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Using AIM 6.0 to send Pics

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Note: This article was published while I was in my early 20s. I was much younger and dumber. Please don't hold it against me. One of the perils of having a 20+ year old website!
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about AIM 6.0 and how I made the switch to that from GAIM. One of the nice new (or really, improved) features of 6.0 is the Pictures feature. Up until last night I used Hello by Google to send pictures to people. It was a superior product with the ability to select a picture and chat about it, send multiple pictures at ones and view them as a slide show, among other things. Last night I tried the pictures function on AIM 6.0 and it also offers all of that, with the very nice ability to drag and drop photos right into the session.

With this change I will not be using Hello any more, and there is one real reason for it. As seems to be the problem with many Google products, even though it might be superior, Hello is lacking a user base. All of my friends use AIM. This means Google Talk is not used as often (though since its integration into GMail, I’ve been using it more); nor is Hello. I don’t have to ask my friends to go download Hello and make a screen name for it now just so I can send them pictures. I can simply open a session in AIM. More very nice work from the people at AOL to make AIM more than just an instant messaging client!

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