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MSN Messenger Version 4.0

Skiniftz said:
Do YOU know anyone who has had it working for sure?
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Other than the plethora of people writing about it online?

edit - Oh, and me too. Just got it working between a PC and Mac here on the local subnet. I'll try connecting to the PC here from home, too - shouldn't be an issue.
 
Rower_CPU said:
Other than the plethora of people writing about it online?

edit - Oh, and me too. Just got it working between a PC and Mac here on the local subnet. I'll try connecting to the PC here from home, too - shouldn't be an issue.
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Well I hope you enjoy video conferencing across the local subnet. Now try a real world situation using NAT on at least one side of the link.
 
Skiniftz said:
Well I hope you enjoy video conferencing across the local subnet. Now try a real world situation using NAT on at least one side of the link.
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That's what the test from home will be.

In any case, it works in at least one situation that I've tested, and in typical situations according to folks online, so I think it's fair to say your original statement was an exaggeration.
 
Yes... I think so...

Chealion said:
So... Is it Carbon or Cocoa? A rewrite or fuglification?
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Looking at the .app package it does look like it's a Cocoa app. Can any fellow Mac developer tell us if a Carbon app is packaged in .app form, because I was trying to replace MSN 3.5 with 4.0 and ended up with two copies in Applications. Turns out that MSN 3.5 didnt have the .app extension but 4.0 did, that leads me to believe it is a fully Cocoa app.
 
Calebj14 said:
thanks that worked. i wonder y the msn site has not been updated yet. i knew M$ couldnt *fully* keep a deadline. Man, i hope longhorn never comes out. Long live the Mac, Linux, and UNIX! FYI, apple has realeased three (including tiger) oses since XP! am i right? this is just off the top of my head.
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I believe you are... ;)
 
AIM Mac to PC video

Rower_CPU said:
So a sample size of 2 gives you enough confidence to say it's "all lies" and "doesn't work"?
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It works. I did a video conference with a friend on a PC for over an hour. The video isn't as fast as mac to mac but it works just fine.
 
I'd really like to be able to have the avatars, but then again, the reconnect feature is handy on my ibook, like was mentioned earlier. I'm just glad that I finally figured out how to turn off those annoying ads on the bottom of it.
 
wookitus said:
It works. I did a video conference with a friend on a PC for over an hour. The video isn't as fast as mac to mac but it works just fine.
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did the pc have win xp or win 2000? i'm looking on the aim page and it says xp is required.
 
I must say, MSN Messenger 6 is probably the absolute best peice of messaging software for Windows (5 and earlier were crap). MSN Messenger 3.6 was the worst messaging software for Mac, and 4.0 fixed a couple minor annoyances (ugly smilies, only able to receive one file at a time) and nothing I really care about.

Come on Microsoft, you can do better...oh wait, you're Microsoft, almost forgot, you thrive on crappy software!
 
amsn

I downloaded amsn and its definitely worth the download. IMO its the best MSN client by far. I just wanted to know how do you use new skins, and how do you create new skins. I think i can make quite a good skin (brushed metal look) i just need to know some stuff. Thanks
milzay
 
Glad to see an effort

I'm happy to see someone has finally made an effort for us mac users to have the same advantages as pc users in using msn messenger... hopefully they'll someday soon take it up many more notches... but for the time being... i'm not dissatisfied with version 4.0 as it is... they've added the pager feature... and I *really* like the sounds of improved file transfer support... there's been countless times where my firewall has interferred... I've *just* downloaded this newer version... so I can't say just yet whether it is in fact improved... we'll see though... oh and hey... upon sign-in they now have the invisible mode as an option (which I love)... The improved pop-ups, now shown lower right hand of the screen as opposed to the upper right and how they fade out is quite funky... and though the additional emoticons aren't anything to get excited over... the option is now there... so I'm pretty pleased... there are a few other improvements... mainly customizing prefs and what not... all in all... not a bad improvement at all... now if *only* someone will add the webcam feature... to view others and also be seen... or even audio...then though it wouldn't be 'all that' which pc msn offers... at least it could be considered a close second...

Thanx for informing me about this new update!

-Melissa
 
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