Tutorial on How to use iChat as a Twitter client

Posted on June 10th, 2009 in Macintosh Tips & Help, iChat | View Comments

Many times requested, a lot of friends and iChat buddies and Twitter friends want to have this result: twitter-ichat The tutorial starts after the jump: Read the rest of this entry »

Portable Adium: Adium for Portable Devices

Posted on July 5th, 2008 in Freeware | View Comments

Portable Adium is the multiprotocol Adium instant messaging client (that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Facebook and more) packaged as portable application.
As a result, you’ll be able to carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk).
All you need are 50 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your conctact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.

Adium application, preference file and profile folder are inside the bundle:
Portable Adium.app/Contents/Resources/app/

Download Portable Adium here.

Fix All Of Leopard’s Internet Connection Issues

Posted on May 29th, 2008 in Leopard, Macintosh Tips & Help | View Comments

This trick solved many of the problems I had with Leopard: the 10 secs delay for Mail to check my email, slow connection on MSN Messenger, Adium won’t connect to MSN at all…
Two steps to fix this(these) issue(s):

  1. go to Network > Advanced > DNS, and add these DNS: 4.2.2.2 & 141.1.1.1, click on “Apply” and close system preferences.
  2. open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app), and type this command: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache

Now you can start your applications and you’ll feel the change!

Microsoft Messenger for Mac 7

Posted on April 30th, 2008 in 3rd Party Software, Freeware, Microsoft | View Comments

[lang_en]A new version of messenger for Mac is available.

Good news: it finally supports video-conference.

Bad news: video is only accessible for Microsoft Office Communications Server users.

You can get it here

Mac Os X users can use Skype, iChat or aMsn to video-chat with buddies.

[/lang_en]

aMSN Free MSN clone with Webcam Support

Posted on February 24th, 2008 in 3rd Party Software, Microsoft | View Comments

289px-amsn.pngIt doesn’t have a beautiful interface, but it has all the features you ever dreamed of: aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:

  1. Offline Messaging
  2. Voice Clips
  3. Display pictures
  4. Custom emoticons
  5. Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
  6. Webcam support
  7. Sign in to more than one account at once
  8. Full-speed File transfers
  9. Group support
  10. Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
  11. Chat logs
  12. Timestamping
  13. Event alarms
  14. Conferencing support
  15. Tabbed chat windows

Download it here.

When MS updates MSN: Big Trouble

Posted on September 18th, 2007 in Microsoft | View Comments

I was chatting with a nice person for the first time on MSN and… :shock:

Surpriiiise

Disconnection… The person went offline…
NB: I sign in to MSN with my dotmac address (@mac.com)

Maria told me to follow the steps, it will probably leads me somewhere, so I clicked on “OK”, I had to “switch” to a @hotmail.com account or to their new @messengeruser.com (that’s an ugly name) account (which is a hotmail account without email support).
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Want to know Who Blocked you on MSN?

Posted on August 12th, 2007 in Macintosh Tips & Help | View Comments

[lang_en]Blocked Punt
In this web based solution, all you’ll have to do is enter your MSN Messenger login and password in a form, click on “Analyze” and it will give you a full list of your MSN contacts and you’ll know which of them blocked you.

CheckMessenger is the site.[/lang_en]

[lang_fr]Blocked Punt
Cette solution internet vous permet rien qu’en entrant vos données MSN de savoir qui vous a bloqué, après avoir rempli le formulaire, cliquez sur “Analyze” et vous obtiendrez la liste complète de tous ceux et celles qui vous on bloqué.

CheckMessenger est le site en question.[/lang_fr]
[lang_es]Blocked Punt
En este Web basado la solución, toda lo que usted tendrá que hacer es incorporar su conexión del mensajero de MSN y la palabra de paso en una forma, hace clic encendido “Analyze” y le dará una lista completa de sus contactos de MSN y usted sabrá cuál de él le bloqueó.

CheckMessenger es el sitio.[/lang_es]

First thoughts on WWDC

Posted on June 12th, 2007 in Leopard | View Comments

I won’t repeat what you all have seen on Steve Jobs’s Keynote and what you’ve read on Apple.com but here are some of my views on Apple new stuffs…

  1.  iChat: I was really hoping and expecting for iChat to handle MSN and Yahoo! but it’s clear: iChat IS AIM, No MSN and/or Other IM support…iChat is AIM
  2. Safari for Windows: just like iTunes for Windows helped Apple to conquer some PC users for the iPod, Safari will probably be the bridge to iPhone
  3. Core Animation: the Leopard OS will really be beautiful, great special effects (stacks), amazing transparency effects (menu bar) and reflection (the new dock).Stacks

These are the 3 points that I wanted to add   :razz: