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The most
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| ICQ 4.0
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ICQ Lite has all the essential
features of the full version of ICQ. You can message
people, exchange files, send SMS messages, and
meet people. It also includes multilingual support,
the ability to save your chat histories, and a
typing indicator that shows when a contact is
typing you a message. In addition to familiar
features such as chat, SMS messaging, and file-transfer
capabilities, the newest version includes ICQ
Xtraz, which allow you to send personalized greeting
cards, apply custom icons to your buddies, play
online games, and customize your shortcuts panel
for one-click access to all your favorite features.
The ICQ Xtraz platform enables ICQ to present
users with a selection of new services as they
are created, without the need for you to download
a new client. Xtraz also supports the creation
of new ICQ features that can be built separately
from the core ICQ client and then delivered and
automatically updated over time. The new interface
also is clean and intuitive, so you can start
chatting quickly and easily.
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| Paltalk
5.0 |
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| The all-new PalTalk 5.0
allows you to see, hear, and share files and chat
with anyone, anywhere in the world--all for free.
Meet millions of people in existing audio and
video chat rooms, or create a videoconference of
your own to bring together other PalTalk users
with similar interests. You'll enjoy six full
video windows of your friends while communicating
in chat rooms and groups. No Webcam is required to
see people. Plus, you can share photos, files, and
messages instantly with any PalTalk user. If you
want to chat without the video and voice features,
you can always instant message and use PalTalk for
real-time text chat. PalTalk interoperates with
AOL, Yahoo, and ICQ so you can see and chat with
all your buddies using a single program. Finally,
PalTalk includes 24-hour online help. |
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| mIRC
6.16 |
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| mIRC is an Internet Relay
Chat (IRC) program for Windows. Just as you need a
browser to surf the Web, you need an IRC client to
chat. mIRC is highly configurable and perfectly
stable and has a lot of goodies hidden inside. It
offers multiserver support, full color control,
DCC-file sending and Get capabilities, aliases,
remote command- and events-handling capabilities,
scripting, place-sensitive programmable pop-up
menus, and Web and sound support. Most
importantly, to use mIRC you don't have to
understand anything of the above. Simply install
it and chat away. mIRC is shareware and can be
downloaded freely and evaluated for 30 days. If
you enjoy mIRC, please register your copy. Your
registration licenses you to use your copy and
helps support our continued work. |
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| Yahoo
Messenger 6.0 |
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| Yahoo Messenger is a free
service that allows you to see when friends come
online and send them instant messages. It also can
alert you to new e-mail in your Yahoo Mail or
Yahoo Personals account, or when you have upcoming
events recorded in Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger
offers firewall support, a standby mode that
minimizes the program until an Internet connection
is made, the ability to save and print your
conversations, and a tabbed interface that
provides quick access to your favorite stocks,
news, and sports scores. Other features include
the ability to create a chat room automatically,
stock price alerts, the ability to send messages
to friends (even if they're not online when you
are), a Quick Compact mode that hides the
Messenger tools to maximize your viewing area,
Messenger Themes, and voice chat, which allows you
to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet.
Using a Webcam, you can see who you're chatting
with or view the Webcam of any Yahoo member who
has granted you access. The latest version adds
Launchcast Radio, Yahoo Games, Yahoo Audibles, and
stealth settings. |
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| Odigo
4.0 |
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| Odigo is a cross-platform
instant messenger that allows users to connect
with users of ICQ, MSN, AOL, and Yahoo messengers.
It takes only a minute to import your buddy list
from AIM, Yahoo Messenger, or ICQ. Odigo offers
many unique, advanced, real-time communication and
navigation features, including dynamic buddy
lists, voice messaging, content channels, offline
messaging, message history archives, and
visibility filters. Odigo users can search for
other users based on common interests, age,
geographical location, zodiac sign, or even
favorite Web sites. Odigo users can also connect
with their online buddies using advanced features
such as the Popular Pages directory and the People
Finder. |
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| Trillian
0.74 |
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| Trillian is a multinetwork
chat client that currently supports mIRC, AIM,
ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger. It supports
docking, multiline edit boxes, buddy alerts,
multiple connections to the same medium, a
powerful skinning language, easy importing of your
existing contacts, skinnable emoticons, logging,
global away/invisible features, and a unified
contact list. It has a direct connection for AIM,
support for user profiles, complete type
formatting, buddy icons, proxy support,
emotisounds, encrypted instant messaging to ICQ
and AIM, AIM group chats, and shell extensions for
file transfers. Version 0.74 includes bug fixes
and other minor enhancements. |
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