Hi there, what sort of difficulties is adium presenting for you? This might just be a learning curve thing, and perhaps we can help you sort it out.
Msn for mac wasn't a pleasant experience for me:). On 2009-10-31, at 1:06 AM, Lynn Schneider wrote: > Hi. You said something that caught my attention and I'm hoping you > can explain further. I have been using my iMac now for a little > over a month. I'm not sure if I would call myself a switcher, since > I still think Windows has a lot of value for me, but the one thing I > do miss is not being able to talk with my MSN Messenger friends. > People have recommended Adium, but I have not had much luck getting > it to work. Did you say you use MSN Messenger on your Mac? I > didn't know this was possible? If you could explain, I would be > ever so grateful, as I really miss chatting on MSN Messenger and > there are friends that I haven't been able to talk to since > switching to the Mac. > > > On Oct 21, 2009, at 1:05 AM, a radix wrote: > >> Hello, I have been using my mac for about 2 months now especially >> at school although at home I still often use my pc and I will >> explain below why. In general my experiences with the mac have >> been very positive especially after installing snow leopard. I can >> use skype and msn just as well as on my pc. And after I dumped >> itunes and started using vlc instead watching movies and listening >> to music became a breeze. I recently bought apples office suite >> because I prefer that over using textedit or the free text editors/ >> office suits that are available. I am also intending to go and use >> garage band in the future if I can get that working with my yamaha >> keyboard. I like the built-in speakers and sound quality alhtough >> listening through its sound output with my own in ear monitors is >> nothing special. I still find using the internet on the mac a bit >> mor ework then i did while using my pc and it goes a bit slower >> also when reading docucments i notice that I cannot endlessly use >> the right thumb key on my braille display to continue reading, >> eventually i have to press the right arrow on my normal keyboard if >> I want to read onm. This does become irritating after a while if >> you need to read long documents. >> At home I still mostly use my windows pc although i now have gotten >> mail working on the mac as well because 1. I use omnipage pro 16 >> under windows to scan my books for school, while I know that there >> are some scanning solutions for the mac that i will probbably try >> once the hp drivers for sl have been released I just dont know if >> they will be as good and easy as using omnipage pro 16 and am a bit >> hesistant to try it because of that (I really really hope that a >> full version of finereader will eventually be released for the mac >> since I have heard it can rival omnipage pro). >> Secondly there is filesharing, i will be brief. Ftp does work on >> the mac with transmit which I rather like although I have not >> registered it yet, questions i asked its support team went >> unanswered. Usenet also works but udner windows I preferred to use >> other programs which are not available on the mac. >> The third point is playing games which I do a lot on the pec >> especially interactive fiction and muds. There is an interpreter >> for interactive fiction called zoom which I tried and although I >> can open games with it saved games were a problem for me since I >> could not open a saved game file (made in frotz). >> For muds the situation on the mac is not so good, I play them all >> the time on windows but there is only one mudclient that I know of >> which works under sl and which is still being developed, jamochamud >> which works under java. It is not too accessible at the moment but >> the programmer has promised to look at it, still it does not offer >> all the features even then that I am used to on a windows client. >> As soon as windows 7 becomes officially available I am planning to >> install it on my mac (probbably via bootcamp) so that I at least >> can use my mac all the time even if I need to use windows, >> hopefully for the scanning and downloading tasks I will in the >> future be able to use the mac and I have hopes for muds as well but >> for now at least my mac is mostly used at school and in the library. >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
