Thinking about switching from MSN mail to Gmail; Messnger program query
Dec 29, 2012 | 12:50 pm
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Thinking about switching from MSN mail to Gmail; Messnger program query
Currently, I have MSN which I pay about $9.95 a month and I am considering to switch to Gmail. My question is does Gmail have a chat program that I can use to chat with other messenger programs such as Yahoo Messenger. I am currently using Windows Messenger and wanted to know if Google offers the same thing or similar.
Dec 31, 2012 | 7:24 am
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Dec 31, 2012 | 5:26 pm
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Dec 31, 2012 | 7:38 pm
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You can look into pidgin for a third party chat client that does jabber (google talk protocol), yahoo, msn, AIM, etc. It's a great client but as with most of these 3rd party chat clients, most of them do not do video. You end up needing to use the native clients to do video chat in general. (I'm sure some do some of the video protocols, but I've never found one that did them all.)
on the mac, I use adium.
-David
on the mac, I use adium.
-David