Mercury Messenger
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 Mercury Messenger 1.9 running on Mac OS X with custom views |
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| Developed by | Danny |
| Latest release | 1.9 / October 20, 2007 |
| Preview release | 2.0 Alpha 2 / May 4, 2008 |
| OS | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux |
| Available in | English, Dutch, Spanish |
| Genre | Instant messaging client |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | mercury.im |
Mercury Messenger or simply "MM" (formerly called dMSN) is an WLM based Instant Messaging client developed under Java that includes almost all the features included on Windows Live Messenger, making equal the features to Mac OS X and Linux.
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[edit] Features
[edit] Live Messenger Service
Apart from signing in on the Network (via different protocols from MSNP11 to MSNP14) , Mercury Messenger has some of the features included on WLM:
- Display Pictures
- File Transfer
- Webcam sessions
- Custom Emoticons
- Audio conversations (Very Experimental)
- Personal Messages
- "What I'm Listening to" feature
- Offline IM's
- Winks
- Nudges
- Yahoo! Messenger contacts (Experimental)
- Signing in with MSNP14
- Voice Clips
- Games (Tic-Tac-Toe only)
- Windows Live Spaces view support
[edit] Interface
Mercury has an interchangeable interface (Skins & views). Mercury includes some main Java Looks, like Metal, Mac OS X, Gtk and Substance skin.
[edit] View system
The views in Mercury are the main source of the changeable interface, it works with a HTML system and with these you can change the looks of your contact list, conversations , event pop-ups and contact cards.
[edit] Extra Features
- Growl support (Only on Mac OS X)
- Tabbed Chatting
- RSS Reader
- Custom status icons
- Proxy connection (in development)
- Connect two or more accounts at the same time
- Conversation history
- Messenger Plus! Live Colours
- Add-on system
- Multilingual
[edit] Advantage/drawback
Mercury is a Java software which can be easily ported on various operating systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD). But in some situations, it will require a larger amount of CPU power and memory (animated emoticons, resizing of "large" display picture) than the native WLM.
