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iChat, renamed to Messages.app on OS X Mountain Lion, is an instant messaging client built into OS X

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How to make iChat automatically reconnect?

My Internet connection breaks quite frequently. And each time iChat shows me "connection is lost" error message. I have to click "OK" and switch my status from Offline to Available. How can I make it do that automatically?
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Disable grey "is now online/offline" messages in iChat

When using iChat, grey messages saying "so-and-so is now online" and "so-and-so is now offline" are displayed in the chat window. Is there any way to suppress these messages? When they crop up too often they make it hard to read the chat messages…
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How to delete Chax from Mac OS X

How do I remove Chax? I only want iChat.
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How to consistently enable screen sharing with iChat

I am unable to consistently get screen sharing in iChat to work. When I select an online buddy, under the Buddies menu the options "Share my screen with Bob" and "Ask to Share Bob's Screen" are disabled. Sometimes starting a chat with that person…
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iChat Screen Sharing - Keyboard shortcut to switch back to my computer without messing with the mouse that is being used by the other user?

When you are watching a screen sharing session commanded by the other user, in other words, you are watching the other user doing stuff in his computer, how do I switch back to my computer without disrupting the other user by stealing the mouse to…
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Max OSX 10.9 Mavericks Messages no longer has auto screen sharing?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b905lm4AeAU In the days of iChat you could allow a user to be allowed automatic access to screen sharing. This was great because I could access my parents' machine across the internet. Now with Mavericks this…
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Integrate Lync with iChat

I am using MS Lync and I was wondering if it is possible to setup an Account in iChat (or Messages in the future) for Lync?
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How to disable iChat

In the past, I used iChat + Chax for instant messaging on my Show Leopard. Then I switched to Adium but iChat seems to be started automatically though I removed it from login items. ps ax | grep iChat 188 ?? S 1:21.91…
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Is it possible to make iChat read out loud conversations as they happen?

Lately I've been using iChat for some time and sometimes it's boring to switch windows to read the next text. Snow Leopard (and other Mac OS X versions) has a text to speech feature, but I see it only works for selected text and pressing a combo…
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Camera not working on MacBook

So I'm trying to help someone setup iChat on their MacBook for video-to-video chat, and iChat is now setup, but when we go to iChat -> Prefs -> audio/video and it says: There is no camera attached to this computer. But it's a new MacBook (he's…
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Message App show empty list on Mac OS X Catalina

I'm on a Mac OS X Catalina. I have no idea what's wrong with my Message app lately. I can send out message, I can't see list of previous messages. It's empty. I've also tried, clicked on the Sync Now button and even tried sign out, and sign back…
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iChat disconnecting AirPort connection

Whenever I open iChat in my MacBook, the WiFi connection seems to reset for some reason. I lose the connection and after 10 seconds it reconnects. Any suggestions? log file after reproducing problem: 25 18:40:55 Alex-Brands-MacBook kernel[0]:…
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Apple iChat & MobileMe & GTalk

I am signed into iChat with my Mobile Me account, Is there a way to add google talk contacts to the account and chat through iChat?
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Is there a way that Windows users can use an iChat server?

Is it possible for Windows users to connect to an iChat server? I have many windows users and a mac os x leopard server. I can't find anything I can use with iChat on the mac server. I don't want to buy Microsoft's Live Communication…
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Different buddy lists for different accounts in iChat

I have currently 4 accounts added to iChat, Standard GTalk GTalk For Google Apps Facebook Olark Facebook and Olark have their own Buddy List Group viz. Facebook and WebUser groups and thus those buddies come in a separate list, while the buddies…
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