ICQ

ICQ

“ ICQ (“I Seek You”) is a program you can download that will let you know when friends and contacts are also online on the Internet. ICQ allows you to page them, chat with them, and initiate and participate in PC-to-PC calls, PC-to-phone and phone-to-phone calling cards calls. Like AOL’s Instant Messenger (AIM), in order to use ICQ, both parties must have downloaded the program. The free download and registration procedures are user friendly. ICQ enables you to send messages, files (single, multiple or whole directories), and URLs directly to your friends. In addition, you can initiate an IRC-style chat session or voice and video-voice connection and play games with other ICQ members that you are in touch with. Your contact is signalled of an incoming event in real time and has immediate access to it.” http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,290660,sid1

_gci212311,00.htmlA very handy tool I must say! I have mainly used msn chat, but don’t like its features anymore and I’m over the whole msn fad and poor features etc.. So I will download ICQ from http://www.icq.com/download/. The download and installation took a while..I slowly figured out how some of the features work and have added a few of other students ICQ numbers I found on the discussion page..I searched for the user ‘advanced netstudies’ and found and ICQ number of 337-293-557. I then posted a few Q.s on the discussion forum on mywebct because I couldn’t figure a few things out.

"Just wandering if anyone has understood the

 question RE:

"Add advanced netstudies to  your contact

list,(which i did),

and note whether it is authorized automatically."

I'm not sure what the authorized automatically

means. I did add it to my contact list so maybe

this is the authorization?

And also the Q. "Look at the users information

for advanced net studies and note the comment

in the 'about' section."

I could not find the about section. There is

very limited information under the advanced

netstudies ICQ details and I cant find anything

regarding an about section either..

Hope I make sense, just trying to understand

everything in my face..  

Good vibes to you all  Glen"

Students are to arrange a time for a chat session and talk about which chat programs we prefer, and what forms of chat communication are most useful. I’m looking forward to this.

Optional Task: IRC – Internet Relay Chat

I downloaded mIRC for my PC and found a strange an rather complicated program (well complicated at first glance) i jiggled around with it, found a very simple syncronistic chat on triva with a few peolpe in there answering questions. It was pretty fun, the questions were not too hard, with some clues and points for correct answers. If no-one answered then it went onto the next question in around 20sec. I even gained a ranking of 145 from 290, by being the first to answer a few correct questions..

I found Austnet but i’m unsure of how to connect to another server as asked.. I will fiddle and report back any info if I get anywhere.. I also got onto the Austnet server but was immediatly kicked of by a member somehow?

IRC is fairly featureless. Simple and down to the point. Mainly text based as far as I can tell atm. There are no fancy user friendly options and it is very plain.. I much prefer ICQ or msn as they are more colouful, and have many features and software applications. I guess the IRC program is good in a way because you are able to connect easily to different servers the world over relating to a topic of interest.