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02 Accounts Preferences

Oct 2008

2 Accounts Preferences

This is the iChat 3 Accounts Section of the Preferences.

At this point in iChat Apple have decided to call Screen Names "Accounts"

If you have done the Start Up Screens and entered an AIM (or Apple) name and enable Bonjour and Enabled a Jabber ID you will have three items in the new list on the left. (AIM is the Running Man, Apple IDs, the Blue Globe, Jabber gets the lightbulb and Bonjour the white and orange symbol). The Plus sign at the bottom of the list is used to enter New Screen Name. If you have set None then only Bonjour will show but it will not be ticked (not active)

Highlighting a current one and using the minus button will delete an Account/Screen name.

In iChat 3 some items that were in the iChat 1 and 2 Privacy Preferences Pane have been moved to this one by using Tabs. The Account Info tab shows a better representation of the Name and Password as well as now giving you choice to Describe it (such as the "Second Version" item in the list on the left of the Picture). The list to the left is the only place in iChat 3 that you see it but it will make a difference in iChat 4.

Highlighting a name on the left will show you the tabs it has and any info on the right. A Bonjour account will only show the Account Info tab. A Jabber one has no Privacy tab.

Above the details themselves is control over whether you can log in the name more than once (different applications that can log into AIM or different computers).

You also now have to Specifically say whether a Screen Name will login at iChat Start. If you have more than one AIM valid name the one that is logged in currently will have the Use This Account option selected.

What was Privacy in iChat 1 and 2 is now in the Security tab. It has the same iChat 2 options to Allow All, Allow Buddy List Only, Allow Specific People with a button access to a list, Block All and Block Specific People with another button to access that list. Any Jabber ID that you have and click on will not have the Security tab

The Server Settings button as it was in iChat 1 and 2 has also beome a tab. In here it still allows a change of the Server Name even though another is not currently available and to change the Login port. The default is 5190 using the TCP Protocol (not stated on this pane). Change this port top 443 if having Login Issues.

The Server Settings become important if using a Googlemail ID as a Jabber ID via GoogleTalk. When you set up a Jabber ID here iChat will presume the @whatever.com ending to your ID is the basis of the Server's Name so it will create a Server entry for googlemail.com. This needs to be changed to "talk.google.com" in the Server Settings tab. A link to a pages of pictures on the Google site has been removed as it no longer works.

The next Pane is Messages one

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 ©  Ralph Johns. Created October 2008

Created October, 2008
Major Update/Edit October 2024. Moving towards HTML Compliance.

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This site is about iChat from Version 1 through to iChat 5.x.x
Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document. Some small tense changes have been made but the content is by and large untouched.

It has a mixture of basic info and problem solving help.

The sections below will change for Specifics about info on the page on view

About This Page

Add or delete Account/Screen Names. State whether the Account Logs in at iChat Start and if you have two computers using the same Account/Screen Name whether you allow Multiple Logins of the same name. (Also applies to Web based logins).

In AIM valid names state who can see you as On-line or Block people in the Privcay tab

Change the server ports and sometime Name in the Server Settings tab, important when using a Google Mial ID with the GoogleTalk server

Compatibility

As mentioned above this has had a major Edit/Update in September 2024 moving towards being fully HTML 5 compliant meaning that the Browsers listed below are likely to no longer work.

I have tested in Safari 18.1, Firefox 130.x and 131.0, Vivaldi 6.9.3447.48 and iCab 6.2.3 (All Mac Browsers) I don't have access to a PC let alone multiple browsers to test on.

The original pages worked with Win/IE 5.5 and later (should work in 5.0, but not confirmed), Firefox 2, Safari 3, Opera 9, iCab 3.02 and later, Mac/IE 5, Netscape 6 and later

Old browsers (IE version 4 or earlier, Netscape 4 or earlier) should/may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.

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