September 24th, 2012
Glenn Fleishman for TidBITS on how to turn on Messages for your phone number on your Mac:
The Messages app in Mountain Lion can now send and receive iMessages using an iPhone’s number as the identifier with a combination of iOS 6 and the recent OS X 10.8.2 update.
Good tip.
/via James Duncan Davidson.
April 12th, 2012
There is pandemonium in the streets. Riots are breaking out. Here is Dan Moren of Macworld with more:
It’s been almost two months since Apple released the Messages beta, the revamped version of iChat slated to arrive with Mountain Lion this summer. And, thanks to a lack of subsequent updates, I and at least a few of my colleagues have jumped ship back to our pre-Messages IM clients. Those who haven’t, well, I’ve noticed they seem to spend a lot of time cursing at Messages.
I knew what I was getting into with the Messages beta when I downloaded it. I knew there would be a few bugs and that, in general, it wouldn’t be the best experience. The Apple experience. But there hasn’t been a single update to make it better and, as it stood, Messages was a terrible, terrible experience.
I’ve since attempted to roll back to iChat which is supposed to be possible since Messages comes with an uninstall routine built-into the menu. But I’ve since not been able to get iChat to work. Even after trashing every file I can possibly find related to iChat.
So, I’m using Adium – which I think is also terrible – until Mountain Lion comes. What a mess!
February 22nd, 2012
The Messages beta is now available and full-screen mode is a great way to use the application. However, you can’t see your buddy list in full-screen mode. However, there is a trick. Here is how you can see your buddy list window while in full-screen mode.