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Setting up Jabber Transport in iChat

July 4th, 2005

After iChat was upgraded to iChat AV3.0, iChat now has ability to use jabber protocol. Jabber Protocol is a great thing since, first of all, it’s open source. And, it’s has a nifty feature called jabber transport which allow you to talk to any any network you like. For example you can use MSN in iChat. Yahoo, AIM, ICQ also is supported by jabber transport. However, as of now it’s impossible to use iChat to setup this feature alone. However, Micheal Rivera wrote this nice tutorial for how to do that. Here is the link http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/

Also, after you have set that up, you may want to look at a little app I wrote called growliChat. It manages to display notification when iChat buddy changes status. This app is file under cool tools in The unoffical apple weblog. Although the one on that listing was pretty archaic. http://www.tuaw.com/2005/05/04/growlichat/

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