Difference between revisions of "Adium Chat Client for Mac OSX"

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Figure 1

Download and install Adium
Launch Adium and add a jabber account by going File > Add Account > Jabber
Enter your JabberID = your_evergreen_login@evergreen.edu Figure 1
Enter your password = your evergreen password
Click OK. Do NOT click Register new Account
You may need to click Continue to verify the identity of evergreen.edu. You may also get a pop-up error that says Zero-Byte. No big deal, just click OK and move on

Once you've created an account you can join an existing group chat

Go File > Join Group Chat
Enter the Chat room name you'd like to join. This will be provided by your faculty.
Enter the server name. For academic programs use programs.evergreen.edu.
If the chat room is password protected you may need to enter the Chat Room password here. Note: This is NOT your evergreen password.

If this is a chatroom you will be using regularly you can save the chatroom settings.

Connect to your chatroom (use instructions above)
Go Contact > Add Group Chat Bookmark
Select a group if you like to help organize your chats
The next time you want to access that chat a shortcut will be available from your Contacts list. Just double-click to re-enter the room

Go Adium > Preferences
Choose Personal to set the icon or photo and your personal handle. By default your handle will be your first and last name

Go Contact > Add Contact
Enter the users Jabber ID (their evergreen email address)
Assign them to a group (you may want to create a new group called Evergreen and add them to that)
Click Add
A message will go out over chat requesting that the user authorize the request to be added to contacts. This is just like friending someone on Facebook.
Once the request has been authorized you will be able to see when this person is connected to chat and you will be able to see their profile picture.

Go Window > Chat Transcript Viewer
Select the chat from the left hand column you'd like to view the transcript for
To export these logs choose Print from the Chat Viewer top bar and Save as a PDF from the PDF drop down bar in the Print window

Go through all of the above instructions to verify you have configured your chat client properly
Get help from the Computer Center (360) 867-6227, or email us.
A small percentage of Comcast users may encounter issues with Comcast’s DNS servers.If you are a Comcast user and are still unable to connect:
- Connecting through a router? Try connecting directly to your modem instead and see if you are able to connect.
- If this works you can choose to do bypass your router when you need to chat or if you want to continue to use your router follow the next step to change your local DNS.
- Change your network settings to point to Google's DNS server instead of Comcast. Follow closely the instructions located here.

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 #Get help from the [http://www.evergreen.edu/computing/academiccomp/home.htm Computer Center] (360) 867-6227, or [http://rails.evergreen.edu/contact/?site=ac-computing-help&recipient=acadcomphelp&tt=true&subject=Email%20from%20the%20Academic%20Computing%20Home%20Page email us].
 #A small percentage of Comcast users may encounter issues with Comcast’s DNS servers.If you are a Comcast user and are still unable to connect:
-#*If you are connecting through a router try connecting directly to your modem instead and see if you are able to connect.
+#*Connecting through a router? Try connecting directly to your modem instead and see if you are able to connect.
-#*If this works you can choose to do this or if you want to continue to use your router follow the next step to change your local DNS.
+#*If this works you can choose to do bypass your router when you need to chat or if you want to continue to use your router follow the next step to change your local DNS.
 #*Change your network settings to point to Google's DNS server instead of Comcast. Follow closely the instructions [http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html located here].
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