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Petheads on AOL Instant Messenger
Main Entry: Pethead Pronunciation: 'pet-hed Function: noun Etymology: Word created by Nancy Kucharski and sanctioned by John Schlitt Date: February, 2000 1 : a fan of Christian rock band Petra, <Look at that Pethead, buying fifty copies of "Vertical Expressions" to give to everyone he knows!> 2 : someone who spends all of his free time at The Petra Zone, <Isn't 99 posts in one day enough for that Pethead?> 3 : any die-hard fan of Petra, <Let's go wait in line for Petra concert tickets all night with the rest of the Petheads!>
Animated "Revival" icon created by Daniel Abbey - Petra I HERE'S THE LIST... these Petheads are on AOL or AOL Instant Messenger: EZBoard ID - AOL Instant Messenger IDYou can click any of the AOL IDs to add that person individually. BUT... don't go adding them one by one yet! Download this file (right-click and select "Save As" and save it to your hard drive) and import it into your AOL Instant Messenger Buddy List (open AOL Instant messenger, select "My AIM" and then "Load Buddy List..." and then browse to the file you downloaded). Enjoy!
meebo may be the next big thing in IM clients. Without requiring you to install anything, you can chat with
AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, or Jabber buddies, right within your browser. It works
great, and it's sure nice to be able to chat from work and home and a friend's house and wherever, without having
to worry about whether they've got the right client software installed or not! Groovy! (If I'm online, you can meebo me from the panel on the right.)
My favorite IM multi-client for Windows is called Miranda IM. It can handle a
million and one IM services at once (at least!), plus there are a whole bunch of user-submitted add-ons that you
can try out (weather forecast in your IM client, anyone?) These days I'm more likely to be
on meebo (see above) than Miranda, but Miranda is a great option.
I've also used a program called Trillian for
IMs... it can pretty much handle all of the major IM clients at once, just like the ones above. The only
downfall of Trillian is that the full-blown version is not free, although a very usable scaled-down
version is.
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