[Spleenharvester]

what is your favourite messenger? Mine is Windows live. Just wondering.

[Howard]

Yahoo and Skype for me.

Regards Howard

[Daveskater]

I use Windows Live Messenger. I have Skype because me and my cousin (currently in Hong Kong) used to use it quite a bit, but we randomly stopped using it I suppose.

I would post a picture of us so you'd see the family resemblance, but for fear of kathy getting hold of it I won't hehe

[Spleenharvester]

WIGH destroys any image she sees right now Is Skype good?

[Daveskater]

She does indeed mate haha

Be careful what you say though, or she'll find one of you with her magic powers and do horrible things to you! Digitally!!!

Skype's ok, it's predominantly VoIP, so you can call other Skype people for free, or you can do text chat as well, but it's fairly basic as it's not as established as MSN, AIM or Yahoo etc.

[Spleenharvester]

lol
I am used to windows live because everyone else uses it. If I try other stuff it feels weird. I use the old one though, I can't be arsed to download the latest one.

[Jason]

I use Windows Live messenger.

There is a gripe me and Josh were talking about a while back about WLM. When you double click a group name, it brings up that horrendous 'Edit Groups', which is the worse feature they could of put in WLM. It crashes my computer for a couple of seconds, and Josh said it crashes is a little, which is a complete and utter joke as Josh as one great system.

Other than that, it works fine.

If anyone as a test machine and is interested in testing BETA programs, go HERE. Not only is it a great experience, you may get something in return.

Regards Jason

[Daveskater]

(@ Spleenharvester) Fair enough, mate

I started using MSN with version 6.something after my cousin decided to get a Hotmail account and have used MSN instead of Yahoo ever since.

Which version are you using? Is it called Windows Live or is it MSN 7.5? As far as I know there's only WLM 8.0 and 8.5. No idea what mine is, probably the latest one haha

[jay_kuby]

i use windows live and yahoo messenger thinking about getting skype.


regards jay

[Chick]

I can't believe you guys would be talking behind my back about me like this. I have never ever destroyed anyones picture. Okay.. I did destroy one of Howard, then a did severe the heads of Jason and his dog Taz... but, I don't think I did more than that. Oh ya, I forgot that I did make Rik look like Elton John...but, didn't he look cool. And, Albert was toe tapping and shaking his lappie. But, that wasn't my fault... he egged me on to do that. And, last but not least Tom. I could not resist that cute little face of his. So, okay I will plead guilty of all charges.

Oh... I use Yahoo, MSN and Skype. I like Yahoo for IM and Skype for mic as it's pretty clear and MSN because I have some friends that just like that.

[Howard]

That has got to be the most amusing post I`ve seen on TST chick.

It literally had me rolling around laughing. I almost spilled my coffee.

I agree with Kathy, that Skype is very good and stable on the audio. It is a bit of a resource hog at times and the file transfer seems to be unbelievably slow.

Yahoo on the other hand, has very fast file transfers, but the audio is useless and keeps cutting out. I like the chat part of Yahoo though and that`s what I mainly use it for. Plus it gives me email alerts, which I find very handy.

Regards Howard

[Spleenharvester]

Lol, that post was brilliant

Which version are you using?

I don't know, all I know is that it's old.

[Albert Lionheart]

WIGH - I forgive you for the spoof on my teccie support role - it was too good to get upset about! Just as well that Lionheart Computers does not exist (afik)!
Personally I think you are all mad using any form of messenger - never get a minutes peace on a system. I don't and won't have anything to do with them!

EDIT - Lionheart Computers do exist and lurk in Ontario! Sheesh - check it out and hope they don't find out! http://lionheartcomputers.com/contacts.html

[Chick]

Well geeze Albert guess we will never get to chat if you don't use any IM. I couldn't live without it...it's my lifeline.

Good day.

[Albert Lionheart]

I can see IMs are useful, but maybe with my advanced years I like to take things slow and gentle! I also try and run a business from my desk so don't need the distractions!

[Chick]

I'm always slow and gentle and ready for a good chat. But can understand how it would be a distraction.

[Albert Lionheart]

So - are you in California or Canada??

[Chick]

California

[Albert Lionheart]

I asked because my Uncle Jim lives in British Columbia and his email ends in .ca - thanks for clearing up the confusion. It is the drink you know. Never been to California but know Louisville really well as used to work for UPS.
Getting off track - guess we ought to use an IM !

[Chick]

Seeeeeeeeeeeeee that's where messenger comes in handy rofl.