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Like Trillian, for Mac OS X

by Volker Weber

What is Fire? It is an Multiplatform Instant Messenger client based off of freely available libraries for each "service". Currently Fire handles ICQ communication, and Yahoo! Pager communciation. All "services" are built off of gpl'd libraries, including firetalk, icqlib, msnlib, and gtkyahoo (linux libraries).

Fire looks somewhat like AIM (on Windows at least) but is much much more. It can handle similtaneous connections to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo , IRC, MSN and Jabber IM.

Disclaimer: There are few programmers working on Fire. Those programmers have jobs and spend a precious few hours a week working on Fire.app and other projects. There are certain features that are just to big for one or two people to implement by themselves. You can ask away, but there is never any guarantee. Fire.app is free, it will always be free, I have never, nor never will charge for it. Fire.app is open source. Those things being said, we can't fix every bug immediately. We write Fire for our gratification, and it pleases us greatly that others find it interesting. We get lots of Fire e-mail, and attempt to answer every single e-mail. Don't be offended if wedon't answer you though. If you really want some feature, code it up (or find a friend to code it up) and submit it. We will gladly take source code from others. Now, onto the help.

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i want use for trillian but i can't get for trillian cuz it is my computer is only MAC. but i wanted use for trillian. please thank you bye

I wrote you a note on AIM a couple of days ago, but you ignored it. Since it is a very simple question, I assumed you didn't see my post. My questions is, what systems does this work on. I have a Mac OS 9.2

I'm not really sure that I can be of any help. You may want to read this page from the top. The very first line tells it all doesn't it?

Like Trillian, for Mac OS X

Please excuse me, if I do not answer those support questions via IM. Apple may have confused you, but this X is a roman number and it stands for 10. So, if you read this as "Mac OS 10" you may understand that you are missing at least 0.8. But if you follow the "More >" link above you may also learn that it is a bit more than 0.8 you are missing.

i am wondering if you are a mac AIM user can you talk to windows AIM users?

Of course!

Hi. I was looking for a program like Trillian but for a mac and i just got an ibook. I saw Fire and checked it out. I was wondering whether you can download it or if you have to buy it. Well thanks anyway.

Is there a way to import my ICQ buddies into Fire? I tried it via "import" but I did not work.

Thanks

Anne

How do u actually GET this thing? I just got my first MAC computer, a iBook G4 osX, and on my windows computer, i used Trillian SOOOOOOn much,and now i cant live without it :-/ lol, so HOW DOO you actually GET this thing

Jeremy W.
AIM: jweiz@mac.com
ICQ: 271383979
MSN Messenger: minus13@passport.com
Trillian: webding1234
Yahoo Messenger: webding1234

You might want to look here: fire.sourceforge.net

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