Archive | Instant Messaging

13 March 2009 ~ 0 Comments

Finally Twitter Returns to Adium

I was pretty darn upset when Twitter sacked its IM service, but this from ReadWriteWeb: Popular Mac multi-service IM software Adium will include sophisticated support for Twitter in its next version, Adium has announced on its blog. Instant messaging access has been shut off for months and isn’t coming back any time soon, the company [...]

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07 November 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Less need for Twitter

I know I have talked about Twitter’s lack of IM support a lot lately, but this may be the end of my ranting. Today I read that FriendFeed has IM support! Now the question is – do I want/need to keep using Twitter? So many of my friends are using it and I do have [...]

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19 October 2008 ~ 8 Comments

Why use Twitter?

I started using Twitter at a conference because I figured out how to get updates via IM. I use Adium and with this one tool I can log into my work Gtalk, personal Gtalk, AIM, Yahoo, Facebook and Meebo Rooms – why would I use anything else? Since Twitter crashed a few months ago IM [...]

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28 August 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Love me Some Adium

I’m a poet and didn’t even know it Seriously though, Adium has released version 1.3 and if you’re a Mac user you need this IM Client!! I’ve been using the beta for a while, but if you weren’t brave like me you may not know that Adium now supports Facebook chat and so much more! [...]

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23 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

New Twitter Error Page

This is so sad – they wait til I get hooked and then everything dies! Technorati Tags: twitter

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07 July 2008 ~ 10 Comments

The Twitter Exodus

At first I didn’t see a point to using Twitter – mainly because I don’t pay for text messaging on my phone and I didn’t want to visit the Twitter site on a regular basis. Then I started working from home and had IM open all day. Twitter’s IM functionality was very handy and so [...]

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03 July 2008 ~ 0 Comments

Adium with Facebook Chat!

I broke down and installed the new beta of Adium because I wanted Facebook chat – and it’s awesome!!! I was just able to have a Facebook chat right in Adium without having to login to Facebook. Technorati Tags: facebook, adium

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16 June 2008 ~ 4 Comments

Loosing Faith in Twitter

Okay, now this is a bit much! I started using Twitter, because I was on IM all day and it was easy to keep up with friends using the IM functionality. Now there is only partial IM functionality – I receive tweets, but can’t send them. I kept my faith that the functionality would be [...]

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09 June 2008 ~ 2 Comments

Facebook Chat

Facebook now has chat (if you hadn’t heard already). I don’t use it much because it means going to Facebook and keeping it open. Up til now I had only heard about one app that let you chat on Facebook – and that’s Digsby – but it doesn’t have an app for Mac yet. So [...]

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06 June 2008 ~ 4 Comments

IM = Productivity

Some employers think that IM can lead to a lack in productivity – but I’m here to tell you that that is not true! Right now I’m working virtually, so IM is necessary, but when I worked in the library I used IM to eliminate some of the silly interruptions that came from people coming [...]

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