April 18, 2007 at 21:20ICQ 6
For a long time I did not put native ICQ-clients. Agree that putting your own is stupid enough when you have Miranda (I don't take into account buggy and disgusting QIP with a bunch of garbage features). So: putting ICQ 6, you can feel nostalgia.
The English version (there is no Russian yet) does not suffer from the imposition of rambler mail - and this is perhaps the main plus of the official client. Although welcome-screen, as before, produces content from Rambler; however, sending sms is also provided by this company. (But for SMS, I still like Skype .)
Sounds have been updated: when an online contact appears, a kind of rattle is heard instead of the traditional “knock on the door”, and a voice that has already become familiar is notified when a new message arrives, but it seems that it is heard from a sewer pipe. In general, a pretty nice sound scheme is in the client by default; You can download others using the link in the settings, however, as well as the themes.
Pop-up windows tell me about status changes, which surprised me with this: they are, of course, pretty, no doubt, but when they appear, a video codec is launched, which obviously loads the computer's memory. Of course, my typewriter doesn’t care much, but there is a feeling that I won’t risk putting ICQ 6 on the home computer remaining in Kazan.
Banners are present in sufficient numbers. As always, a square hangs at the bottom of the main window, there is a wide banner in the message box at the bottom ... Finally, we managed to observe B2U - advertising logos with a link that appear to the right of some messages directly during the dialogue. It is difficult to understand whether they are contextual or not: I saw such a thing only once - when one of the contacts asked if I would go to such and such a club (an advertisement for some event appeared to the right of his message).
All sorts of subtle settings are present in the client, but I don’t really want to climb there. In general, I realized that all the unnecessary functionality that the Soviet QIP afflicted with was needed only for those who had nothing more to do but to watch those reading your status message and catch the “invisible”. The illusion of control over someone that is provided by third-party clients using the ICQ protocol is senseless and resembles a toy.
Tryam.
The English version (there is no Russian yet) does not suffer from the imposition of rambler mail - and this is perhaps the main plus of the official client. Although welcome-screen, as before, produces content from Rambler; however, sending sms is also provided by this company. (But for SMS, I still like Skype .)
Sounds have been updated: when an online contact appears, a kind of rattle is heard instead of the traditional “knock on the door”, and a voice that has already become familiar is notified when a new message arrives, but it seems that it is heard from a sewer pipe. In general, a pretty nice sound scheme is in the client by default; You can download others using the link in the settings, however, as well as the themes.
Pop-up windows tell me about status changes, which surprised me with this: they are, of course, pretty, no doubt, but when they appear, a video codec is launched, which obviously loads the computer's memory. Of course, my typewriter doesn’t care much, but there is a feeling that I won’t risk putting ICQ 6 on the home computer remaining in Kazan.
Banners are present in sufficient numbers. As always, a square hangs at the bottom of the main window, there is a wide banner in the message box at the bottom ... Finally, we managed to observe B2U - advertising logos with a link that appear to the right of some messages directly during the dialogue. It is difficult to understand whether they are contextual or not: I saw such a thing only once - when one of the contacts asked if I would go to such and such a club (an advertisement for some event appeared to the right of his message).
All sorts of subtle settings are present in the client, but I don’t really want to climb there. In general, I realized that all the unnecessary functionality that the Soviet QIP afflicted with was needed only for those who had nothing more to do but to watch those reading your status message and catch the “invisible”. The illusion of control over someone that is provided by third-party clients using the ICQ protocol is senseless and resembles a toy.
Tryam.
