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Status message in the Buddy List®: Broadcast a personal message to your friends, even when you're available. Click Enter status message here… and type a message. It will appear under your screen name on their Buddy List and in your IM window. New! Thanks to beta feedback, we’ve updated this feature to only show a custom status message in your Buddy List view. Note: You'll only see the set message of users who are on your buddy list and testing with the same version. We encourage you to create a new screen name and post it in the Message Boards created for this feature so others can add it to their Buddy List to see how this feature works.
State selector menu: Do you want to set yourself as Available, Away, Mobile or invisible? Choose from the handy state drop down button. Want to go away fast? Click the yellow sticky icon and we’ll set your away message. Click it again to come back from away.
Modern design, plus more color: Check out the new sleek chrome. We’ve also added more color to the top of your Buddy List. Pick your favorite by clicking on the color wheel in the upper right corner.
Get Buddy Info: We’ve removed the blue (i) from the Buddy List. It now only appears on your buddy’s details card when you hover over their screen name. You’ll still get the orange (i) in the Buddy List to indicate something new about your buddies.
Plus: Continue to test our new TXT Message mode feature from the IM window. Don't waste your mobile phone text messages. Send them from AIM. Clicking the TXT Msg button on the IM form is just one new place you can access this mode. And, if you are having issues signing on AIM can help configure your firewall or proxy settings. Look for the Connection tab in your settings manager.
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I love the texting feature... ever since i could put a number in the user field i have and use it alot... it saves me cash and i like that!!! :)
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1. whenever I close down the app entirely, and then restart AIM...it doesn't restart. I have to redownload and reinstall AIM. Big problem.
2. AIM somehow managed to delete an entire group of my contacts. My group named "Techies" used to have around 30 contacts...now it's empty. Really not cool.
3. The buddylist dragging = cpu spike could go away.
4. Visual the new build looks gorgeous, I am very happy with it.
drop me an email if you'd like to find out more about #1 and #2 ... xxdesmus @ g-m-a-i-l.com -
The only two things I'm not thrilled with are:
1. The minimum IM window size. It was better three or four builds ago.
2. The CPU hogging bug when dragging the playlist.
Otherwise, AIM is shaping up very very nicely. The new widgets look so much better.
10/23/07 10:26 PM
any version of aim that was ever out!! i'm so glad i could go back i hated aim 6.5