iChat, therefore I'm Annoyed

**unlearnthetruth** · November 14th, 2002, 12:58 PM

Among my many problems with iChat, most of which are just lack of certain features (buddy groups, etc) is the fact that my mouse-overs randomly don't work, making it difficult to check away messages, etc. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Anyone else have this problem?

**themacko** · November 14th, 2002, 01:41 PM

My main beef with iChat is it's incompatability with the 'direct-connect' feature with Windows clients. I love iChat but I need to be able to send files and images to my Windows friends!! We need an update!

**adambyte** · November 14th, 2002, 10:55 PM

Yeah, I have that bug too. Let's not forget it's missing the ability to save conversations in a format other than it's own weird proprietary one.

iChat needs a little more features and bug killing. It's mostly there. Not bad for 1.0.

**Ripcord** · November 15th, 2002, 08:10 AM

Can someone explain to me what the advantages of using iChat are, instead of using AIM (or ICQ or etc)? Other than it's an Apple product?

i.e. Why would I want to use it?

Ian

**chemistry_geek** · November 15th, 2002, 11:31 AM

Originally posted by adambyte
Yeah, I have that bug too. Let's not forget it's missing the ability to save conversations in a format other than it's own weird proprietary one.

iChat needs a little more features and bug killing. It's mostly there. Not bad for 1.0.

BINGO! This is a big beef with me. I like having my information accessible in as many standard formats as I can. I always use AIM for IM chatting because I can save the conversation as HTML. I can't view my iChat conversations in Mozilla or TextEdit or any other html/text editor like I can with my AIM conversations. This is the same reason I don't use Address Book for my contact list. TextEdit is great for that; it provides just enough text formatting to make a nice fit for that purpose.

**fryke** · November 16th, 2002, 07:26 AM

Originally posted by ischorr
Can someone explain to me what the advantages of using iChat are, instead of using AIM (or ICQ or etc)? Other than it's an Apple product?

i.e. Why would I want to use it?

Ian

Well, first: It looks nice. The feature of showing connected users at the top of the list are great (although ICQ does that, too). The smoothness of the graphics is great, too.

Second: Rendezvous. Of course, this doesn't apply if you're alone in your home network, but it's great for offices and school networks.

Third: It's the most simple tool for exchanging files with another Mac OS X user in the same network. (Rendezvous again.)

Four: The simplicity of its interface.

**adambyte** · November 16th, 2002, 11:49 AM

Fifth: It has a handy menubar widget, accessible all the time, which indicates your status and who's online, without even opening the app. ( I love menu widgets )