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I hope I’m placing this in the CORRECT catagory/forum. If I’m not please move it to the correct one.
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I’m new to AIM add ins, actually I never knew there were any for AIM (basically because I prefer Yahoo! Messenger over AIM). Currently for Yahoo! Messenger I use YTunnelPro and have really liked it (except for the fact that the webmaster has basically dropped dead from the rest of society these days). Anyways onto my post regarding AIM!
I’m going to assume that DeadAIM, aiMutation and the new messenger:mate are the 3 top add ins for AIM? If I’m wrong correct me on that. I’m trying to get some opinions on the BEST add in for AIM. My friends a few weeks ago told me about DeadAIM, however it doesn’t work the most recent version of AIM and I’m not going to downgrade AIM just so I can use it so thats out! I was thinking about aiMutation then today I discovered the new and what seems to be quite popular messenger:mate for either AIM or MSN Messenger.
What I don’t understand is WHY is messenger:mate being advertised on aiMutation’s site??? Is my correct understanding of this because the creator of aiMutation wanted to move onto something big and better, but that he also wanted to keep aiMutation available for free to people who prefer to use it or what exactly is the deal with that? I’m just a tad bit confused.
If I decide to go with messenger:mate, do I use this WITH the regular AIM client or do I not need the regular AIM client anymore? Do I just use messenger:mate? Does it completely replace the regular AIM client? And I guess the same question could be asked regarding MSN Messenger, although I rarely use that program, it gets on my last freak’n nerve and NOBODY that I know even uses it! 🙂
Anyways any good suggestions for a newbie for a all around good AIM add in or replacement would be appreciated, as I really want to use the best one that is available but I would like to hear some of the opinions from users on this site (since it is all about instant messaging)!
Thanks.
I use AIMutation, it is pretty good. It has everything I need, logging, alias, clone, new smilies etc.. they are called addons not addins.
I’ve used all 3 of them and if you ask me Messenger:Mate is the best out of all of them, and M:M is advertised on AIMutations site because they have nothing against Maurizio.
Why would they? Mauizio was the original programmer behind aimutation. He is quite an artist, however I cannot give him props on the payment for his projects. I understand that programming can be quite difficult, but when something like aimutation (which is free) competes with it, obviously the teenagers with no credit card are going to use which ever has the free download.
The same situation goes for messenger:mate for MSN Messenger. I haven’t tried it since it’s early stages, but it’s very hard to compete against other addons when others are made for free, and have much more advanced features (such as Messenger Plus!).
True it is not free, but because it’s not free it’s better, M:M is a lot better then AIMutation, and the only thing that AIMutation has on M:M is the fact that its free. But if you remember at thestart AimMutation wasn’t free.
messenger mate doesnt log other peoples away messages does it? when iwent to the site i ddint download it because it didnt seem to log away messages but it did log conversations.. so my question is does it actually log away messages from others and that sorta stuff?
Yes it logs the auto-responses, away/return, although I don’t think it logs Idle but somebody is going to request that i think.
buying addons is retarded. who the hell would pay money for addons for a chat program when you can get it for free.
I vote for middle_man or aimutation. If you go middle_man, I suggest using AIM 5.5.3599 or prior…if you’re married to 5.9.xxxx, it works but, you need to do a couple things to get it to function.
middle_man hasn’t had a release in a while, but they’re very close to it. I haven’t tried out beta 3 completely (features disabled until ready for attempted-breakage), but the few I have are absolutely ROCK SOLID. Harry told me something along the lines of “we aren’t ****tin’ around this time” and boy, was he ever right!
If you aren’t feeling middle_man, go for aimutation, but keep a very close eye on middle_man so you’re around when beta 3 comes to a theater near you. I used deadaim for a short period (about 2 months) after using AIM+ religiously, until middle_man hit the scene…deadaim was driving me crazy with all its problems, being a veteran AIM plugin.
You can still legally use DeadAIM if you grab version 3.2.1, which was the last free version…some people and websites say “3.2.7 or 3.2.8 I think”, but those don’t exist no matter how much they try to make you believe it…one person just accidentally named it 3.2.8 and then everyone copied and believes that, so if you land 3.2.1, you ARE using the latest free version. Any 3.2.x version greater than 3.2.1 doesn’t exist…install it and go into your AIM directory and right click on deadaim.ocm and you’ll see the file version…it’s all 3.2.1, but far too many people don’t think to do that and blindly believe they’re on 3.2.7/3.2.8 😉
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CantTouchThis wrote:Middleman is definitely the way to go. I just use both because i like deadaim’s logs/tabs.neither middleman nor dead aim allow skinning, or work fully with 5.9 though.
well since were getting personal here i would have to say Ostego tops both middle man and deadaim with ease. with ostego i get all the features both middle man and deadaim have to offer plus the winaimp or winamp in your aim profile, ostego logs everything including every away message and profile change and you dont have to send a message to someone while they are away for it to log their away messages or profile changes. it logs them automatically… it also has all kinds of profole insert type features besides the winamp in your profile. it has everything and does everything and version 2.0 is on the brink for 5.9 and it will be by far the best FREE aim addon by far… if your add on is going to log in might as well log everything and it should do it by it self like ostego does. i like it because i can have aim on and leave for classes, come home and look at my log and see every away message that was posted by every single person on my buddy list while i was away… now i think that is pretty awsome.
I would not want every away message or profile that each of my buddies have logged. As it stands, I have about 500mb of space taken up by AIM logs, and I have not read one fifth of them. Does anyone actually have the time or actually care to read every away message or profile someone had? Given it could be useful at some time but I’d rather have the lastest profile logged and save some space. And the obsessive stalker in me doesn’t much care for reading every away message everyone in my buddy list had throught the day. But I guess different people, different needs.
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