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iChat
is an AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), ICQ, .Mac, Google Talk and Jabber client by
Apple Computer for their Mac OS X operating system. Using a Jabber-like
protocol and Bonjour for user discovery, it also allows for LAN communication.
iChat's AIM support is fully endorsed by AOL, and uses their official
implementation of the AIM OSCAR protocol. Using a Jabber transport, iChat
users may also integrate their MSN and Yahoo! contacts into the Jabber pane.
It bears a brushed metal interface (as of Mac OS 10.4) and uses speech bubbles
and pictures that are meant to personify the online chatting experience. With
iChat, green (available), yellow (idle), and red (away) dots can be seen next
to the name of each connected user on the buddy list. To cater for colour-blind
users, this can be altered to show different shapes to illustrate status
rather than colour.
Click
here to download iChat
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