BeAIM - Instant Messaging in Zeta

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BeAIM is based on AOL's popular Instant Messenger (AIM), and therefore lets you chat with any of AIM's about 150 million registered users. For more information, please visit: http://www.aim.com/

BeAIM - Instant Messaging in Zeta

With BeAIM you can chat with other people on the Internet in real time. There are instant-messaging services available from many different companies.

##### How to sign up

To use BeAIM you will need an user account with the AOL instant-messaging service. Fortunately, these accounts are free. An account can be open at http://www.aim.com/. You need to come up with a user name and a password. Finding a user name can be quite difficult, as lots of people have registered before you. So be creative, and concider mixing numbers and letters.

##### Starting BeAIM

Once you have registered a user name, you can start BeAIM. In the dialog box that then appears, enter your user name and password.

The buddy list

The buddy list stores all your online contacts (friends, relatives and colleagues).

If you are a new BeAIM user, and never used AIM before in Windows, Linux or MacOS, your buddy list will be empty. To communicate with someone, the other person will have to have an AIM account as well. You must know their nickname / screen name, to be able to add them to your buddy list. You can add as many people, as you want to the list, although you may want to keep your list short to make your instant-messaging communication easier to manage.

To start adding buddies, you first have to add a group to store them in:

If you know the person's nick (buddy name), you can add it directly and place him in one of your defined groups:

If you for some reason don't know the person's nick (buddy name), you can do a search by e-mail address:

If you have used BeAIM before, you might find that you've already got buddies in the list that appears. That is because BeAIM stores your buddies. You might for one reason or another loose the list, you can than import it:

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Let the chat begin!

A chat can start in two ways: By you or by somebody that wants to chat with you.

You can contact someone for a chat, or just double-click on their account name, and then type your first message.
If you want to chat with somebody currently not in your list, go to People and choose Contact User... . Type in the account name and click OK.
BeAIM displays all messages sent and received, and lets you in that way keep track of your conversation with the other person. There may be a small delay from the time you sent a message until it appears on the other person's display.

While you communicate with another person, BeAIM will display their screen name. It is possible to participate in multiple conversations at once.

##### Setting your status

As more and more people are getting broadband connections at home, people are letting their computer be online, even if they are not sitting in front of the computer or are busy working with something. You can then change your status from Available to Away, by going to Away and unmarking Available. You can your Custom Away Message... or you can have several different Away Messages... .

The BeAIM replicant in the Deskbar
The BeAIM replicant lets you Quit the application or Logout from the AIM network. From this replicant you can also edit the application's preferences or edit your profile.

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