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Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services. Adium supports Facebook Chat, AIM (OSCAR), ICQ, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Japan, MSN, Jabber, Google Talk, Lotus Sametime, Bonjour, MySpace IM, Novell GroupWise, QQ, and Gadu-Gadu.
Version History Home Page AOL Instant Messenger(AIM) allows you to send instant messages to other people who use AOL, AIM, ICQ, or certain mobile phones.
Download Download Home Page aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as: * Display pictures * Custom emoticons * Multi-language support * Webcam support (in theory, but not at the moment) * Sign in to more than one account at once * Full-speed File transfers * Group support * Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds * Chat logs * Timestamping * Event alarms * Tabbed chat windows
Home Page Beginning with the earliest MUDs (Multi User Dungeons), on through today's MUSHes, MUXes, MOOs, MUCKs and all the other varied offspring of the original MUD, there have been text-based multiuser games around since the early days of the Internet. But to connect to these MU*s, you generally need a client slightly more advanced than plain old telnet! Atlantis is a client specifically designed to aid in playing those type of games. It is designed from the ground up entirely in Cocoa, and integrates with system services - such as the Mac OS X spellchecker - as much as possible.
User Manual Home Page Chax is a collection of minor modifications and additions that make using Apple's iChat more enjoyable. Features - Unified contact list shows all contacts from all accounts in one window - Growl notifications for new messages and users changing status - Automatically resize the contact list to fit the number of visible users - Powerful, searchable log viewer that can also browse images and URLs from past conversations - Activity log that displays your contacts' status changes - Auto-accept file transfers, AV chats, and screen sharing requests - Always on top option for contact list, message windows and AV chats - Set font of names, status messages, and group separators - Option to immediately display new messages, skipping the notification window - Show status changes directly in the message window - Additional unread message notifications in the Dock - Automatically hide chat windows and contact lists when iChat is inactive - Toggle text status visibility of users - Properly use ICQ accounts without sending text formatting in messages
Download Download Home Page Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform communication tool with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.
Home Page Traditionally, chat clients on the Mac have been anything but glamorous. Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client which aims to fill this void. By adhering to Mac OS X interface conventions, Colloquy has the look and feel of a quality Mac application.
Home Page Eggdrop is the world's most popular Open Source IRC bot, designed for flexibility and ease of use, and is freely distributable under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Eggdrop was originally developed by Robey Pointer; however, he no longer works on Eggdrop so please do not contact him for help solving a problem or bug. The oldest IRC bot still in active development (Eggdrop was created in 1993)
Download Page Home Page An open source MUD client based on TinTin+.
Home Page Since sometimes reading "lol" doesn't deliver the same punch as actually hearing your friend laugh at your jokes, you can now use voice and video capabilities in your Google Chat properties (i.e Gmail, Google+, orkut). From within these services, you can have an actual conversation with someone (seriously, out loud), or even chat face to face over video. Here's what you'll need to get started: - Download the voice and video chat plug-in, quit all open browser windows, and install the plug-in. - Sign in to Gmail, Google+, iGoogle, orkut, or your Chrome OS device
Home Page iChat supports ICQ, MobileMe, Mac.com, Google Talk and Jabber accounts. Mac OS X Lion adds support for Yahoo! Chat. A powerful instant text messaging application, iChat comes with Mac OS X and is loaded with great features that make sending messages to your AIM or MobileMe buddies fast and easy. Most Mac computers include a built-in iSight camera and mic. When you use them with iChat, you get the easiest way to have high-quality video and audio chats with your friends and family.
One of the world's largest cross-platform online communities. Version 3.4 of ICQ for Mac Brings you AOL interoperability, as well as better compatibility with Mac OS X.
Home Page Icy Juice is still not feature-complete, and the current release is a preview and an invitation for users to express their needs and expectations from an ICQ client.
Home Page Since Mac OS X 10.3, there is no identd server on the system. So I've decided to build a standalone identd server. This server runs on Panther and Tiger (and Leopard too) and is provided with a preference pane that allows you to easily start or stop it. This identd server returns the short username of the user which is currently logged in or your choice of username. This kind of server could be useful if your Macintosh is behind a proxy server which requires authentication or when you use IRC.
Home Page The infobot connects to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server, joins some channels (maybe), and begins accumulating factoids. To run one, download the source, uncompress it, untar it, edit the config files, and its up. Interacting with the bot is pretty straightforward. The bot will interact via message or on-channel.
Download Page Home Page ircII is an IRC and ICB client that runs under most UNIX platforms. It comes in source form and is completely free of any charges or fees. The ircII project is a group of people who maintain the source code, incorporating fixes and new features.
