Well, imagine my surprise when I awoke this morning, fired up the beast and saw that some well meaning sister in law installed the brand spanking new ICQ2000b.
I haven’t had time to check out all the bells and whistles (like I needed more) but the one annoyance was when I converted my old database… I can’t find the new database so my contact list is gone for the moment. On the bright side… I was meaning to clean things out a little anyways.
Hey, Feynn, I would appreciate hearing your further opinions on B as you get using it. I’ve been putting off upgrading until I hear a little more about it.
I’ve been using it for a while and I like it just fine. I don’t make use of most of the features, but it was fun to play with when I first installed it.
I don’t get the chance to chat too often and when I do, it’s probably not for too long, but it is nice every now and then when someone rings me up and offers sex … I MEAN … wants to chat for a little bit.
I just got ICQ 2000a and I haven’t figured out all the features on it yet. Yikes, thems a lot of buttons on there. I suppose 2000b = yet more buttons?
I do have Odigo as well, which lets you communicate with AIM, ICQ and Yahoo, and it hasn’t done anything terrible to my system. Just in case anyone is interested, when I am done scientifically evaluating* it, I shall post my notes on this board.
*meaning write down how many times it makes me cry, divided by times used, which gives the magic tatertot ratio of software usability.
I’m on the same computer that Feynn is, so obviously we’ve both updated the ICQ program.
I haven’t noticed much difference yet, but with 2000a I had a lot of problems connecting. It wouldn’t auto-configure, and it wouldn’t save my connection settings. This one isn’t having those problems.
Btw - in case anyone feels a greater need for my wit and wisdom (HA!), my ICQ# is 9038105.
Personally, I find 2000b to be a bit flaky. Message history doesn’t show complete messages. I’ve had one friend complain that occasionally my font changes from Comic Sans to Cyrllic (sp?). However it does seem to work better with my firewall’s here at work, and at home. However, it’s still worth what I paid for it.
Tater: Odigo sounds pretty cool, I’ll probably install it once I get home. One question first, though, how does it let you know which incoming message is coming from an AIM user, ICQ, etc?
Hmmm, if I’m remember correctly, at the top of the dialogue box, it will say where the person is coming from, unless they are also an Odigo survivor, in which case it says Odigo. On your contacts list, there is a little icon to the left of each name which says if they are from AIM, ICQ, Yahoo or Odigo.
All the dialogue boxes are the same for each IM system, and you do lose some of the features. For example, you can send smilies to AOL users (the basic ones) but you can’t see them on your end.
Just a warning, Coldy says Odigo messed up his computer. It works very smoothly with mine, though. Also, you never know when AOL or Yahoo is going to try and block you. But it does save a lot of system resources (right term?) as opposed to running all three at once (which I do, god help me).
