Want to be an ex PC user, please twist my arm.

Hey Hyper! Try out Adium like MacFanBoy suggested. It works pretty well and you might get better compatibility results than with MSN and Yahoo! There is also aMSN for OS X but do try Adium first.

MacHeadCase said:

Hey Hyper! Try out Adium like MacFanBoy suggested. It works pretty well and you might get better compatibility results than with MSN and Yahoo! There is also aMSN for OS X but do try Adium first.

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Ok, I downloaded it. Pretty cool but a couple questions. My yahoo icon used to bounce and indicate when I got a new email. How do I get the Adium icon to show me when I have new emails? Secondly, is there the ability to webchat wth Adium or not?

Augh! You're asking stuff I dunno!

*Quickly runs and hides under the desk*

Seriously I thought you needed those just for chat. Someone else will have to drop in this thread and pick up the help.

The only thing I know is that you can add functionality to Adium with plugins and that's about all I know really.

Sorry I can't be of further assistance. Hope you get the help you need, Hyper!

Ok, I figured out how to get it to show me when I have email. Still wondering about webcam abilities.

You guys are great, thanks!

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Ok, I figured out how to get it to show me when I have email. Still wondering about webcam abilities.

You guys are great, thanks!

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Not yet, but it's coming to Adium soon... *edit, make sure you install Growl with Adium.

iChat can do webcam with AIM or iChat (.mac accounts).

I know you're getting there, slowly but surely, but if I can offer one peice of advice. Don't try and organise photos and music in the folders - let the application do it. Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone, who switches from Windows to Mac does this. As soon as you start trusting the software ad working with it, you'll be so much happier.

Good luck - it's great to see someone getting so much help from this forum!

Ah! Here you go, some info on how to make Adium work.

And this is for Adium video support. Hmmm. Looks like it's not quite there yet.

Maybe someone using Adium can shed some light on this...


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Oopsy! Zoolook beat me to it!

Zoolook said:

Not yet, but it's coming to Adium soon... *edit, make sure you install Growl with Adium.

iChat can do webcam with AIM or iChat (.mac accounts).

I know you're getting there, slowly but surely, but if I can offer one peice of advice. Don't try and organise photos and music in the folders - let the application do it. Everyone, and I mean absolutely everyone, who switches from Windows to Mac does this. As soon as you start trusting the software ad working with it, you'll be so much happier.

Good luck - it's great to see someone getting so much help from this forum!

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Hmm, growl. I installed it but thought it was some spybot(still thinking PC). What exactly is growl and what does it do?

Im still having issues with the way it organizes music and photos. I dont like that ALL my photos are viewable when you click on photos under library at the top. I also wish I could figure out how to hide folders, not just pics within folders. In terms of itunes, thats friggin annoying too. Lets just take the new Timbaland album for instance. Practically every track is written or sung by different people. Therefore, iTunes organizes it by author or album. Now Ive got several album art things for the same album and they arent all together(unless I list by album). But when I list by artist, they are all scattered throughout my collection. More unorganized than organized to me.

Growl is a notification app. Somehow their server seems to be down at the moment. Maybe just maintenance or I dunno... You can get this tiny bit of info at MacUpdate.