charisstoma

I don't know. ._.;;;

I won't touch it. I already have like five different IM providers and I soooo do not need another. Although, if it allows me to talk to people on my LJ... NO! BAD THOUGHTS!!!

Why do you do this to me? D8

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*laughter* Read the info. Am still confused.
I need to download a client? Is Yahoo a client but not one recognized by lj?

They promise that all your buddies on live journal with IM accounts will automatically be listed with their profile icon. So tempting.
So is saying (insert bad word here) and just throwing one's hands up in the air.

I do this because I LIKE you. *giggles* And someone had to do it.

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The TL;DR version (copypasta'd from the FAQ page): "Unfortunately, some other Instant Messaging services (such as AIM, Yahoo! IM, and Windows Live Messenger) prohibit LJ Talk users from communicating with their users. Likewise, their official clients offer no way for you to connect to LJ Talk. However, many third-party IM clients allow you to connect to multiple services at once; to see if your client supports this, refer to its documentation or help files.

This makes me unhappy. >(

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I.... missed that part. EXCREMENT. Thank you for finding it for me.

I was wandering around looking at Yahoo!IM. Wandering being the word for it. The bread crumbs were eaten by mice. Malicious giggling mice.

Plain speak; this means that Yahoo!IM doesn't work with LJ Talk. If I download one of the clients will I then be able to use the LJ Talk?

*SIGH* Think I'll regress to my crayons.

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*frustratedfrustrated*

I dunno. I use pidgin for Linux, which lets me use all my messengers on one platform - and thus, never thought to use the LJ talk. You could try meebo, which is browser-based but does the same thing (and I think, may be compatible with LJtalk/Jabber? Yeah, it is.)

Thing is, I don't have my AIM(s)/MSN/Yahoo info on my LJ, so tell me if/how/when it works and I'll give you one of them or something. Yeah, I dunno. XD

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Set up a new Yahoo sub account. I can't be on more then one account at the same time. This was what the platforms ect. were talking about huh. grrr.
You're very patient with me. Thank you.

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Can you link the accounts? that's how I set up my aol, so I can access all three of my mailboxes from one SN. Anyways, I don't know if you can sign onto multiples of the same server (like two yahoos) at the same time, but I know you can use different servers (aim, yahoo, msn) at the same time.

ACTUALLY!!!! I just tried the jabber thing on meebo and IT WORKS!!! Just choose Jabber on the menu of servers, type in "charisstoma@livejournal.com" and then your password (For your LJ) and it'll sign you on. *amazed*

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*Eyes open wide*

I now have a Gmail account too. There's going to be a group hug in here somewhere.

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alice_montrose

I use Trillian Pro. A small investment, and it allows me to use all my messenger programs through one platform.

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*smile* Thankyou. Recommendations are helpful.

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I haven't live chatted in ages, but when I did I used YM by preference, and AIM when I had to. If you like YM but don't like the name it's in, then get a new Yahoo account under whatever name you want and use that. [poke]

Some of my old chatting friends used Trillian for its multi-platform capabilities, but I vaguely remember gripes about it causing problems with other things. That was a few years ago, though, so they might've worked out the glitches by now.

I've never tried the LJ chat thing and don't particularly want to. I'm with

grimm_psyke -- last thing I need is another time sink. [laugh/flail]

Angie

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Useful. Very useful. And yes, totally agree about the time sink.
re:poke OUCH. *laughs*

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Multi-platform capabilities. Like where my new Yahoo account kicks me off the old account?
*Blows up like a little cat* hiss.
Am spoiled with keeping up multi concurrent pages.

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I've never tried multi-Yahoo at the same time, but I do multi-LJ and multi-Gmail all the time. The trick is multiple browsers. I use Firefox for my main and Flock for my secondary, although if I'd needed the secondary six months later I'd probably have tried Chrome. At any rate, if you use two different browsers, the various online systems will let you have multiple simultaneous log-ins.

Angie

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Hmmmmm. You are very very helpful.
*laughs* Yes, multi-LJ is a favorite of mine.
Chrome is Google Chrome? I have that downloaded onto my desktop.
If you hear the Internet crash and burning.. pay no attention to who the culprit is, I want to remain anonymous which *sigh* is why this whole thing came up in the first place.

Being dragged into the new century one claw scraping over concrete after another.

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Right, the Google browser. [nod] I haven't tried Chrome yet, although I probably should. When all the hoopla was going around about it, it was still very new and I'm allergic to downloading major alpha software onto my systems. Let other people fry their computers and I'll take the patched version a few months later, you know? :)

I'll try to ignore the internet crashing, though, just for you. [grin] Although if the temperature here goes up one more tick I'll have to log off anyway so I'll miss all the excitement. If you're going to do something spectacular, you've probably got about another hour or so. ;D

Angie

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*laughs* I'll try to keep the noise down if it does crash but you will need to ignore the news reports too.
Only one hour or so.. that doesn't allow much time for them to cleanup the mess I'm about to make.

Gmail account set up. YAY. Sent an e-mail to myself and it still had my full name there for god and everyone, well God would know anyway.
*snickers* I have sooooo many clones of myself out there now. *snort*

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Yay! Glad it's working. :)

Hey, I have seven LJs, LOL! Although I'll admit I've only posted in... three of them within the last year. For a while there I was using them all, though. :D Plus an IJ and four JFs. Just trying to remember all the passwords! O_O

Heh.

Have fun!

Angie, keeping an eye on the computer room thermometer

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*sends you a high tech. air cooler that sucks up heat energy only*
You might feel a tad cold if you're too close to the unit.
If only it could be true. Patent pending.

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