Nov 07
Since I set up iChat to work with my Google Talk account recently, I have been using iChat more. Today I ran across an app that was recommended to me some time ago, but that I never tried because, frankly, I never used iChat. Well today I downloaded Chax, a plugin for iChat, that allows a number of new features. First on my list is tabbed chat window, which is great because you don’t end up with a screen full of chat windows. Growl integration is alo a nice feature. It’s definitely worth installing and best of all its free! Oh, but unfortunately, its not yet compatible with Leopard.
Chax
Nov 04
I really like the idea of iChat for video conferencing, but I don’t use .Mac and I don’t really know anyone that still uses AIM. But I do know a hand full of Mac users that have MacBooks with iChat that use Google Talk, so a few days ago I started loking for a way to hack Google Talk into iChat. Well if I had just paid attention when I was first setting iChat up I would have noticed that it has Jabber support built in. Once I noticed that, it was a just a quick search for how to set up Google Talk through Jabber in iChat, which yielded a great how-to in Googles Help section.
Setup is a breeze. Within about 5 minutes I had set up my computer and my spouse’s computer with our Google accounts and we were able to use iChat with our Google accounts.
I heard a rumor somewhere recently that Google is going to allow users of MSN, AIM, and Yahoo to chat through Google Talk (which can already be down with a bit of work on your part) and that will make iChat the best chat client around.
Happy Chatting
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