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Protip: Use an XMPP/Jabber client to connect to facebook chat. Say "fuck you" to the interface.
How? In your XMPP/Jabber client of choice (Mac, use adium, others, use Pidgin). Go to add a new account, select Jabber or XMPP (could be named either or both), and use [email protected] and your password for the password.
Your facebook account name is the custom domain you have. Ex http://facebook.com/herpderp
Caffeine Will keep the screen awake for X time
Better snap tool Gives you some windows 7 type windows mgmt.
Adium multi accounts chat client
Shamelessly stolen from my comment on the post from r/pitt, which was shamelessly stolen from a post I made ages ago, but here's a little more info on IRC clients:
> To get on IRC, I very strongly recommend getting a standalone client; this has the benefit, among other things, of letting you idle in your channels by letting your client run unobtrusively in the background, so you can catch up on any conversation that happens while you were away. :)
> Pidgin is pretty great overall, supports multiple protocols simultaneously (IRC, AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, &c), and works on any operating system -- though I think Adium is a better client for Mac users. If you're a little more UNIX-inclined, I'm a big fan of irssi, a terminal-based IRC client which also works on all platforms (but is inclined, naturally, toward UNIX-based systems like Linux and Mac, though apparently there is a Windows installer too). And, if this sort of thing matters to you, Pidgin, Adium, and irssi are all free and open-source.
Yes, there are hundreds of applications in USC that will never be in the Mac App Store or Windows Store. Sometimes this is because of licensing restrictions: the App Store restricts redistribution in ways that are prohibited by the GPL. But the usual reason is that Ubuntu applications don’t run on Mac or Windows in the first place. Some do, but most don’t.
So if we restricted ourselves to applications that are available both on Windows and Ubuntu, the selection would be maybe a couple of hundred, and nobody could be bothered downloading a separate program just to see that. And if we didn’t restrict ourselves to applications that are also available on Ubuntu, we’d be putting a large amount of infrastructure effort into competing with OS vendors — on their own platforms! — for no obvious benefit.
If you want to think of better ideas for getting more users, I suggest starting with the acquisition funnel model. For each of the steps in the funnel, think: what would widen it here?
And this is a good thing! The historically fast adoption of a new OS X version has always been an advantage to the whole platform. In a few months after release the majority of the user base upgraded.
The statistics of AdiumX show only 4.9% of users are still on 10.4 Tiger: http://adium.im/sparkle/?year=2011&week=20&graph=bar#osVersion
Edit: As others have pointed out, what you're thinking of is called Messages and it's on Apple's site. My suggestion of Adium is if you'd like to use more services than AIM and Jabber, and if you don't need to use Apple's Messages protocol. Hopefully an update will add it as well.
Mac users - Adium
It's your all in one IM program that's extremely attractive and extensible. It makes me very sad whenever I see people using the MSN messenger app on their macbooks :(
Great list. I have a few things to add:
You know how to make iChat more enjoyable? Stop using it.
Sorry, probably gonna get downvoted, but in all seriousness I prefer Adium. Link included in the snark above. Collects iChat, gchat, aim, and pretty much anything else you can im with in one place. Customizable interface etc. Only downside is that I don't like their group functionality. It works but it's obnoxious.