A wise man once said, “Never take a knife to a gunfight.” I have made that mistake. You can here see my attempt to challenge my friend’s chat client manliness. I thought this funny enough to share. =:)
On the left, you can see the challenger, kopete, with its iChat style. And on the right, you can see Mike, using the real iChat, on a real Mac, laughing at me.
Dangit I want a Powerbook!
(psst! iChat Superiority was uploadd by: vanRijn).
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Pah. At least I can still take you on the B-Ball court, leftie. =:P
Tuesday October 18, 2005 at 4:12 pm
Actually, despite being a diehard OS X user, I abandoned iChat in favor of Adium.
It’s not quite as pretty, and it doesn’t support audio chat, which is sad, but it has tabbed chatting in a single window, it’s got a very minimalist footprint on both screen real estate and on processing power, and it supports all the major protocols. Oh, and it’s GPLed.
I’ve used a couple different clients, on a couple different platforms, and Adium is still my favorite overall.
Besides, if I really want the prettiness and vocals, I can always fire up iChat again. 
Oh my GOSH that’s COOL! DANGIT, I want a powerbook!
*calming down*
Actually, Nate, being that Adium is built on top of libgaim, and the gaim author having been hired by Google to work on supporting their Talk stuff, I wouldn’t doubt at all that Adium will benefit from this too and be able to do audio chat very soon.
Thursday October 20, 2005 at 8:58 amHmmm, I didn’t know Google hired the guy who wrote gaim.
That does sound promising, to say the least…
Thursday October 20, 2005 at 8:50 pmOh yes. And that’s pretty close to my dream job right there–getting paid to continue to develop Open Source solutions that will benefit the entire world, not just one company. =:) Color me jealous!! =:)
Thursday October 20, 2005 at 9:08 pm
I take this as public admission of defeat. You shouldn’t encourage me like that.
Tuesday October 18, 2005 at 3:45 pm