AIM on the N800
 

This is the one thing preventing me from buying the N800. Is anybody working on an AIM app for the N800?

Re: AIM on the N800
 

GAIM runs on the n800

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GAIM is a multi-protocol client that works just fine as does GizmoProject.

Re: AIM on the N800
 

Latest port is from 2005? I've heard it runs horribly.

Re: AIM on the N800
 

Then don't use it. It works fine on mine.

Re: AIM on the N800
 

Works on mine just fine except it sometimes won't quit.

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works fine for me. crashes very rarely, and i alway shut it down via the menu instead of the little x

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:rolleyes:

The fact that ' Gaim ' works and that it can be used normally ( and can be ' Quit ' from, normally ! ! ! ) is mentioned in this Forum numerous times. For some reason no one wants to search for any information regarding the various software modules that can be installed on the ITs and the issues involved therein. Most people come here just to find quick answers and are not at all willing to ' Search ' for it.

:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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I did search. I didn't find anything. Thanks for telling my what to do though. Posts like yours are always helpful. Maybe an AIM tutorial thread should be stickied?

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Arjun,
Why did you feel the need to criticize him for posting a question? Clearly four or five people felt his question was valid enough to answer it. I think most people know about the search feature. If you see a post and feel it has already been answered, then just simply don't answer it. I hardly see how your post was justified or helpful in any way. I have been a part of a lot of tech forums and inevitably someone will put forth a post just like yours and stifle new people from asking questions; making them feel like they have to do an exhaustive search before they can post something that is on their mind. Let's not do that. Just my $.02.

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I will have to agree with koolguynet on this one. If you generalize, people will be hurt. Even newbies don't want to be reminded that they are newbies too much - it makes people feel worth less and that's just plain stupid.

We are all newbies in a certain field at one time, and the thing that makes us better is people helping. If you get too much criticism in one field you just choose to go to another one - which I am sure we do not want to happen here.

I am not a frequent poster in here, but I have been following this forum from almost the time of it's start, and I generally think we have a fairly friendly and very helpful, if somewhat developer-oriented, forum. Being mostly a developer myself, this hits the sweet spot for me :-)

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I generally suggest the search simply because it can take hours if not days to get an answer sometimes. Many to most questions are already covered in the search. I do agree that sometimes people are simply to lazy to look through the pages to find their answers though.

Re: AIM on the N800
 

Instead of running gaim, if you want to use the builtin jabber client, you can join a jabber server that supports the aim procotol. I use http://jabber.belnet.be/

sign up for it in a jabber client like psi, then you can browse to the aim connector and click on it. You'll be able to im people from aim using the name AIMACCOUNT@aim.jabber.belnet.be. I'm sorry I can't give better directions, but I don't have time at the momente.

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GAIM runs perfectly for me on 770 and N800 for the most part. My only problem has been not getting the meanwhile (sametime) client to work-- AIM, MSN, Yahoo and irc all work well.

And I truly saw no problem with Arjun's posts. He's right: an easy, proper search does turn up many IM threads that answer your original question. IMO some people are being far too sensitive in this forum, looking for insults and slights that aren't really there.

I have $.02 to contribute too: let's quit assuming the worst about a poster's intent (in this case, Arjun). Some might be amazed how far that small effort goes toward constructive discourse all around.