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First Look: Agile Messenger with push notifications

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Jul 18th, 2009)

Agile Messenger was recently updated to support iPhone OS 3.0's push notifications. The obvious comparison will be to BeejiveIM, since they both do the same thing: provide a multi-client chat app offering push notifications on your iPhone. We'll have a hands-on with Beejive later, but this is how ...

Start iChat (or Adium) without logging into services

by Cory Bohon (Dec 17th, 2008)

Have you ever wanted to open iChat or Adium to check a chat log, account setting, or other information, but didn't want to connect to your instant messaging services? Rob Griffiths at Macworld offers a great tip on how you can easily do this, and it won't annoy your online buddies with incessant ...

BeeJive Instant Messenger app now available for hefty price

by Cory Bohon (Sep 29th, 2008)

If you used an iPhone before native applications came along, then you may have used BeeJive's web app for instant messaging. BeeJive [iTunes link] has now released a native application for the iPhone/iPod touch. Some of the features of BeeJive for iPhone are: 24/7 connectivity, but easy on ...

Adium 1.3 released

by Cory Bohon (Aug 25th, 2008)

Multi-service, open source and free chat client Adium received a new point release tonight, with new features and a redesigned interface for viewing contact information. Adium 1.3 features the following goodies: Get Info Window is now called the "Contact Inspector" The aforementioned Contact ...

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