Instant messaging
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Business Computing Tips
By K&K Fainges kfainges@bigpond.net.au
On the internet, instant messaging allows you to chat with your friends and
family anywhere in the world, real time. That means at the same time with no
delays. If you have a video camera and a mic, you can even see them and hear
them. The best bit of it all is that it is free once you are online.
So which instant messenger is the best? Good question.
Just about all of them are free, and most offer the same thing. So,
personally, I use Trillian http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/.
The reason - it let's you use all the other ones at the same time and take
half the space on your system.
That way, no matter which one your friends signed up for, you can still
chat with them. It doesn't have all the wonderful features, but it does let
you message, which is the whole point really.
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Please feel free to pass it on to your friends, just let them know I wrote
it.
Karen Fainges holds a Bachelor of Business, and a Grad. Cert of Vocational
and Educational Training. All this is nice but it's the 14 years of having to
make sales or starve that makes her think she has really learnt what does and
doesn't work. A tutor for all ages, she specialises in helping people get
started on the long road to technology.
"It has to be practical, it has to be cheap, and it has to work."
