AIM ads? This is a JOKE!

[Nocturnal]

http://www.supz.net/aim.jpg

This is ridiculous, forcing these ads right next to my buddylist. Anyone know how to get around these idiotic ads?

 

[mundane]

I've been using this, on the rare occasion I use AIM: http://aftermath.dyndns.org:8888/~aimadhack/. It's been awhile since I've used AIM though, so it might not block the current ad content.

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm thinking of just going back to Trillian.

 

[yukichigai]

If you go back to trillian you may want to stay away from the newest version. It has utter crap for IRC support and is a bit more resource intensive than 2.0.

 

[Schadenfroh]

why not try GAIM or Miranda? Both are open source and do not use much ram.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

deadAIM.

You can still use AIM, but with the BS hacked out and a couple nice features added.

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: ArmchairAthlete
deadAIM.

You can still use AIM, but with the BS hacked out and a couple nice features added.

This, or just use an old version

 

[Spikesoldier]

trillian because it does my aim and icq in one

i actually like trillian3, and my system is strong enough to support memory intensive apps such as firefox, photoshop and trillian3.

edit: UD rosetta too, thats a big one

 

[rh71]

why did you ever leave trillian ?

 

[timswim78]

GAIM will also do AIM and ICQ. I have never had a problem with it.

 

[Merlyn3D]

trillian > *

BTW, most of the hacks (deadaim, middle_man, aimutation) won't work with the newest AIM's. And even if they did, they don't prevent AIM from using about 33+MB of memory. Trillian3 sits in my RAM right now at 8MB, connected to AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, and Rendezvous whilst running a mail plugin, a weather plugin, and a share watching plugin. Until just ONE of the IM clients considers making a lite version which slims its memory footprint down to below 10MB, I won't consider switching away from Trillian.

PS - I run trillian on a P4M 1.8 thinkpad with 512MB memory, and it runs fine. It's really not as much of a performance hog as most people make it out to be.

 

[Gurck]

I hated trillian, much prefer gaim. Anything beats the original client though