iChat Pics: Application Menu

Historical Document

These pages have sat here since 2008 with no update. In that time the AIM servers have been closed down (2017) and iChat has been superseded by Messages. That effectively make this a sort of Historical Document of how it worked.

I will make attempts to renew and refresh Links to either the most current site or use the Way Back Machine Archive so that people can at least look at what was used. I will make Edit Notes on this and on those where I can find no link to replace the older one as I go through the document.

iChat Menus

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1 iChat Application Menu

02-10-2006

This is the Application Menu. (the one with the Application's name)

You use here to access the Preferences.

You can also Log On and Off, depending on what is on view, each of the services. Only one account of each of the Jabber or AIM types can be (potentially) logged in when using iChat 3. The "Switch To..." item allows you to switch between different valid AIM Screen Names or Jabber IDs. Later Versions allowed multiple logins of the same type. The Names at the "Log out Of" would change to the Screen Name

The "Provide iChat Feedback" was a link to an Apple page where you can give information to Apple include 'Wish List' stuff as it has a free text box. Obviously as AIM shut down in 2017 the link that was here to the same page has been removed.

You can of course use the Menu to Quit iChat.

Next:- File Menu.

Upward Arrow saying Top Top of page

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© 2005 Ralph Johns: Edited 24/9/2005, 5/5/2006
Updated September 2006
Updated October 2008. Reviewed and Updated to HTML 5 October 2024

Information Block

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Mostly this is kept as an Historical Document.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

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To the right you can resize or colour the page as well as choose one of three Fonts.

About This Page

Picture 1 of the Menus of iChat 3 - the Application Menu.

The place to Switch Screen Names if you have more than one AIM valid Screen Names or Jabber IDs and to log them In and Out

Compatibility

Much of this page has been altered to be as HTML 5 compatible as possible. This may cause issues with any of the Browser below.

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.

Previously confirmed to work 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) may only see a text-based page which, while not the prettiest option, is still entirely usable.