Adium

May I recommend Adium in place of AIM for AOL Instant Messages? ...

Various expiriences with Leopard so far: It behaves very differently in our working environment at University compared to Tiger. LDAP authetification is somewhat broken, it's no longer possible to login via network accounts. Tools like NetInfo Manager are gone, it weird to look in different places for the functions. Good it's only one of four Computers I have at my...

So far, only Mail and Adium have been this way. Its not all the time with Adium, just once in a while when I type or when I copy something in from somewhere else, say textedit. ...

if you don't have another user account then i would create one from the system prefs and log in as that new user and run adium for a while and see what happens. ...

I've been having weird font problems. It rears its ugly head the most when I'm using Apple Mail and sometimes with Adium. When I try to type something, it shows up as gibberish to me (example: http://www.mydesignstreak.com/fontproblem.jpg). Funny thing is, whoever I send it to though, gets it in proper english font. I'm using Max OS10.4.10. This seems to be a recent...

I'm seeing this same problem (the lack of window focus), most especially with Firefox and Thunderbird; have also seen a hint of it (but not so consistently) with Adium. It doesn't happen when I use ctrl-arrows to go to another screen and then back, but does happen when I use command-tab. Hard to tell if it's an OS-side bug or a Mozilla bug where the applications aren't...

MS operating systems, there's Pidgin. There's even a version that installs on Windows. Pidgin also supports multiple protocols including MySpaceIM. Adium actually uses libpurple, the library that is used for Pidgin, so think of Adium as Pidgin for Mac OS X. ...

If you can plug into ethernet, you can see if that is the issue. You may want to try using Adium, an alternative MSN client that has better OS X support.

Future versions of Adium/MSN Messenger will support this, but I don't know of a way to do this currently Google Talk video works via iChat, however. (as does AIM?)

"...With Service Pack 1 for Live Communications Server 2005, Microsoft have added the ability for LCS installations to interoperate with the MSN, AOL and Yahoo! IM networks..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Communications_Server#Competition