I bought my first mac. I’m learning to make it do what I want it to do. I installed firefox & thunderbird making them the defaults (clever of apple to put those options in the programs I’m trying to avoid opening. bad apple, bad, bad apple.) Doing software updates. Will later install open office, maybe sunbird. Need a mac multinetwork chat client. Ayttm doesn’t do mac. Everybuddy? Trillian?
The honeymoon has not yet worn off. Pretty toy.
Bet it’ll do warcraft III pretty darn spanky, too.
I’ve heard good things about Adium — never used it myself, but it certainly looks pretty slick.
Adium is the bomb-diggity.
It even does Zephyr.
I use Adium. I used to use Fire, but I’ve switched for good. Adium is more pleasing to the eye, is more customizable (sp?), and has more features (e.g., logging in to more than one account per service simultaneously, if you need to). Your personal preference may vary, though. There’s an ooold article that compares the programs, which might be of help.
Speaking of honeymoons… I just installed a new 120 GB Seagate Barracuda V and upgraded to Panther, and I feel like I just renewed my vows. And with this new hard disk, the machine is utterly quiet (Cube doesn’t have a fan). You could hear a pin drop in here.
Welcome to the Mac world. And as they say, “Once you go Mac, you never go back.”
You may or may not find this list useful, but I accidentally posted this publically and, since it got comments before I noticed, decided to leave it that way.
They’re not all programs I use anymore, since a few haven’t been updated to work with the latest OS X release (gBrowser comes to mind), but I’ve at least tried and liked all of them at one point. YMMV.
I’ll third the Adium X recommendation. Although, it’s all wonky when it comes to file transfers and stuff, so I always end up going into other clients to do that sort of thing (it rarely happens for me, though, so it’s not a big deal). It’s super pretty, and there’s a large mod community out there who will pretty much come up with anything you could think of before you’d actually want it yourself, all housed at the same site.
Firefox? Thunderbird? Why? I personally like both Safari and the Mail client … they run rather smoothly, and Safari’s minimalist design is quite inspiring. It’s not like you have to worry about virus and/or “additional taskbar functionality” being added to them, since Apple has such a small market share of the browser world. I’ve never had a problem with either. Just curious as to your choice …
I picked firefox & thunderbird awhile ago as my clients of choice, because they are open source and available free of charge for every OS out there. They’re pretty fully featured, reasonably stable, and basically the same. So, now, as much as anything, it’s that I’m used to them.
I don’t know safari or mail well enough to critique them really. They may be rocking, but my occasional use of safari didn’t seem to offer any more than firefox.
I’ve liked Adium as well. It integrates with your Mac Addressbook application, so if you have folks’ chat names entered into their addressbook entries, it’ll display their real name when you mouseover the chat name (or you can just display the real name in the buddy list). It’ll also consolidate folks with multiple chat names (again, provided you enter the info into addressbook) into one entry on the buddy list – something I find quite useful with the proliferation of chat names.
If you used to use Outlook for your addressbook stuff on the PC, I’d highly recommend Outlook 2 Mac, a $10 program that’ll convert all your addressbook, calendar, and email over to a mac-readable format. Well worth the cost, trust me.
Adium is probably the best one out there. Every time I try it though, I always find some nagging bug that just makes me go back to iChat.
It should also run World of Warcraft!
Join us on Proudmoore server! The only server with 3 gay guilds!
Vice and Valour’s the good one. 😉
Bring Brian.
Yeah! World of Warcraft!!
Not that sissy FF11.
You keep your spreading taint to yourself, mister.