Best FREE Apple Mail client? What multi-client IM program?

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I'm new to apple! What software should I use? I'm working on getting camino for browsing but I need to figure out what mail and IM client to use!! Someone help me out!

 

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also how do I auto-grid in folders?

 

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oh and whats the command that makes all the windows small so you can select which one you want.

 

[secretanchitman]

adium. pretty good IM client. basically like trillian for windows, just much better looking and its mac only!

i would stick with the default mac mail client. you can also switch to mozilla thunderbird if you want.

there are also G4/G5 optimized builds of firefox, which apparently are much faster than the original ones. grab those and test them out if you like.

congrats on your mac and good luck!

 

[igowerf]

Adium is good. I like using Thunderbird just because it's the same for both PC and Mac. I switch back and forth a lot so it's nice to have that consistency. The same goes with Firefox. The shortcut to minimize stuff is like F8 or F9. I forget exactly.

 

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anyone know if there is a way to see shared files on the network (from windows pcs) with an apple? I want to move my music to this computer.

 

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Can you move thunderbird backups from PC to mac and vice versa?

 

[n0cmonkey]

I use both Mail.app and thunderbird. You should be able to copy your thunderbird backups to the Mac. It goes in ~/Library somewhere.

Fire.app is the best multi-protocol IM client out there, but Adium is nice too.

Mac OS X has Samba built in, so you can share folders to Windows machines and access their shares.

You can minimize a single window with Command m. Command being the apple key. command tab I think lets you move between applications, and Command ` lets you switch between Windows in a single Application. I think.

EDIT: Oh, and Camino kicks the crap out of Firefox.

 

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What the heck is Samba and how do I use it?

 

[Shuxclams]

EDIT: Oh, and Camino kicks the crap out of Firefox.

Agreed...

Samba provides file and print services for Microsoft Windows clients.








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so I cant see shares without that program? Is there anything like ephpod that will let me download my music from my ipod to this ibook?

 

[LiekOMG]

Originally posted by: rnp614
so I cant see shares without that program? Is there anything like ephpod that will let me download my music from my ipod to this ibook?

Its already built into OSX. Under the finder select "connect to server" and type in 'smb://<PC's IP address here>', and then you can enter your usual windows password and access the shares.