Home Page Ircle is a Macintosh program to use IRC (Internet Relay Chat). IRC enables you to talk with typed messages, in realtime, to other Internet users around the world. IRC is organized in channels on a specific topic. You can also talk privately with someone. ircle supports multiple server connections, AppleScript, video sending and more.
Home Page iroffer is a software program that acts as a fileserver for IRC. It is similar to a FTP server or WEB server, but users can download files using the DCC protocol of IRC instead of a web browser. Unlike similar programs, iroffer is not a script, it is a standalone executable written entirely in c from scratch with high transfer speed and efficiency in mind. iroffer has been found to transfer over 50MByte/sec over a gigabit ethernet connection.
Download Page Home Page Irssi is a terminal based IRC client for UNIX systems. It also supports SILC and ICB protocols via plugins.
Home Page Linkinus provides a rich, social IRC experience; featuring embedded media, short URL expansion, message starring, combined chats, emoticons, and much more! Try Linkinus today, and enjoy a truly next generation IRC client.
Home Page Based on the *nix IRC client irssi (http://www.irssi.org), MacIrssi is a powerful, free of charge, open source IRC client. It combines the power of the irssi engine with an elegant and flexible GUI.
Home Page Mercury is a Java Based MSN client. Sign in with multiple accounts Fast file transfering Offline messaging Extensive event notifications User defined event actions Smart groups (groups made from a search result) Single window (tabbed) conversations Customizable contact list Customizable message views Custom status icons Custom emoticons
Home Page Messenger for Mac provides real-time collaboration between people in different locations. Using your Windows Live ID, you can use instant messaging and audio and video calls to communicate with your contacts.
Home Page MudWalker is an in-development open-source MUD client for Mac OS X (OSX). Features Compact connection windows that use no unnecessary screen space. Supports Telnet, MCP, ANSI color, and TWin protocols. Full support for extended character sets, including Unicode and Windows encodings. Scripting using the Lua programming language. Automatic login scripts with support for multiple accounts. Command aliases. Automatic logging. Library feature automatically remembers servers you've connected to and the location of your settings files for them. URLs become clickable links. Scripts can make arbitrary text into links which send commands. Local text editing (MCP-based, requires server support). Native Mac OS X Cocoa application.
Home Page Remember the days when computer displayed only characters, green on black? That's also the time when the first Multi User Dungeons were created, not so long ago incarnated as online chats in the modern Internet. Surprisingly, these ancient arenas of computer aided communication and game place still flourish nowadays, despite the fancy graphics and animations of modern web technology. Nuntius is a client software that brings you right in there and connects yout to the most popular MUDs worldwide. Nuntius features a wide variety of features of modern MUD clients, including ANSI control sequences, triggers, text capturing, full customization of colors and behaviour and even audio speech output of what's been talked on the MUD. All of this you'll get in a convenient MacOS X Aqua interface.
Home Page Proteus is an all in one Instant Messaging program for OSX. What does this mean? Well, no longer do you need all your instant messaging applications open at once, cut it down to one clean application, with better management across board! (And prettier too!) What services does it support? So far, ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger (including .Mac), MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Japan, Gadu Gadu, Jabber, and iChat Rendezvous. More are always in the works!
Home Page Psi is an instant messaging application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X that connects to the free, open Jabber IM network (also known as XMPP), including Google Talk.
Home Page Rapscallion is a MUD client. Features include triggers and blocks, multi-channel sessions, aliases, command history, travel, ansi color translation etc.
Savitar is a software application designed to connect people using Macintosh computers to MUVE (Multi-user Virtual Environment) servers. These MUVE servers are found throughout the Internet. Savitar works as a "client" application which basically means it hooks your computer to one or more of these servers and allows you to interact with the people you find there.
Home Page Snak will let you participate in discussions in virtual meeting rooms on the Internet, called IRC channels. There are thousands of meeting rooms full of people from all over the world.
Home Page TinTin++ is a free mud client that runs on the Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms.
Home Page Trebuchet Tk is a client program for connecting to TinyMUD style social MUD servers on the InterNet. This program is designed to be used with TinyMUD, TinyMUCK, TinyMUSH, MOO, and several other variants. It's probably not well designed for combat oriented MUDs like LPMUD and Diku, but it does support them.
Home Page XChat Azure is the irc client X-Chat with an Aqua interface for MacOS X.
Download Home Page Stay connected to Messenger on your mobile phone. Use webcam to share live video with your friends. Send files of any size directly to your online friends. Express your feelings in a conversation using little animated smiley faces. Make free worldwide PC-to-PC calls. Plus call regular or mobile phones in the U.S. and worldwide for as low as 1¢/min.
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