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Fire is the first instant messaging client for Mac OS X (previously for OPENSTEP), that can access IRC, Jabber, AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and Bonjour. All services are built off of GPL’d libraries, including firetalk, libfaim, libicq2000, libmsn, Jabber, and libyahoo2. Image File history File links Fire_icon. ...
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A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ...
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The ICQ Logo ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners America Online subsidiary. ...
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Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic Yahoo! ID which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when...
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The latest version of Fire (as of February 15th, 2006) is 1.5.6. The program is released under the GNU General Public License, February 15 is the 46th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
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History
In the early beta days of Mac OS X, Eric Peyton wanted to have an IM client which would run on this new OS. However, all of the official client vendors had not yet supported Mac OS X, so Peyton started expanding on an OPENSTEP project he had been working on, which used an open source library to connect with AIM servers. He started porting this using the new Cocoa libraries on OS X and a new IM client began to take shape. A Cocoa application being developed using Xcode. ...
Development in the early days was fast and furious and Fire was touted by Apple as one of the keystone applications on Mac OS X v10.0. Initially Peyton hosted the application and did all the development on his own equipment. He then formed the corporation "Epicware" to protect himself from the lawyers of the huge corporations he was interacting with. Mac OS X version 10. ...
The application was expanded to include the ability to talk to multiple servers. First Yahoo! Messenger and ICQ were added, followed later by IRC, MSN, and Jabber. Most recently, support for Bonjour was added. Yahoo! Messenger is a popular instant messaging client and protocol provided by Yahoo!. Yahoo! Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic Yahoo! ID which also allows access to other Yahoo! services, such as Yahoo! Mail, where users can be automatically notified when...
The ICQ Logo ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners America Online subsidiary. ...
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Bonjour, formerly Rendezvous, is Apples trade name for its implementation of the IETF Zeroconf specification framework, a computer network technology used in Apples Mac OS X from version 10. ...
In 2001, Colter Reed started contributing to the development of Fire on a regular basis and became the second major developer of Fire. They collaborated for a while using the Epicware hardware and finally decided to move the project to SourceForge to take advantage of the free hosting, download, and mirror services available there. Version 0.28.a was the first release which used the SourceForge System. This article is about the year 2001. ...
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The following is a list of instant messaging clients which utilize the Jabber / XMPP protocol. ...
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