A recent patent application filed by Apple sheds light on a new application possibly coming soon for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Although at first glance the application looks almost exactly the same as the current Short Messaging Service (SMS) application for the iPhone, it is actually quite different. Some of the main differences would more »

An awesome VoIP client known as “fring” that was previously only available for PCs and other mobile phones has now been released for Apple’s iPhone (and iPod touch). Of course, only jailbroken iPhones will be able to run the unofficial third-party application, and its VoIP capabilities are only available over a WiFi network.

The developer of fring is labeling it as a “light, sneak preview R&D version” so it appears that they are only testing the functionality and observing the popularity of the application on jailbroken iPhones and iPod touches before the application is officially released once the iPhone 2.0 software update goes public.

I’ll admit that I rarely use Skype, compared to the other IM services out there – mainly because most of my communicating on the internet is done via text, and most of the people I know use MSN. Skype has some nice features, though. The fact that webcam video chats work from PC to Mac more »

No longer in beta, Adium 1.2 is available for public download now and has some nice improvements long time Adium users will notice and appreciate. It also has what the Adium team call “a ridiculous number of bug fixes”. Some of the new features include: An improved Adium menu item and account management features, various more »

Adium 1.2 is just around the corner, with a download available from the beta page. The team have added many improvements into the next version of the popular messaging client, specifically Bonjour improvements. Bonjour, Group Chat, XMPP, AppleScript and many minor features have been fixed and improved, resulting in a less-buggy version of the app. more »