A list of sites, companies and authors that release Instant Messengers for your Apple Mac |
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Coccinella
a free and open-source cross-platform chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people including File transfer, Plugin system, Group Chat, Avatars, emoticons, multi-language, Secured connections etc |
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Ayttm
provides all-in-one chat functionality for several major instant messaging services from one simple program |
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aMSN
a free open source MSN Messenger clone supporting Display pictures, Custom emoticons, Multi-language, Webcam, multi-sign in, File transfers, logs, Timestamping, Event alarms, Conferencing support, Tabbed chat windows |
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Skype
"Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world. Calls, chats and file transfers work between all kinds of computers." |
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ICQ
another out of date version when compared to what Windows users have on offer... it's still cool, it's just... well, out of date |
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Gaim
a multi-protocol instant messaging compatible with AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks... |
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Fire
Supports AIM®, ICQ®, IRC, Jabber® (GoogleTalk & iChat Server), MSN® Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger®, Apple Bonjour®
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AIM
not my favourite... but it's there |
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BitWiseIM
An encrypted, cross-platform Instant Messaging client that supports Text, Files Transfers, Whiteboards, Voice & more |
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iChat
a great Mac Messenger... of course ;) |
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Adium
Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo |
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Yahoo! Messenger
another cut down version of the Yahoo! Messenger available for Windows, it does have webcam though :) |
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Mercury
Mercury is a Java-based MSN client (bee: webcam works great!) |
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Microsoft Messenger
a lesser version of the Microsoft Messenger for windows, no webcam support as at version 5.1 (bee: check out Mercury for MSN with webcam :) |
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