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iChat Question
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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I have an MSN and Yahoo acount, is there a way to add them to iChat and have only one app to IM with ?
George
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Moderator  Join Date: May 2001
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No, but take a look at AdiumX or Fire, they are Trillian-like messenger applications which can use several different im protocols at once. The downside is that there is no voice or video chat.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
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Actually, you can do this in iChat 3.0 in Tiger. It's just a little more difficult to do than in Adium, etc. In order to get MSN and Yahoo in iChat you have to set it up through a Jabber server, which, through transports, can connect to the MSN and Yahoo servers. There are various descriptions of how to do this out on the web. Here's one forum discussion about it with links to tutorials: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...50505025440436
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Moderator Join Date: May 2001
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Interesting, I didn't know that (Jabber is not really popular among my friends).
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: London'ish
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Yeah, with the help of a friend, I just managed to get MSN working on iChat, via Jabber. It was definitely a pain in the ass though, as it needs another app to set it up. But once done, that app can then be junked (i used psi).
Works pretty nicely now tho.
However, you wont see all the weird graphics and smilie things that MSN junkies seem to love so much, and file transfers won't work either. I don't particularly care about that tho.
Its just nice to finally junk those god awful MSN apps, like mercury and microsofts own pitiful offering.
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