Aim to kill.
If you would have talked to me about 3 years ago and asked what program I had running all day, it would have been AIM. Then AOL kept updating it, making it more appealing, and adding more ads. The ads were always lagging my games - the car ads that popped out were the worst - and the music ones always got triggered and played horribly rendered .midi's - Jamster's early years.
At this point, I went into a phase of hunting for a better program. I was referred to deadaim by likeablerodent, but I couldn't justify paying for just a plugin. I tried Trillion, but the memory consumption on that was even higher.
I then decided to try MSN. It was good on the RAM, but no one I knew really used it, so that kind of defeated the purpose. I tried to just use voice programs - Teamspeak -, but that didn't fly to well either.
So I gave up. I didn't really talk to too many people on AIM and no one ever has commented really about my hiatus, so it wasn't a big deal. Recently -Read:for a couple weeks- I got the urge to get on AIM again when I had nothing else to do; even had a new screen name.
I only used it to talk to a few people and was confronted with it often using more than Firefox - 2.0, original Firefox was always over 80,000 mem usage. So today, when faced with a 36,000 for one conversation and an annoying Jamster Ad with 2 Rap songs and 1 country, I wanted to try again.
Enter the newest, unreleased AIM, LAIM. Currently an unadvertised alpha-test is underway, but I am already impressed. Simple, minimalistic, but still has somethings that even it's big brother lacks. All the conversations in one window, having the option to pin conversations above other windows, and an auto-save log option on top of that. Also, only has a 12,000 memory tag as well. Add 850 for each other conversation, instead of 3,000 like on the full version.
I would look into it, even if your rig has more memory than needed. Also, anyone who cares to get a hold of me on AIM, comment for the new name.
At this point, I went into a phase of hunting for a better program. I was referred to deadaim by likeablerodent, but I couldn't justify paying for just a plugin. I tried Trillion, but the memory consumption on that was even higher.
I then decided to try MSN. It was good on the RAM, but no one I knew really used it, so that kind of defeated the purpose. I tried to just use voice programs - Teamspeak -, but that didn't fly to well either.
So I gave up. I didn't really talk to too many people on AIM and no one ever has commented really about my hiatus, so it wasn't a big deal. Recently -Read:for a couple weeks- I got the urge to get on AIM again when I had nothing else to do; even had a new screen name.
I only used it to talk to a few people and was confronted with it often using more than Firefox - 2.0, original Firefox was always over 80,000 mem usage. So today, when faced with a 36,000 for one conversation and an annoying Jamster Ad with 2 Rap songs and 1 country, I wanted to try again.
Enter the newest, unreleased AIM, LAIM. Currently an unadvertised alpha-test is underway, but I am already impressed. Simple, minimalistic, but still has somethings that even it's big brother lacks. All the conversations in one window, having the option to pin conversations above other windows, and an auto-save log option on top of that. Also, only has a 12,000 memory tag as well. Add 850 for each other conversation, instead of 3,000 like on the full version.
I would look into it, even if your rig has more memory than needed. Also, anyone who cares to get a hold of me on AIM, comment for the new name.