What is a good proprietary chat program?

[eflat]

We all have AIM, ICQ or whatever but my house mate and I want a unique one that we can leave on all of the time and just use between ourselves.

It's going to be like a chat intercom..

 

[Quasmo]

skype?

 

[imported_yovonbishop]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
skype?

:thumbsup:

Have a good headset and internet connection though.

 

[Rubycon]

Inbit messenger

 

[erikistired]

xfire?

 

[tfinch2]

Set up a jabber server?

 

[Capt Caveman]

nvm, thought u wanted voice.

xfire is good

 

[Throckmorton]

What's wrong with just using AIM?

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
What's wrong with just using AIM?

Because we all have AIM accounts and do not want other people bugging us.

 

[BoomerD]

mIRC?

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: fisher
xfire?

needs to be available for windows and osx

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
mIRC?

yeah that is what i am thinking it would be nice to find one that is just really really simple though.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: eflatmajor

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
What's wrong with just using AIM?

Because we all have AIM accounts and do not want other people bugging us.

Use a different screen name.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: eflatmajor

Originally posted by: BoomerD
mIRC?

yeah that is what i am thinking it would be nice to find one that is just really really simple though.

use xchat, much simpler interface than mIRC. start a private room.

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: eflatmajor

Originally posted by: BoomerD
mIRC?

yeah that is what i am thinking it would be nice to find one that is just really really simple though.

use xchat, much simpler interface than mIRC. start a private room.

yeah it is kind of ugly though

 

[mugs]

I've used CryptChat before, not sure if they have an OS X version though.

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: eflatmajor

Originally posted by: BoomerD
mIRC?

yeah that is what i am thinking it would be nice to find one that is just really really simple though.

jeez none of these are for osx

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: eflatmajor

Originally posted by: eflatmajor

Originally posted by: BoomerD
mIRC?

yeah that is what i am thinking it would be nice to find one that is just really really simple though.

jeez none of these are for osx

jeez, you didn't specify osX until after some of the suggestions were made.

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: eflatmajor

Originally posted by: eflatmajor

Originally posted by: BoomerD
mIRC?

yeah that is what i am thinking it would be nice to find one that is just really really simple though.

jeez none of these are for osx

jeez, you didn't specify osX until after some of the suggestions were made.

i know i just didn't expect it to be an issue.

 

[yelo333]

It's not being developed anymore (just bugfix releases), but BitWise IM is very nice:

http://bitwiseim.com/

It's got a cool whiteboard feature. It also uses direct connections, so things should be super fast for LAN usage.

 

[Safeway]

pidgin

 

[eflat]

Originally posted by: yelo333
It's not being developed anymore (just bugfix releases), but BitWise IM is very nice:

http://bitwiseim.com/

It's got a cool whiteboard feature. It also uses direct connections, so things should be super fast for LAN usage.

This looks cool.

 

[Q]

Originally posted by: yovonbishop

Originally posted by: Quasmo
skype?

:thumbsup:

Have a good headset and internet connection though.

Skype is the best, I'd definitely recommend it. I am on it all day long, just sits in my taskbar in case anyone wants to chat. I really like it.

Only gripe is that if you login to your account on another PC, it doesn't save you contact list. But I agree with yovon, have a good headset in case you want to voice chat.

 

[Ika]

Adium?

 

[Codewiz]

Waste

Great program and secure