I first heard about Fire a while back, it’s an IM client for OS X that works with everything. AIM, ICQ, irc, Jabber, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger all in one app. The beauty of this should be obvious, run one program rather than six. I downloaded it back then when it was still beta and found it to be way too buggy for regular use, and forgot about it, but the 1.0 version has just been released and it looks a lot better. I’m quiting a bunch of apps and loading this up right now.
To get an instant map to any address, just go to your Address Book and right click on the address field of any one of your contacts and select "Map Of." The address will then be revealed in Google Maps on Safari. You can do the same if a data detector determines there is an address in an e-mail in Mail.
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Bill Anderson said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Judith, have you looked at Proteus? I found it to have more features than Fire, but that was before the 1.0 release. I'll be checkin' it out.
-Bill
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authgeek said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
I prefer Adium X (http://adium.sourceforge.net) - it's still in beta but it's come a long way and offers some really great features.
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sean bonner said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Don't call me Judith. =)
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judith said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
hey sean - will i see you on may 3 at the ny bloggers?
and to answer bill's question, i haven't looked at proteus lately - just downloaded the 4.0 betal though... thanks bill...
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Boris Mann said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
I've recently switched to Adium [1] after running Fire for a long time. Don't let it's low version number fool you -- it's great. If I had to pick just one feature, the fact that it displays full names and buddy icons from Address Book. Dontcha just love integration!?
And ducks, I also like ducks.
[1] http://www.bmannconsulting.com/node/view/1079
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maya said 4:16PM on 6-16-2005
Is there an IM client which can do voice chat (if not webcam) with windows users?
I notice that Fire doesnt support voice chat on say Yahoo Messenger or MSN.
Thanks
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barb dybwad said 4:41PM on 10-07-2005
Maya - for cross-platform voice to voice you can also try Skype:
http://www.skype.com/
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