Bye Bye iChat: Getting Started With The New OS X Messages App [Mountain Lion]
As the dust surrounding Apple’s OS X Mountain Lion release settles, it’s time to evaluate whether those killer features announced earlier this year are really that good. For me the most exciting addition when I first heard the announcement was the new Messages app, which brings Apple’s closed iMessage platform to the desktop.
3 Tips To Make Skype More Enjoyable [Mac]
Skype, in terms of software design, continues to baffle me. It's beautifully designed, and most of the time it's also charmingly easy to use, but once in a blue moon you discover these little quirks that rain on your Skype parade. It may be how the application masterfully ignores basic interface guidelines. Here are some three very basic tips to make your Skype experience on Mac OS X a more enjoyable one.
Set Up A Multi-Party Online Meeting The Easy Way With AnyMeeting
There are many tools and services that can help bridge communication between remote parties in real-time these days. Facebook, Skype, Google Hangouts, you name it, there are endless ways to connect the masses. Depending on the needs of the users, these tools have come to integrate not just audio calls, but also webcam features, screen-sharing options, support for multiple users in a meeting and more.
Combine All Your IM Accounts In One Application With Pidgin [Windows & Linux]
Pidgin is a free instant-messaging client that combines all your IM accounts in one simple application. Instead of running several different IM clients that display ads and eat up memory, just use Pidgin. All your chat contacts across every network will be combined into a single buddy list, and all your conversations can be combined into a single tabbed chat window – or multiple windows.
Tips On Planning & Holding Effective Meetings With Google Hangouts
With today's Internet technology, holding online meetings can be both efficient and cost-effective especially if you pre-plan them and make use of time-saving tools. For the last couple of months I've participated in online meetings using Google Hangouts. Though it has limitations, the voice and video platform is fairly easy to use, and it includes extra features useful for holding meetings.
The Top 5 Best Third-Party Apps To Customize Your Skype App
Skype is a great way to communicate with friends, family and colleagues across the Internet using its text, voice and webcam chat features. But it can all get a little bit dull, using it in the same way, day after day. But Skype is thankfully equipped with all of the necessary hooks for third party apps to customize and improve the experience.
10 Tips To Get Most Out Of Skype Video Conferences
With the right setup, Skype can be a great tool for private or professional video conferences. Video chat requires quite significant resources from your computer. This article will walk you through the basic preparations that should precede any use of Skype and it will conclude with specific tips for video conferences.
Set Up A Quick IM System On Your Intranet With EZIM
Everyone is pretty familiar with all of the major Internet IM services, but companies and small businesses across the world have a similar need to allow people connected to a protected internal LAN with the ability to communicate via chat, without the need to connect to such outside IM services.
Omegle - A Site Like ChatRoulette That Promises More Strangers To Talk To
Omegle matches you with random strangers for one-on-one text and video chats. At any given time, you will find thousands of people online and ready to chat. Unlike ChatRoulette, Omegle lets you to find chat partners based on common interest. Omegle even has a feature that allows you to spy on others discussing a question you ask them.
First Tests With Apple's New Messages Beta [Mac]
Last week, without a lot of fanfare, Apple released the beta version of its new Mac chat program, simply called Messages. Messages also happens to be a sneak preview application of what's to come in the next version of its operating system, Mountain Lion—to be released later this Summer. The following is a basic overview of the chat program and what you should consider before downloading and installing it.
The Top 7 Best Free IRC Clients for Windows 7
For most of us, chatrooms might seem like a relic of the past, but they're still around. If you're interested in that sort of thing, you’ll want to look into the IRC protocol. For those of you who are already familiar with IRC, you can jump past the next section to the list of awesome IRC clients for Windows 7. For those of you who have never heard of IRC, here’s a quick crash course.
How to Automatically Join IRC Servers and Channels With HydraIRC
Last week, I made my attempt at welcoming newbies to the wonderful world of Internet Relay Chats. This week, we're going to step things up to the next level for those of you who have decided that HydraIRC belongs in your taskbar. If you're anything like me, you feel it's necessary to be in 50 different channels at once. It's time for you to learn how to save yourself a lot of time at every startup.
Chat on IRC Like It's 1995 With HydraIRC [Windows]
You may be taking your Skype instant messaging and video calls or your iPhone FaceTime for granted, but way back before the standalone IM client was even an idea, there was one major solution: IRC (Internet Relay Chat). There are a lot of multi-IM clients that support the IRC protocol, but nothing really beats the efficiency and oldschool feel of a standalone chat client.
5 Google Talk Chatbots That Are Still Useful
Recently, I started exploring the potential of using bots on my website to interact with my visitors. After accomplishing that task, I thought that it might be worthwhile to explore what other bots still exist out there that might have some useful features. Most people have their chat client always open and sitting off to the side or at the bottom of the screen, so why not put that chat client to use while it's open?
Get The Advantage By Talking To Your Gamer Friends With Mumble Voice Chat
Mumble improves on other voice chat applications for gamers and offers quite a few advantages. It's optimized for low-latency communications, making it perfect for hectic game situations where every second counts. If you're coming from Ventrilo, another popular voice chat application for gamers, you'll also find that Mumble has a much more streamlined interface.
3 Ultra-Lightweight Programs That Don't Get Enough Love
It seems to me like a lot of the commonly discussed programs are major resource hogs. Web browsers, media players, you name it, the most popular programs from these categories keep your CPU working really hard. Want to give your computer a break? You can stop using it or turn it off altogether, but that’s probably not realistic when we’re at the age where we rely on our machines and devices so much.
imo.im - Multi-Protocol Instant Messaging Nirvana [Android 1.6+]
Google Talk is great, but not if you have friends scattered across MSN, AIM, Yahoo, Facebook and every other chat network ever created. You don’t have to run eleven different apps to stay in touch; just use imo.im for Android and get every protocol in one slick app. It integrates nicely with Android and has a simple, clean interface.
4 More Awesome Skype Apps You Should Install [Windows]
Skype is a useful and popular chat and VoIP application, which can become even more useful after installing some Skype apps.There are lots more things you can do with Skype apps, such as launching multiple accounts, adding spell checks, translating chats and initiating calls with one click.
3 Must-Have Skype Apps To Enhance Your Chat Experience
Skype is a free video and audio chat client that is available for many different platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Google Android. One reason Skype has been so successful is that besides high quality online audio and video chat, it offers cheap rates for calling phones and mobiles around the world. What most people don't know is that Skype also supports apps.