MSN for mac

Why is my MSN for mac always disconnect itself? At first I thought it was my dsl disconnected, then figured out nothing happened with the network connection, it was just MSN itself disconnected. What happened to it?

Also I noticed there is always some delay in typing display. Sometimes there is about half a second delay between I type in the word and the word displayed on the screen. My cousin noticed the same thing on her imac as well. Same thing happened to typing in iwork, and some other application. Does anyone noticed this? Or it is just me and my cousin have this delay problem?

 

MSN for Mac fails. Try something else like Adium, But I warn you Adium fails too.

 

Well, Messenger on both OSes are having problems lately, at least between my friends and I and across Windows and Mac OS X. But Seshan is right, MSN for Mac isn't the best, there are other IM clients out there that can do much more!

 

I ran Adium for quite some time, but unfortunately it doesn't play nice with offline messages.

I've been using aMSN for awhile now and have been very happy with it. It also supports webcam conversations where Adium does not.

 

I'm presently using messenger for mac. What is better than this and why? what are the features you don't have with messenger 4 mac that you get with others like Adium (never tried it, but it seems to be pretty popular) ? Does Adium offer the option to go directly to your hotmail mail box and see when you get new messages in there?

 

No, unfortunately Adium doesn't do that. However, Adium supports every major IM protocol so its more inter-changeable, and it has many themes so its more customizable. MSN Messenger for Mac, I find is very lacking in terms of no video chatting and stuff like that. I think the Windows version is quite good though.

 

So if you are used to Hotmail and MSN and you don't do video chating, messenger for mac is okay I guess.

 

With Adium if you have more the one MSN account you can sign in at the same time as your other one. The the only thing I like about it.

 

I wouldn't wanna use MSN or Hotmail... I'm Adium glad doesn't do more for them.. keep those weirdos off by themselves...

 

lol... (there is an expression we use in my country : dumb)

 

I use my only hotmail account all the time. >.> guess I will use msn for a bit longer.

 

I'd really suggest you try aMSN. There are even skins to make it look like the Windows MSN client.

 

MSN on Macs sucks period. I have Adium and still can't use some of the basic features.

 

I don't really want it to look like MSN on windows. I only need it to not disconnected ,and be able to send offline message

 

im pretty sure you can send and receive offline messages.
and honestly, the thing that annoys me the most is the limited file transfer speed

 

I use MSN Web Messenger. I've had less problems with it, but it's pretty much featureless. It will lie to you and tell you that you need a browser running windows, but Mac works fine.

 

Strange, I've used adium for a month now and I've had no problems with it. I've received offline messages and sent them too. Haven't tried webcam yet so I can't comment on that, but for all chat purposes, it's good.

 

Adium is usually fantastic for most chat protocols, but occaisionally MSN will cause it to stuff up. I think it's usual Microsoft behaviour, creating software which only works well on Microsoft systems. They do it on purpose, anti-competitive behavior.

 

right now only amsn supports video chat, not even msn messenger i believe, unless they had made a recent upgrade.

 

lets hope messenger 8.0 comes out soon

 

Messenger for Mac 8.0 is in beta right now and it'll finally bring audio and video chat to Mac. Sadly, it supposedly crashes like crazy right now so they probably have a ways to go before release.

One thing nice I will say about Messenger for Mac is that it definitely has a nicer/cleaner interface than the Windows version and I really appreciate that they haven't pushed ads onto Mac users. Small comforts, but if they can add video chat, audio chat, and offline messaging while keeping the clean interface, then Mac Messenger will definitely be the superior version.

 

I never got offline messages with Adium where as aMSN works perfectly for me.

 

sounds promising though

 

Exactly. I find aMSN VERY glitchy, and I personally don't like Adium for because of the format that they save old conversations in. I'm still on MSN for Mac, and I agree, it logs me out frequently.

 

A quick detour, how exactly DO you read those weird adium saved conversations? When I open it in text edit I do see all the messages but it's surrounded by a ton of unnecessary code. Is there a way to read it normally with another program?

 

Yep, just click on the person who you were talking to previously and it'll bring up all of your saved conversations that you had with them.

 

So I have problems again.
I tried aMsn,it looked nice, but I have a couple questions. So how do I use webcam along with voice? Also can I use voice chat in aMSN? I don't seem to find an option to do this. Did I miss something? Because there should be a voice option if a webcam option is available.

 

You can't use webcam on any program for msn on the mac. They only way to do it is to run a VM.

 

aMSN can use webcam, but I just couldn't find the voice option >.>
This whole MSN thing sucks.<.<

 

Wait aMSN can do web cam? I didn't know that :|

 

Yeah, that was waht they mentioned in the precious posts. It was quite good except no sound..... I guess there may be an option to turn on the sound since these two suppose to come together.

 

I'm assuming you went to the others tab in the preferences window? What are you using for your mic? Make sure you check your mic settings in the OS X preferences.

 

I think there is a built-in mic,right? So I will just use it for webcam chat as well, and my voice input is on, I will take a look at if/how I can use the voice function in aMSN tonight.

 

Yes, there is a built-in mic, so you will be able to input voice over a chat. Try going into Preferences, and look for a voice volume slider, and make sure that is all the way up. Give that a try, and see what happens/what you can find.

 

how about installing windows XP through parallels and running windows live messenger using coherence mode

 

too much of a trouble i believe.
plus, if you are unplugged it would suck up your battery really fast

 

Would u mind explaining what kind of trouble you mean? i have never used it yet, but im getting a macbook this summer, and this is wt im planning to do since i video chat alot on msn.

 

I use to do it with VMware, it's not that bad. You just have to open another app to use MSN.

 

I still couldn't find a voice option.

 

well thats because there isnt 1
amsn doesnt support voice chat

 

Skype is the best solution for Video/Voice chat. Period.

 

gmail is also decent