Mercury Messenger
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 Mercury Messenger 1.9 running on Mac OS X with custom views |
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| Developed by | Danny |
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| Latest release | 1.9.2 / August 7, 2008 |
| Preview release | 2.0 Alpha 4c / September 7, 2008 |
| OS | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux |
| Available in | English, Dutch, Spanish |
| Type | Instant messaging client |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | mercury.im |
Mercury Messenger or simply "MM" (formerly called dMSN) is a Windows Live Messenger network Instant Messaging client developed in Java. It supports almost all of the features in Windows Live Messenger, bringing feature parity to Mac OS X and Linux.
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[edit] Features
[edit] Live Messenger Service
Apart from signing in on the Network (via different protocols from MSNP11 to MSNP14), Mercury Messenger the following features on WLM:
- Display Pictures
- File Transfer
- Webcam sessions
- Custom Emoticons
- Audio conversations (Very Experimental)
- Personal Messages
- "What I'm Listening to" feature
- Offline IM's
- Winks
- Nudges
- Yahoo! Messenger contacts (Experimental)
- Signing in with MSNP14
- Voice Clips
- Games (Tic-Tac-Toe only)
- Windows Live Spaces view support
[edit] Interface
Mercury has an interchangeable interface (skins & views). Mercury includes a default Java theme, and Metal, Mac OS X, Gtk and Substance skins.
[edit] View system
The views in Mercury are the main source of the changeable interface. The appearance of the contact list, conversations, event pop-ups and contact cards can be customized with an HTML system.
[edit] Extra Features
- Growl support (Only on Mac OS X)
- Tabbed Chatting
- RSS Reader
- Custom status icons
- Proxy connection (in development)
- Connect two or more accounts at the same time
- Conversation history
- Messenger Plus! Live Colours
- Add-on system
- Multilingual
[edit] Advantage/drawback
Mercury is a Java application which can be easily ported to various operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD). However, in some situations it will require a larger amount of CPU power and memory for animated emoticons and resizing of "large" display pictures than the native WLM.
[edit] External links
[edit] See also
- List of feed aggregators
- Comparison of feed aggregators
- Windows Live Messenger
- emesene
- aMSN
- Microsoft Messenger for Mac
- Adium
- Pidgin IM
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