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what's your favourite chat account?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:27 am
by kayleneaussie
msn for me and sometimes yahoo
what's your favourite chat account?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:29 am
by spot
There are quite a few that bring all of the chat suppliers into a single package and give them all the same feel and look. I use one of those - Pidgin. The best known for use with Microsoft Windows operating systems is Trillian, I've used that and got on well with it. I'd not like to use AOL Messenger and Yahoo Messenger and MSN and ICQ and all the other programs side by side, I'd much rather have one program with all my accounts inside it.
what's your favourite chat account?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:46 am
by spot
Neither Pidgin nor Trillian have any advertising aspects at all. I suspect the Google chat does.
The thing is that different friends have different chat suppliers and if you want to talk to all of them you need a general purpose chat engine. I've never quite seen why that's not a conclusive argument.
what's your favourite chat account?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:52 am
by spot
fuzzy butt;1053771 wrote: How would one go about doing that?
A quick look at Trillian (software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)) shows the sort of options available.
what's your favourite chat account?
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:57 am
by spot
The full table of multi-protocol clients is heavy-duty reading but it's at Comparison of instant messaging clients - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia