I'm having problems. You see, everyone seems to use MSN for some reason, and no-one seems to want to make the switch.
So I'm doing it.
Anyone who wants to contact me from now on must refrain from using MSN. Go download GAIM. After installation, set it up with Google Talk.
You will then be able to use the services of Google Talk. This only works if you have a Gmail account, but anyone should have one by now.
Alternatively, you may use AIM, if you don't have a Gmail account.
I hope my recommendations will make people leave MSN and goto one of the better services. MSN goes down every five seconds, while AIM and Google Talk remain up and running. And MSN is ran by Microsoft; the richest company on the entire planet. Unbelievable.
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 May 22 2006, 5:40 am
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I use MSN and it barely goes down at all, the main problem people have is that they have to have two clients running if they attempt to switch as some people dont want to switch and the only way to contact them is via MSN so unless everyone is forced to change its sort of hard to do. Anyway cant you connect to MSN through GAIM anyway?
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Critical wrote:
I use MSN and it barely goes down at all, the main problem people have is that they have to have two clients running if they attempt to switch as some people dont want to switch and the only way to contact them is via MSN so unless everyone is forced to change its sort of hard to do. Anyway cant you connect to MSN through GAIM anyway?I tried to -- appearantly the servers are down again. | |
I prefer MSN Messenger to all of them (I like to keep up-to-date, even with the betas, like Windows Live Messenger) and it by far seems the most professional. It never goes down on me, and I keep it online all the time.
AIM is just.. don't like it much. It's service is probably the most reliable, at least in opinion, but it just doesn't suit me. I like the AIM Triton somewhat because of the interface, but after thatm it's as far as I really go. GTalk is cool too, but I never find a use for it. No one I talk to has it, or at least use it if so. | |
CaptFalcon33035 wrote:
I prefer MSN Messenger to all of them (I like to keep up-to-date, even with the betas, like Windows Live Messenger) and it by far seems the most professional. It never goes down on me, and I keep it online all the time.MSN Messenger has the most features and security, but it goes down a lot. (MSN Messenger is designed to fool you into appearing online until you actually use it!) AIM is just.. don't like it much. It's service is probably the most reliable, at least in opinion, but it just doesn't suit me. I like the AIM Triton somewhat because of the interface, but after thatm it's as far as I really go.AIM lacks in security what it has in features and availability; it's online 90% of the time. GTalk is cool too, but I never find a use for it. No one I talk to has it, or at least use it if so.Google Talk seems to be online 99,9% of the time, but lacks in features and possible buddies. In order to "keep down on spam", you have to send an SMS to them to get approved. | |
Android Data wrote:
Google Talk seems to be online 99,9% of the time, but lacks in features and possible buddies. In order to "keep down on spam", you have to send an SMS to them to get approved. SMS to get what approved? Your account? No, you just need a current email address. It is an "invitation only" system, but invitations are 99 per account, probably repopulating after a short period of time. If not enough people use it, maybe more people should use it so that more people should use it? I personally have cut off all contact with people who refuse to use Google Talk(Well, at least in the IM form). | |
For those of you who don't know, you can set Google to keep a record of all of your conversations in your gmail account for future reference outside of your local computer. This is a great feature and has helped me get my IP address from away from home more than once. This is optional, of course, and can be turned off at any point within both gmail and chat windows inside of the GTalk client.
On top of all that, you can chat inside your Gmail inbox just as you do normally. It is completely real time, even with the "user is typing" thing and runs smooth. It is the best web integrated chat that I have found outside of flash.