If you’ve ever found text messaging to be too limited and wished that you could actually chat with your SMS contacts, you’re pretty likely to love this app. Available for Blackberry, Android, iOS, and Nokia phones, Whatsapp markets itself as a “cross platform mobile messaging app.”  Not too shabby, eh? It’s basically a surrogate...

The first question you’re probably going to ask is, "Why would I need to know how to create a real-time chat room?" The answer is that, believe it or not, Facebook doesn’t offer it. Yes, they do offer instant messaging style chat, but that’s only one-to-one and not one-to-many. Real-time chat is useful for those who conduct meetings...

When it comes to IRC clients in Windows, your choices are fairly slim. There’s mIRC which has been around forever and costs $20 to purchase, XChat which is free under Linux but like mIRC costs $20 for use on the Windows platform, and IceChat which works fine but looks like something out of the Windows 98 days. After that you have your “instant...

Text mode conferencing is one of the oldest forms of communications on the internet. You commonly know this as participating in a "chat room." This form of communication has lasted as long has for three very good reasons:It requires the least possible bandwidth necessary in order to do it. You don’t get any smaller in bandwidth usage than plain...

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