[Danny252]

Originally posted by Danny252+Dec 19 2005, 12:05 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Danny252 @ Dec 19 2005, 12:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> * Unified Contacts Whats? [/b]

It's work on integrating Windows Messenger with the Adress Book, which allows for unified contact management across the system. This way contacts can be entirely cross-referenced and centralized.

Hotmail does this already, and I often know my contacts emails anyway, I I want to email them. But I thought this was an alternative to email?

Originally posted by Danny252@
* Word Wheel Sounds useless

It's also known as auto-complete, and it's useful to speed up typing names, etc.

I tend not to type names. And I'd spent longer actually selecting the autocomplete word than it would to type it.

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* Edit your contact’s Info Like...?[/quote]
Like a vCard. See "Unified Contacts" above.

Its their info, if they don't want to give out things, why put it there?I already have their email...

Originally posted by Danny252+--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Danny252)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>* !Nicknames (Rename your contacts) Oh. Yay. I can now rename contacts and forget who they are.[/b]

Or you can rename contacts with nonsensical screenames to their actual name, which makes keeping track of who you're talking to much easier.

But see, it tells me their email too. Plus most people tend to keep a part of their name the same.

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* !Offline IMs Never use it anywhere else. They invented the email for this purpose.

It's a pretty popular feature of ICQ, which has been around since, oh, 1996. I'd say it's a pretty popular feature (AIM doesn't have it because after the AOL buyout of Mirabilis the ICQ and AIM protocols were merged, so technically it does have it). It's a neat feature when you're trying to finish a conversation when someone drops offline, or if you want to leave someone a message to get in contact with you when they get online.

How about you get reliable contacts that don't do that? Plus, if I want offline messages, I dont want 60 different screens popping up as soon as I log on. i still like email.

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* !Conversations While Appearing Offline Which you'd do why?[/quote]
So that you can appear offline to everyone on your contact list and have a conversation with only a single person or two. Useful when you don't feel like having to deal with a bunch of other people messaging you or when you don't want people to know you're online (temporarily avoiding someone, etc).

Avoiding people, I block them. If I dont want people messaging me, I dont message them. If I dont want to talk to anyone at all, I don't log on.