't want to talk to me then like 5 mins later i get "helooooooooooooooo are you there" then i have to ask them to retype everything they just did. if they would fix this problem once and for all, that would be great, i still have the little red duckie (changed the colour) in my dock, rigtht beside MSN, but i'm too afraid to use it. maybe when its out of beta. and it would be so cool if adium or some other program made it possible to voice and webcam as well as chat with other msn users on the pc and mac. i tried skype but i felt it was way too unsafe, anyone can call you from anywhere at anytime. my friend had someone add her to her msn and he keeps harassing her, making new emails as she blocks the others...not to discourage people from ussing skype, i thought it was great until the safety risk became a factor....

anyways, are there any suggestions on a webcam msn client for mac? i know of mercury messenger and i think its supposed to be able to do webcam, but it doesn't work.
 
biohazard_6969 said:
i agree adium is a great app, but as i've posted many a time, i get HUGE UNACCEPTABLE probblems with it, it cant do the things it was made to do, i have a very hard time recieving messages, and i think the person just doewn't want to talk to me then like 5 mins later i get "helooooooooooooooo are you there" then i have to ask them to retype everything they just did. if they would fix this problem once and for all, that would be great, i still have the little red duckie (changed the colour) in my dock, rigtht beside MSN, but i'm too afraid to use it. maybe when its out of beta.
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i dunno man, i'm constantly using adium and i've never had that problem. maybe you should reinstall it or something along those lines.
 
SilvorX said:
Howcome people still bother with that site? who IS his source? a teenager who sits infront of the computer all day saying that he's 1337 and has "lots of information about Messenger 5", I'll believe it when the supposed release date on the website is true, the "supposed" release date has changed so much from April to now June, how do we know if he even knows if he really DOES have any information about it?

I'll just keep my eye on the mactopia website, the forum, and macupdate/versiontracker
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Calm now.....relax......think about your heart......Zennnnnnn
 
Hey, at least Mercury Messenger is getting a lot further than MSN when it comes to video conferencing. How embarassing.
 
Nermal said:
Today at WWDC, Roz said that the next version of MSN is still a few months away :(
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Yeah I was overjoyed when I heard that :rolleyes: and I guess you could hear that the crowd was as well, especially when the guys from Mathematica had just shown the Intel version that took 2 hours to move over
 
j_maddison said:
RIP Adium
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Not so fast - Mercury's user interface is a complete abomination and, as far as I'm concerned, until the app starts using a more Mac OS X-y feel the program will never be able to take on the design marvel of Adium. If the webcam stuff gets good, then I'll probably end up sticking with Adium for chatting, and using Mercury for webcam. I'll stay that way until Mercury gets its makeover.
Still, I definitely appreciate all the hard work they've put into the webcam aspect! I just hope think it's an Adium replacement by any means.
 
I just want a version of Messenger that doesn't periodically say stuff like "Ben just sent you a wink. Please upgrade to the latest version by going to http://www.this.link.doesnt.even.work.com."
 
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