January 18, 2011
When you really think about it, what makes college and university great? It’s not just the education you get. It’s the people you meet and the conversations you have with them. It’s that great melting pot of ideas that comes from having smart people with different fields of expertise sharing the same space and chatting [...]
November 5, 2010
Remember the days before multi-platform instant messengers? In that long-lost time the instant messenger you chose to use said something about you. “Do you have an Instant Messenger?” friends would ask. “Yeah, I use ICQ” I’d reply. Nods or approval or disapproval followed depending on their choice of IM client. Now, of course, you can [...]
September 19, 2010
There was a time when Blackberry users rubbed their Blackberry Messenger service in all of our faces, and rightfully so. Having a free means of contacting their friends, with nothing more than a pin number to send messages and avoid SMS charges from their carrier was something only they could enjoy. iPhone app developers caught [...]
August 21, 2010
How many chat programs do you use? Chances are most of us at least have one Google Talk, MSN, and AIM account. That’s not taking into account Yahoo, Facebook chat, and whatever else people happen to be using these days. So when you need to have a group chat, whether it’s a bunch of friends, [...]
August 8, 2010
You might think that IRC (Internet Relay Chat), a chat protocol first developed in 1988, has gone the way of the dinosaur. But, according to Wikipedia, the most popular IRC networks still serve over half a million users at a time, and IRC still has some unique uses that might surprise you. One of the [...]
August 1, 2010
What with the web getting more and more social by the day, people are using instant messaging a lot to keep in touch with each other. Not only do people use it for the everyday hello, sometimes entire meetings may be conducted over chat. Therefore, it becomes really important for a user to be up [...]
May 17, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers & Shakers post. Each week we are taking one software category from CNet and listing the top ten most downloaded apps in it. This week we will be looking at communication software. These are the apps that we use to connect with others, chat or email with [...]
May 11, 2010
I have to admit, I’ve bounced around among countless free Instant Messaging services. I started out chatting, like many geeks, on the popular IRC chat rooms or the MUDD online gaming communities of the 1990s – straight from an IBM dumb terminal in the college computer clusters. As the Internet progressed and the recent “Web [...]
January 15, 2010
Last time I wrote an article on some cool tips and tricks in Windows Live Messenger such as how to remove ads, or view who has blocked or deleted you as a contact. This time, I am going to explore the magical features that Messenger Plus! Live brings to WLM. Messenger Plus! Live is basically [...]
December 20, 2009
Some people are natural born chatters. They have friends from each and every existing chat service and have to stay connected with their chatting friends all the time. They don’t mind the trouble of having to open several chatting clients and manage them across several platforms. But life doesn’t have to be that hard. There [...]
