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iChat AIM AOL Online Offline Status displayed on Website Webpage Blog Weblog

2004-03-16

When I'm on my Mac I'm always signed into iChat, which PC users will know as AIM (AOL Instant Messenger). AOL customers can communicate with with each other, iChat and AIM users.....infact, all three messenger clients can talk with each other, they all contact and communicate through the same servers at AOL. Internally (we have lots of remote workers) Ultralab (1990-2006) people are now using iChat and Skype to talk to each other to cut telephone costs now that these technologies are excellent at voice conversations across the Internet. So on the left of this blog now you'll be able to see if I'm online or offline. I could not find a decent bit of code to display my current Online/Offline status which allowed the following: Allowed me to NOT need to submit my iChat password to an external website Did not use my iChat password at all Allowed me to create my own 'Online' and 'Offline' images First I looked at Online Status . This service uses servers around the world which create code using your 'iChat/AIM/AOL' username. The generated code refers to an external to AOL server. The services offered allow you to link your own generated images, but sadly after trying 4 different server p…

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