Korean Job Discussion Forums

[keetrainchild]

I suppose that no one really uses ICQ anymore. *sighs*

[Bigfeet]

I use Digsby. It can connect to all the popular IM programs and your email accounts too. I don't use video chat though.

[keetrainchild]

[JustJohn]

Using trillian right now, mostly because I found a really slick skin for it and I hate ugly programs.

Have tried a bunch of others, miranda seemed the most promising of them.

[keetrainchild]

If you have very little memory and use Linux you could try finch. Iit's Pidgin without GTK, which basically means that it has no graphics; it runs all in text, using keyboard shortcuts. I tried it on my laptop (which has only 128MB RAM -- it runs Pidgin fine, but I'm testing all sorts of minimalistic things), and it's neat.

[juane414]

Digsby is awesome. I like the fact that it works with facebook chat, since most of the instant messaging that I do nowadays is in facebook anyway. Another program that I really like is Voxox. Its still really new, so all of the bugs aren't worked out yet, but its basically Skype + Digsby. Its got AIM, Yahoo, Facebook, MSN, ICQ, gmail, email, and VOIP. You even get your own phone number with Voxox. I don't use it currently because I still like Skype's call quality better, but I have a feeling that Voxox has great potential.

[JBomb]

for mac I use adium. Trillian is crap.

[TpaK]

Personally i like msn messeger

[dark_cly]

I use yahoo messenger, but since I have moved to korea I start to use Nate-on in Korean version. But I think Nate-on has to many pop-up advertisement.

[Ukon]

Digsby is the best since it connects to facebook and every other major chat program...does what trillain does, but better.

Nateon is awesome becuase most of your korean friends have it....it has a lot of cool feautures built in and they have an english version

[JustJohn]

Just tried digsby and was pleasantly surprised. Looks like this is the way to go for the time being.

Still a little young, so not many skins, but a surprising percentage of them are decent. Also much more polished than I thought it would be. Voxox needs a lot of work in my opinion (buggy and bloated), but skype functionality without needing to run skype in the background (the way pidgin, miranda, trillian, etc do) is a huge deal.

Digsby is supposedly working on at least some type of skype support. My vote would be digsby for now and keep an eye on voxox just in case they get their act together.

[trish91198]

[CentralCali]

Like a poster above, I'm a bit sad ICQ seems to have plummeted in popularity. Anyway, I've found that, for one reason or another (usually because of friends while I was in college) I needed to be running more than one messenger at a time. Now that I'm living in Korea and have a number of Korean friends, I'd like to be running a messenger program that they use also. I just don't know which ones go with which E-mail clients. I have the following E-mail clients and associated messengers:

Hotmail => MSN Messenger
Yahoo => Yahoo Messenger with Voice
AOL => AOL IM
Gmail => ?
Hanmail => ?

The last two, as the question marks indicate, I don't know which messenger is associated with them. I'd also like to know how to go about getting a Buddy Buddy account.

[JustJohn]

Digsby can connect to all those e-mail accounts except hanmail, and allow you to use the corresponding messengers as well.

Hanmail might be possible too, but you'd have to set something up. The others you just click add and away you go. If you want to IM with Koreans you'll have to see what ones they use. Most likely the only one they all use will be nateon.

[DJ Clae]

I like Trillian, but it seems I can't type Korean on it in the US Windows Vista. I can receive Korean but it won't send. It shows up as gibberish in the window before you even send it. What a piece of crap.