Sweet new instant messenger.....

[TC2]

Check out this one out http://www.skype.com/

It's text and voice, no file sharing though so far.

It actually works really well and through firewalls too.

It's from the same people who created Kazaa so it's P2P.

 

[Heahy Minister]

There are already enough chat programs out there. What makes this one any special?

 

[Code]

Cool, thanks for the heads up T3C!!

 

[ohashi]

I'm already forced to use AIM, MSN, and Yahoo messangers because goddamn people cannot agree on a single one to use. No way in hell I'm installing another one.

 

[Code]

I'm already forced to use AIM, MSN, and Yahoo messangers because goddamn people cannot agree on a single one to use. No way in hell I'm installing another one.

GAIM uses all of them, very nice.

 

[ohashi]

GAIM? Does it have auto-log abilities, like DeadAIM?

 

[TC2]

Cool, thanks for the heads up T3C!!

No problem chode.

 

[Code]

It has the option of logging.

GAIM? Does it have auto-log abilities, like DeadAIM?

 

[TC2]

There are already enough chat programs out there. What makes this one any special?

I really like the voice feature, much better quality than the others.


I think it has a lot of potential.

 

[DeepZenPill]

GAIM uses all of them, very nice.

Gaim is a piece of shit unfortunately. It has a lot of potential, but it has a plain ugly interface and randomly gets signed off. I'm forced to use it on my linux box and I stay up to date, it's just full of problems IMO.

 

[Code]

The GAIM suite needs to learn two words: Code Freeze.

They keep adding shit, but ignoring pretty irritable bugs.

But it does use ALL the big name IM's, and it's linux. Which is why I use it.

Gaim is a piece of shit unfortunately. It has a lot of potential, but it has a plain ugly interface and randomly gets signed off. I'm forced to use it on my linux box and I stay up to date, it's just full of problems IMO.

 

[NoDaddyNo]

Trillian lets you use Yahoo, AIM, MSN, IRC, and ICQ.
And its free.
They have a version that you can pay for that has more options, but I have yet to have a reason to use it.

If you and someone else are using the AIM part of it, but are both using Trillian, then you can setup an encrypted connection so that you are harder to monitor at work by sniffing the line.

HushMail also has an encrypted chat client, but I haven't used it.

I haven't looked at skype yet to see if it is any good - but just b/c it claims to be P2P really means nothing.

And nearly all of them that I know allow you to log the shit - it is pulling in a datafeed that is text and it dumps out to your screen - so it has the history in a temp file and memory as well - so it is no big deal for them to log it.

 

[Code]

Trillian lets you use Yahoo, AIM, MSN, IRC, and ICQ.
And its free.

Even now that Yahoo is blocking 3rd party software?

 

[NoDaddyNo]

Just checked it out - it looks to focus on the voice side. AIM also has voice and I haven't looked at Yahoo to see if it has it.

Pretty much any of the protocols that connect the users directly to each other are able to use the VoIP stuff - MS Netmeeting, which comes free in Windows has been able to do this since 1996 in terms of clients to clients talking, and then the true VoIP where you can call actual phone numbers is more of a recent thing - not sure if that is what it is actually doing - I would guess not since that has to actually interface into the telecom circuits, which you can't do without going through the proper channels, which means paying.

That said - VoIP is way way way cheaper and makes use of the massively overbuilt phone system in the States, so you can save a lot of money at the expense of the phone companies competing for customers to be a loss leader.

 

[Heahy Minister]

Off topic q here but I am trying to see if someone is online and they are using AIM. They have disabled it so that only those in their buddy list can see if they are online. I am not on their buddy list. How would I be able to see if they are online??? Any way around this??

 

[NoDaddyNo]

Even now that Yahoo is blocking 3rd party software?

Within a week after that they released a patch around that.

AOL was blocking it for a bit, but then they seem to have stopped for the past year or so.

Trillian is good about getting a patch out quickly to work around it.

Supposedly MSN is going to block third party clients as well - but I never use that anymore and disabled my connection with that - so I don't know how they are with that.

 

[Code]

When I used trillian, about 8 months ago.
The interface was confusing, was never sure if I was logging into my yahoo account, or my msn account or both.

Within a week after that they released a patch around that.

AOL was blocking it for a bit, but then they seem to have stopped for the past year or so.

Trillian is good about getting a patch out quickly to work around it.

Supposedly MSN is going to block third party clients as well - but I never use that anymore and disabled my connection with that - so I don't know how they are with that.

 

[ZKaudio]

i've used trillian for the last 2 years, just get a full version (pro version) off kazaa.