Mercury - MSN client
What is Mercury ? Mercury is a Java-based MSN client.
With Mercury you can do the most of the same things as with your normal MSN messenger.
(Mercury will always try to keep up with newer features)
Basic IM functions
* Talk to friends
* Change your nickname and status
* Add a display picture (also know as avatar)
* Send files through the msn server (for people with a firewall etc..) and direct
* Away messages, auto away using idle check on Windows and Linux, auto away using screensaver check on Mac OS X
MSN specific functions
* Play games, current games: Tic Tac Toe (MSN default game), Connect4 (Mess.be game)
* Watch the webcam of your friends (Mercury auto-saves these sessions on the disk and can convert them to Quicktime movies, click here for more info)
* Allow other people to watch your webcam (= video only)
* Audio and Video conference is implemented (both sending and receiving) but still experimental, it works but has some hard requirements…
MSN7 specific functions
* Send and receive winks (sending custom winks doesn’t work yet due to new security restrictions in MSN7.x)
* Personal messages
* Showing your current song, directly using winamp on Windows, ITunes on Mac OS X and a shell command? on every OS
* Send and receive nudges
* Receive voice clips (sending is not yet supported)
Author : Mercury
Filesize : 10 MB
