Thursday, July 07, 2005 :::

he wasn't always evil
 

ok so like... my macworld got here today... and I was all reading the feedback stuff that they've got... and some people are really adamant about their im clients.
my personal favorite, adium, didn't get too swell of a review...
and here's what this one adium fan said:

"I've used all the IM clients you reviewed (except for Defaultware's Proteus) and think that Adam Iser's AdiumX deserves more credit than you gave it. No, you can't have AV chats with it, but there isn't much else it can't do. I'd rather use a program with everything a Mac user could want than one with extra bells and whistles."

adiums's a free prog, and always in development... think with this latest release we're ~finally~ able to block people now, w/out having to switch to the native app... it can't do a/v, but I'm not much for either unless it's rob... it wigs out with file transfers from yahoo, but it handle's msn transfers well enough... overall I like it.
I've used aim, ichat, msn, yahoo, fire, adium, and proteus before. I think the aim for macs is crap; disgusting to look at. ichat is beautiful to look at, but wigs out if you send too many messages too quickly. msn is ok... I'm not particularly fond of it, though. yahoo for mac is officially 10 thousand years old and has not been updated since then, I swear. I use it to cam w/ rob, but that's about it. back when I used fire it wasn't being supported by it's developers, but it looks like that's changed, so I'll hafta check it out again. proteus is the multiprotocol mssngr david chose... it seemed nice enough... I had the trial version but when it expired I didn't purchase it.
thing is, they didn't even review skype or gizmo. I've used skype before, and it handles audio and cross platform transfers awesomely, supposedly with plugins for video... I've never used gizmo, but I hear it's worth dloading - with free voicemail (you hafta pay for vm on skype). I just really feel like skype and gizmo are heading in the right direction... and that's what these others ought to be aiming for.
so that's my spiel on im clients for macs.

per milky dud:
Work it out on tha floor, work it out on tha floor!
Who's laughin' now, beeeotch, huh, huh?
"And in other news, Voltron got totally served!"
Daaaaaaamn!
::: posted by tinafish at 5:52 PM :::