Download/HomepageI use ICQ 98a Beta NM, where NM stands for Net Meeting. I had the ICQ 98a
Beta version of before, loved it so much that I kept checking back on the Mirabilis
homepage to find updates (hopefully FREE !). I thought I was in luck when in early May I
saw this Net Meeting version. I hoped that it would be one that interfaced with NM better
than before. Alas, apart from putting the NM icon besides the name of the ICQ buddy with
whom I was chatting in NM, I could see no real difference. Still, I didn't lose any
functionality over the previous version, so I kept it. But for those wondering, there is
really little difference between the NM and the non-NM versions.
Now onto what is great about ICQ (if you haven't heard about it by word of mouth as
yet...and if you haven't, where do you live ??). ICQ (for I Seek You) is an internet
paging/chat facility through which you can keep the tabs on your friends and family, as
well as gain the opportunity to meet other ICQ users worldwide (trust me ICQ users are
EVERYWHERE now). Once you have put someone on your ICQ Contact List, you can configure
your settings to determine whether or not you want an audible announcement of your pal
coming online, You can determine whether your pal can "see" you online or not,
you can launch an IRC-like real-time chat, launch games you both can play and a variety of
internet phone software (provided you have the software on your PC, naturally). What's
great also is the way ICQ integrates with Windows Explorer. Click on a file in Explorer
and one of the drop-down menu options is file transfer to any of the buddies on your
contact list that are online at that moment. One can also send URLs to other users with
one mouse click. In fact, you can do pretty much everything on ICQ with just a click of
the mouse.
Another feature I just added to my personal webpage, thanks to ICQ, is a way for visitors
to your web page to send you a message, from the page itself, that you receive via
ICQ...It's sort of like a brief email but with the potential for anonymity...The sender
only has to leave whatever information about himself he chooses to...What a great way to
say "Nice Homepage" without the bother of an email !
This software is easy and becomes addictive real fast! You will soon wonder how you
existed without this software before. The only downside I see, is that now with so many
people using the software, performance has slowed, and some rare nights can be spent
connecting and disconnecting. At least ICQ reconnects on its own 99% of the time.
(near impossible to get online help, as the
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