Archive for the ‘jabber’ Category

Getting GTalk working through Adium

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

Sadly there is no GTalk client for Mac OS X. So when I swapped to OS X I switched to Adium which worked great with our internal IM (jabber based), with my old MSN Messenger buddies (you dinosaurs!) and supposedly my new GTalk contacts.

Except GTalk didn’t connect at work because of firewall restrictions. The MSN Messenger connection in Adium has a handy “Connect via HTTP” option which works fine. But the GTalk options don’t have that.

Instead I found this little gem which tells you how to use port 443 (HTTPS, normally open on firewalls) and voila! GTalk now works at work.

Ain’t computers grand?

Posted in AAA, Error, OS X, adium, connection, firewall, gtalk, im, instant messenger, jabber, mac os x, msn messenger, problem | Comments

Spark - Jabber IM

Friday, August 18th, 2006

Finally found a decent replacement for Exodus in Spark, a Jabber IM.

We use Exodus as our “corporate IM” at the TSSG and while it does the job it can be a bit flaky, isn’t very pretty and overall needs some polish. Spark though, amazingly being a Java app, is clean, light, fast, feature rich and stable.

Posted in AAA, Application, Software, Spark, exodus, instant messenger, jabber, xmpp | Comments