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But, but, even when I had AIM, which I think I even might still have somewhere on this confusing, non-Macintosh computer, I could not figure out the AIM chat business, or when people were chatting.
A conspiracy, obviously. Thank you, Ralphster. Now I know for sure!
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(You add your own name as a contact on your buddy list, you right click on your name, you choose "send chat invitation" [or something] and when it asks you to choose the name of the chatroom, you type in "Hatrack Chat".)
(That will be five dollars, please. Cash only.)
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What if your husband secretly deletes the program??!!?? Why, I oughtta...
Actually, I am trying to cut down ToC(Time on Computer). If I get into Chat, I am done for. I think my husband knows this. Ha ha.
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OK, I am going to try to get it again today, and if it disappears, I will put it back again. My husband does not like AIM because he says it is Spyware. Is this true?
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Your husband is basically right. The later versions of Aim (and possibly AOL itself) contain Spyware. The bit of spyware is called WildTangent. You also have the privilage of being served ads constantly.
Personally, I use Trillian and Gaim to chat online. The added bonus of both is that you can use them to chat on different mediums (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, IRC) without having to run different programs.
Gaim is free, while Trillian has both a free and paid for version. Gaim & Trillian Pro don't have ads, while I can't remember if the free version of Trillian does or not.
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My experience: Trillian bugged the heck out of me; I love Gaim. So I suggest trying Gaim first. Posts: 32919 | Registered: Mar 2003
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My experience: Gaim is (generally) more stable for me, but it has several major flaws (to me) that drive me nuts:
- Can't change incoming text to make it more readable (this means you and your 50 million fonts Myr!) - When resizing windows, buttons will either overlap or will just disappear (resizing fixes this). - Unable to dock windows - No range of themes (at least without reinstalling)
I wish they'd add some features to take care of this, but until then, I've got my Trillian. Posts: 851 | Registered: Oct 2001
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If you're using Windows, you click the file gaim-0.77.exe and then whichever city is closest to you.
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quote: Gaim is (generally) more stable for me, but it has several major flaws (to me) that drive me nuts:
- Can't change incoming text to make it more readable (this means you and your 50 million fonts Myr!)
Huh? I have fonts and colors turned off. Very restful.
The button thing IS occasionally annoying. I don't like docking and I'm quite happy with a single choice of theme.
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I tried to turn them off too, but ran into the problem of the dinky text (which was really hard to read in chat). Maybe I'll try to reinstall it and see if that makes a difference.
Mainly I like the ability to dock when I'm on my laptop, as the desktop space on it comes at a premium. On my desktop, I could really care less (21" screen @ 1600x1200 res.)
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