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15. Chatting Online with Windows Messenger
Windows Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger) is instant gratification for those of you impatient with email delays. Messenger lets you chat privately with other people on the internetone or several at a timeby typing live comments in a small window. This communications channel, called instant messaging, also is the idea behind AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo! Messenger, and ICQ. Unfortunately, whoever you want to chat with must use the same messaging system that you do, so if you chat with a lot of friends, it's not unusual to have two or three of these programs on your computer. In fact, the shareware program Trillian (free; www.ceruleanstudios.com) helps you run several of these at the same time.Besides chatting or even while you're chatting, you can monitor your email, exchange files, have a teleconference, make free voice calls, or work collaboratively with a whiteboard program.
Connection RequirementsTo use Windows Messenger, you need an internet connection (Chapter 12). High-speed DSL or cable connections are ideal, but chatting on 28 Kbps or 56 Kbps dial-up connection is adequate.If your connection goes directly to a cable or jack without passing through a router, you can set a Windows Firewall exception to let Messenger traffic through (see "Securing Your Computer" in Chapter 12). To connect from behind a proxy server, use the settings in Tools > Options > Connections tab. |
