Instant Messenger Clients
 

Here are some very nice instant messenger clients for mac. Especially if you have different IM providers:

Fire
Proteus

I'm currently using proteus :)

Post your favourite IM client for PC or otherwise :tu:

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MSN Messenger with msgplus (hack)
AOL Instant Messenger

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Just got round to tying out iChat the other day (AIM client built into Mac OSX). Vrey pleased with it, nice and simple. I'd love to have a go at the one in OSX 10.3, as it can do video (not that I've got anyone to do video messaging with :( )

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MSN Messenger with msgplus2

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Does anyone on this forum use a webcam with their IM client?

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I do with MSN.

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I use :-

Msn Messegner
Yahoo Messenger
AMSN
DMSN
Trillian

Although not all at the same time :)

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Ive heard of most of them but whats AMSN and DMSN?

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I thought that was the whole idea of Trillian though ;)

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Well, I'd love to do a video chat with you. Just a couple of problems:

1. MSN for Mac doesn't support audio/video.
2. Very few IM clients for Mac actually do, it appears.
3. The latest version of iChat (AIM for Mac OSX) does do audio/video, but you need OSX version 10.3 and I don't have £80/90 to spend on upgrading my OS at the mo'.
4. I don't have a webcam :(

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http://www.miranda-im.org .. easily the best I've used
(I bought trillian at one point, but gave the licence away when i found miranda)

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Im guessing you only have a Mac then?

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Dont know about DMSN but AMSN is a client to connect to the MSN messanger network. I Think it was originally intened for Linux users, though there are windows versions now.
There are some enhanced features over standard MSN such as...
Block detection (See when somebody has blocked you)
Emoticons show in Nicklist (for some reason microsoft have yet to add this to MSN)
There are also different forms of away (No activity wich is good, this lets you know if somebody has left thier computer but hasnt switched it to away, it is also handy if somebody has set thier MSN to away but is still using thier computer)
Custom away Response (Automatically replies to any PM sent to you with your chosen away message.)

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Yeah - but not being very populor on yahoo (I only have a couple of people on there) I usually just stick with msn or dmsn. :)

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:Yikes: ONLY??!!!??!! Why you cheeky little ....... ;)

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I'm sure it has been posted before but Messenger Plus 2 adds a lot of nice little features to MSN Messenger.

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Yep i have just auto updated. Thanks Pem.

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Ah, Messenger Plus. Excellent add-on. Customise people's display names, auto-reply messages, custom away statuses, better logging.... :)



I keep meaning to get some kind of MSN Messenger client for my phone too.

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Personally I would like a feature that automatically deletes expired MSN accounts from your contact list.

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Microsoft have now released a beta version of msn messenger 6.2 available here

Changes:
Launch Site renamed "Fun & Games"
Fun & Games adds: Music Exchange
Shared Browsing Enabled for MSN Subscribers
MSN Messenger "Connection Troubleshooter"
'Real time' emoticon displaying when typing messages
Ability to hide the standard buttons at the top of the messenger window

not that exciting but i thought some people might like the link :shrug:

EDIT: link corrected

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err sorry to sound stupid but the link isn't to Microsofts website. Its to Yahoo.

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oops! sorry not you being stupid... was me... corrected now. thanks WNA

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Although its the right link it says the following

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dammit! not my day is it!! :rolleyes:

I downloaded from that yesterday, but when looking on the forum i got it from today, aparently 6.2 is now available from

http://messenger.msn-int.com/

can't try the download myself cos i am at work, but people there are saying that it works!

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Well I know nothing about Mac's but if you can get Trillian Pro working on there somehow I'd go with that. Its got everything you need. I have Yahoo.msn,aim,irc & IRC running on there and they work a treat :)

PS the choice in skins is great. Some of the best GFX guys dable with this ;)

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When i double clicked on the installer it said 6.1 . This is getting annoying.

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Just checked out Trillian's homepage only to find:

System Requirements
Minimum system requirements for installing and running Trillian Pro and Trillian Basic is Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP. There is currently not a Macintosh version available.

:(

In the longer term, I remain hopeful that Mac OSX's Unix soul will make ports of useful apps like this more likely. In the meantime, anyone know which multi-network IM clients do work on Mac?

web based MSN messenger
 

Someone showed me this webbased MSN client:
http://start.e-messenger.net/

I wonder if it is trustworthy :confused: