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Ichat / messages

Ichat / messages

How to delete messages history in osx iMessage

This post will show you hoe to delete the history of your chat messages in osx iMessage. firstly, you should disable chat history, this will stop all chats from being stored (but it wont delete the ones already saved) to disable chat history goto: imessage > preferences > messages untick Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years4 years ago
Ichat / messages

How to fix cannot verify login with facetime

When trying to login you get a message similar to cannot verify login with facetime or messages on osx. warning: this is quite a complex set of instructions. In the end I ended up creating a new user account on my mac and transferring my documents to the new user Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Addressbook / contacts

Send email / imessage / facetime directly from addressbook contacts

In osx mountain lion you can send imessage messages (or google chat / facebook chat if thats setup in your messages app) directly from the addressbook / contacts app open addressbook / contacts find the contact you want to message click on the ‘mobile’ or ‘phone’ or ’email’ tag next Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Ichat / messages

How to merge or show all imessage contacts in one window or contact list

This post will show you how to merge or show all imessage contacts in one window or contact list. open imessages goto preferences > general tick the box that says ‘show all contacts in one list’ you are now done :D

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years6 years ago
Addressbook / contacts

Google two factor authentication is causing problems for osx.

Google two factor authentication is causing problems for osx. if you had your google account setup in previously, you only needed one password for all apps to use now, if you have googles two factor auth, then you need to setup passwords for each app. i think its from a Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Ichat / messages

How to sync imessages between iphone ipad and mac osx

How to sync imessages between iphone ipad and mac osx Once you have setup your mac and iOS device to use the same method to send and receive iMessages then anyone who sends you an iMessage (ether to your phone number or email address) will have that message delivered to Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years5 years ago
Ichat / messages

Scroll through sent message history in imessages on osx

If you use the terminal app a lot, you will know that you can press the up arrow to get to the last command you typed to save you typing it again (it saves a load of history for you so you can pick the command that you typed ten Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 8 years8 years ago
Ichat / messages

How to show contacts list in messages app osx imessage

Imessage does not show contacts list in messages. By default when you open the imessages application it shows the sent / received window. This is ok if you are only going to send and receive to imessages contacts as you can search them from the search bar. It does get Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years6 years ago
Ichat / messages

Get mountain lion messages beta app

You can download and install the public beta version of the upcoming mountain lion messages app right now! you can get the app from here When you install Messages, it replaces iChat. But iChat services will continue to work. And Messages brings iMessage to the Mac — just like on Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Ichat / messages

Using ichat or imessage to talk to msn on osx. without jabber!

This will show you how to use ichat or imessage to talk to msn on osx, without using the jabber method. go to cocoon.drinkbrainjuice.com download and install their (beta) plugin open ichat > preferences > accounts click ‘add’ pick ‘MSN’ from the list enter your details! You now have MSN Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years6 years ago
Ichat / messages

Using ichat to talk to your yahoo messenger buddies

This will show you how to talk to your friends who use yahoo messenger using your ichat this one is pretty easy. open ichat goto preferences goto accounts hit the + in the bottom left account type: yahoo account name: username@yahoo.com open server options done. log in and talk to Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Ichat / messages

Using ichat to connect to googe talk gtalk

This will show you how to talk to your friends who use google talk / gtalk using your ichat this one is pretty easy. open ichat goto preferences goto accounts hit the + in the bottom left account type: google talk account name: username@gmail.com / username@googlemail.com open server options server: Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 9 years8 years ago
Ichat / messages

Using ichat for msn, twitter, irc, icq etc

Using ichat for msn, twitter, irc, icq etc – iChat can use jabber (xmpp). xmpp can use ‘transports’ to let you connect to other networks, like MSN, icq, irc, twitter, etc. Update: there is a way to do this now without having to resort to using a jabber service. You Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 11 years5 years ago
Ichat / messages

Facebook chat in imessages on mac osx to chat to facebook buddies

This will show you how to talk to your friends using Facebook chat in iMessages on your mac. Facebook chat uses the xmpp protocol. This means that you can connect to Facebook chat using third party chat applications. This makes Facebook chat comparable to the way you used to connect Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 11 years6 years ago
Ical

Some cool apps and features for and of your mac

Here are some cool apps and easy things to do with your mac that you might not know about: sending photos from iphoto to facebook and flickr is easy. just drag the photos into iphoto. once you have selected the ones you want to go oline just click the facebook Read more…

By Jonathan Mitchell, 12 years5 years ago
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