I have always loved iChat but now in Leopard I love it even more. Till today though I had to use Adium for my MSN contacts and gTalk contacts. That was the only way to keep my windows to a minimum. I do love Adium but I really want to be in iChat for all of my chatting. The following is what I have found to be the easiest way to get MSN buddies into iChat.
You will need a gmail account and Psi, the jabber client.
I chose gmail because it is very easy to set up in iChat and because Google has many great tools that are worth signing up for anyway.Here are my steps:
1. Get a google account.
2. To set up MSN and basically add MSN to your gTalk account follow this tutorial but only to the point where it says “That’s all.” I found the rest to be unnessasary in iChat: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-05-02-n79.html Note: I used the jabber.no server for my msn transport. I cannot tell you if it is the best choice or not (you don’t actually need a jabber.no account). You can set up other transports in this way too.
3. Now when you set up gTalk in iChat all of your MSN contacts will be there. You will have to authorise them all, and if you have heaps it is quite an experience.
That’s it! Very, very easy. I am sorry to say goodbye to Adium but I don’t need it now.
