Hello, I do use adium on the mac, when i use my mac, i also use skype. I mostly
use my mac at school and in the library though so i do not use adium all that
much. Still I find it fairly accessible and I do not use its built-in voice
announcements.
Greetings, Anouk,
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From: Lynn Schneider
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2009 6:06 AM
Subject: Re: my 2 months with a mac
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,
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