Archive for iChat

Google Talk for iPhone

A lot of folks love Google Talk over any other instan messanger, even Adium or iChat, because of a couple of features,

    one, it works in your browser with no extra software,
    two, it saves all your chats, and includes their text when you search through your emails
    three, it has a neat “off the record” feature that disables item two, other software like ichat is either in “always record conversations” or “never record conversations”

Well, starting today, Google talk has a slick new webapp for the iphone that gives you all your Google talk benefits right to your iPhone or iPod touch, try it out here: google.com/talk

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iChat: Adding a buddy

iChat is an instant messenger created by Macintosh and based on AIM.  One of the options that iChat presents to the user is the ability to add buddies.  A user can do this by:1. Open iChat up.2. Select Buddies on the top toolbar and click Add Buddy.3. Enter in their screen name as well as what type it is (AIM or .Mac).4. Click Add and they will be entered as a buddy.

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Secure Chats

With the proliferation of Text, Audio and Video Messaging using iChat, Aim, Skype or GTalk. Its very comforting to see that you can encrypt your conversations completely private using encryption.To do this, enable it in your preferences pane of iChat, you’ll need to have .mac to use this feature and thats on more great feature of the .mac service.   

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