Instant Messaging.. Other than MSN?

Dharok · 24 Nov 2008 at 19:31

I'm fed up of MSN being unreliable and am now looking for something else for the girlfriend and I to use to talk to each other.

What's most reliable, has webcam and voice support instant messaging clients out there?

Greenlizard0 · 24 Nov 2008 at 19:36

The only other one that has ready to go webcam and voice support, and is easily used across different OS' and hardware is Skype.

I think Trillian or Pidgin has webcam support, but as far as I know, only one does.

Dharok · 24 Nov 2008 at 19:40

What about Google Talk? http://www.google.com/talk/

Apparantly they now have Voice and Video chat available to use? I'm not really a fan of skype either, and will only be using it's chat feature so I guess that's kind of bloated for our needs.

chiggz · 24 Nov 2008 at 20:04

Skype prob the best alternative

Greenlizard0 · 24 Nov 2008 at 20:30

Ah forgot about googletalk. I never tried it - though it's not supposed to be that bad.

jbloggs · 24 Nov 2008 at 21:36

ooVoo

swinnie · 24 Nov 2008 at 21:39

Skype.

GoogleMail has voice and video capabilities now.

Nikumba · 24 Nov 2008 at 23:36

Try http://www.digsby.com/ I have just started to play about and seems ok

Does your email and facebok as well

Kimbie

Greenlizard0 · 24 Nov 2008 at 23:39

I like that email feature - that's pretty cool.

Can you e.g. link up google mail and institutional webmail services?

Nikumba · 25 Nov 2008 at 20:10

Greenlizard0 said:
I like that email feature - that's pretty cool.

Can you e.g. link up google mail and institutional webmail services?

Has no problem hooking up with my Gmail, ISP pop3, my works imap account

Kimbie

Greenlizard0 · 25 Nov 2008 at 22:08

Hmmm fair - does it have webcam and voice support?

edit - it appears it does!