New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

high fives

I use facebook messages for people if I don't have their phone number but talk to them on there. Plus it's more casual and kind of a reasonable default

mostly drunk-messaging s1ocki though

imessage is cool in that you can send anigifs

the feeling when u see the message change to green. terrible

ooh

all the ones that pretend to be more interesting than text messages have 'stickers' now :/

that animated cat sticker thing on fb is cool though, he's chill and also a cat

wait, so you guys don't just have gmail / gchat open in a browser tab all day long at work?

sure do

it was too hard to figure out how to get people not on my list onto my list and people on my list off of my list. also having unread chats show up in your inbox, terrible

hangouts is really shit at list management, this is true

am i the only person in the world using adium for gchat

last man chatting

i had all these people who had only ever emailed me once, maybe because of a craigslist ad or something, on my gchat list.... made me feel like a stranger in my own inbox

I do sometimes, it's a good client (re: adium)

also whenever two people want to chat w/ each other but they both had gchat set to 'invisible'... ah... is there anything sadder... a sadder story was never told

adium!! i think i used that on OS 9??

adium has always been OS X

burn

invisible gchatters rankle me. i think it's a power thing for them

I Was Once An Invisible GChatter... And I Will Explain Why. Story Inside

its a holdover from middle and high school days when u didnt want to be the weirdo loner dude who was on aim 24/7. dont be that guy

but then everybody is cool now w being on the internet 24/7. but habits are hard to shake

*icq "uh-oh" noise*

i set my txt message soudn to the icq uh oh sound, no joke

hey didn't you have a really cool ringtone you shared on ilx a while ago? I was trying to find that recently :/

am i the only person in the world using adium for gchat

― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, August 21, 2013 1:11 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nope, except I don't do gchat directly anymore, have my own jabber server running. Someday google will stop accepting incoming jabber messages and I won't be able to IM anyone.

I also am still on AIM with the screen name I got in 6th grade. There are people I chat with over AIM too.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9627011/Gly.m4r

thanks!

i use Adium @ home but am confined to Windows at work

i use adium

there is just one person left I still talk to on AIM (via adium / aim express) exclusively, everyone else is on gchat. I used to still use AIM for file transfers since you can't really do that over gchat, but now Dropbox is a lot more convenient

I just logged onto my hs and college aim accounts, wow... What a wasteland

Gchat >>> Hangouts, mainly b/c gchat has presence statuses.

is there good gchat client for iphone? google seems to want to push hangouts

Yeah expect Gchat and jabber support for it to vanish in favor of hangouts any day now.

I thought it was supposed to be gone already, otherwise I'd probably ignore hangouts as well

Verbs is pretty good as far as jabber/gchat-compatible apps go

one of mh's post reminds me that i did go on aim 4 chatz

i still remember my password i think

http://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/375022721169506305

phones Tuesday, all the thrill is gone these days, too many leaks from suppliers and accessory partners. at best we'll get to hear about the fingerprint reader (which, what) and maybe some nifty iOS 7 feature that they kept under NDA or didn't push to the developer builds or something.

let's talk about the tweet instead

iPhone 5C is beautifully, unapologetically plastic

beautifully, unapologetically plastic

plastic culture

sry couldn't resist

was about to say basically this:

I'm honestly really interested in seeing how much faster this phone is. I mean, has anyone been saying their iPhone 5 is slow?
by Joanna Stern 1:39 PM

But I guess the response would be that the iPhone 5 is fast enough for what it does now, but this will allow your phone to do more things.

If the 5C is $99 w/ contract, does that mean it will retail for $499 w/o?

I've discovered that the giant screen of my HTC One makes it worse for just about everything but games so I'm switching back to my 4S, I'd like to move up to a 5C or 5S at some point but they may be too expensive.

if you think the iPhone 5 is faaast then buy a 5C I guess