Adium

Yes, I can connect to my MSN account with Adium. We tried Trillium and Gaim on her Win XP machine, neither managed to connect to her MSNM account. Firewalls down and all, it's very bizarre. She can connect to Google Talk however, so the Jabber protocol seems fine.

Are you trying to connect to an MSN service? If so, can you connect on your Mac with a program like Adium?

ine for years, and I can't think of anything I installed that could have possibly affected this. I know it's a problem specifically with iChat, because I've used Adium to login to the same account. What suggestions do you have for troubleshooting? ...

Hm... I use most of the time Adium but using only AIM/.mac (and jabber with internal networks while at work). And skype for phoning selected people that don't bother using AIM ...

Ill get a copy of skype and try that though. I also tried Adium but that didn't work either. ...

Granted, it's not the best but given the choice I'd actually choose Adium if I didn't need the video feature. ...

Since 2 days I own a MacbookPro and this is my first Mac ever. Today I encountered a problem, which is quite a PROBLEM to me. I have been moving all my contact information from an another computer. When I was like 95% done Address Book application stopped responding so I have "hard quit" it. After turning it back on I noticed all my cards (and groups) were GONE! The...

The approach the Adium team have taken is one that has to be applauded. Why? ...

the same method Apple does. Apple doesn't make their method available to developers, so most developers use a slightly different approach. That could explain why Adium still works. ...

At one point in time I had removed the spotlight icon from the menu bar, by taking the Search.bundle file from the Core Services folder located in System/Library/~ . The next step to removing it was to quit the process in activity monitor called SystemUIserver. This worked perfectly. I also disabled the other icons in the menu bar via system preferences, without any...