More Chat Clients

iChat is a great app. Love it, love it, love it. But iChat limits your text messaging buddies to those who have .Mac accounts, AIM accounts (AOL), or Jabber accounts. If you need to instant message a friend or business associate who uses another application (such as MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, or ICQ), what can you do? Simply download a free instant messaging application developed for Mac OS X that's compatible with the other services. Three such clients are Adium (AdiumX.com), Fire (fire.SourceForge.net), and Proteus (Defaultware.com/proteus).