aliquis Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 I spammed this in another forum so better do it here aswell, I think it's rather nice and it runs on OS X so why not =P Yesterday (or well, yesteryesterday now actually) was the first time I found out about this IM-client while checking out Wikipedias Comparision of instant messaging clients, I downloaded a few but this one was the most interesting. Qnext of course have a webpage with a blog and also of course a download section but it's down atm because they are releasing version 3.0 real soon now. Anyway if you want to get it now you can do that from here: http://downloads2.qnext.com/QnextSetup.exe So what is it and why should you get it? Well to begin with it's an IM client of it's own, which supports encryption and so on. Do we need another IM client and system? I guess not. Secondly it also supports Messenger, ICQ, AIM and Yahoo, and starting with 3.0 also Jabber, so far nothing new. Third it's free (as in beer) and runs on Windows, OS X and Linux. The more interesting functionality is this: Qnext let you start a voip or video conference with your friends. Qnext makes it very easy to share your photos (from say your digital camera) with your friends with no resizing, uploading or anything of that kind required. Qnext let you share your entire music collection so others can connect to it and enjoy your music. Qnext also does filesharing. For each share you can specify access by either users, friends or everyone. It also have an IRC plugin, and it seems like they are working on e-mail support (I haven't noticed anything about e-mails atm.) Of course it also have some issues, such as IRC client only supports one server at the time and no SSL, filesharing with other protocols isn't implemented yet (will be in 3.0) and neither is webcam or voip support. But IMHO the benefits outweight the bad things a lot. Also I like that the product manager looks young (see blog) and that the webpage got a rather geeky feeling over it. You can find a manual here which among other things cover how to setup your router/firewall. There is also a forum available. I've put up some screenshots for you to look at if interested. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40296-tried-qnext-im-client/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 wheres the mac versions, you posted a windows exe? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40296-tried-qnext-im-client/#findComment-287683 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 I spammed this in another forum so better do it here aswell, Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40296-tried-qnext-im-client/#findComment-287703 Share on other sites More sharing options...
my1stmacisaHACK Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 does it support yahoo rooms? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40296-tried-qnext-im-client/#findComment-287864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aliquis Posted January 29, 2007 Author Share Posted January 29, 2007 (edited) wheres the mac versions, you posted a windows exe?Sorry, took the same post Also I had no idea but the screenshot had the filename so here it is: http://downloads2.qnext.com/qnextsetup.dmg But might be better to wait for 3.0 anyway. does it support yahoo rooms?I think atm support for anything except regular IM with the other clients or more or less totally lacking, so I guess not.I use IRC for my group chats anyway, also I hate the "auto invite" in messenger. I've tried photo, music and filesharing, all works nice. Photosharing makes a small album with thumbnails, slideshows and download links. Musicsharing makes a iTunes-wannabe-mp3-player. Filesharing looks a little like flash fxp, two windows one local and one remote and a queue list at the bottom. Games worked nice aswell and for all shares you can use IRC (whatever server and channel) or group chat to let all people who are using the same thing discuss it. It's not perfect but what client is? I think it's very nice anyway, and very innovative and "fresh". Edit: Now when I think about it I think the plan was to allow group chat even between systems, so you could drag people from various protocols into the same chat, don't ask me if they will see each others text or not thought. Afaik photosharing and similair will use a integrated webserver or something later which let anyone who got a browser watch your photos instead of requireing them to have qnext themself. Edited January 29, 2007 by aliquis Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40296-tried-qnext-im-client/#findComment-288130 Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 calling your own post SPAM, isn't a great idea. it might give people the wrong idea, and, it did. you seem enthused about an Application that appears to have a OS X port. great. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/40296-tried-qnext-im-client/#findComment-288830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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