IM on Fire!

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.

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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...

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barb dybwad

Maya - for cross-platform voice to voice you can also try Skype: http://www.skype.com/

January 21 2005 at 1:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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

January 21 2005 at 11:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Boris Mann

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

April 22 2004 at 1:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

judith

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...

April 21 2004 at 6:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sean Bonner

Don't call me Judith. =)

April 21 2004 at 6:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

authgeek

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.

April 21 2004 at 6:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill Anderson

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

April 21 2004 at 5:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply