Here are three instant messaging tools that provide alternatives to the Microsoft Instant Messaging.
Indline Instant Messaging
INDLINE is a Communications Platform that allows you to communicate with anyone, anywhere and anytime in an easy and inexpensive way. Here are the main features:
Indline Instant Messaging: allows a small group using the multi video conference and voice at the same time.
- Indline Multimedia Conference / Chat Room: Designed to address the conference and interacting with hundreds or even thousands of participants. You can play video files with quality stereo audio.
- Indline Multimedia Mail: It comes with full word processing capabilities. So, it facilitates the use of letterhead or recording and the movie, voice / music on a one page email.
- Other features: Besides communication features, Indline also provides a variety of productivity features such as: Agenda, address book, Word processing, spreadsheets and also social networking features.
Lanic
Lanic comes from LAN Intercom, a tool for voice communication between computers connected to a Local Area Network. Its operation is comparable to a classic intercom.
The starting computer will be able to select the PC device where it wishes to make a connection using a list that displays all the currently connected machines on which Lanic is running. Note Lanic makes use of the TCP/IP protocol, however, it is not intended to be used as an Internet Phone, because it may crash the local and/or the remote computer.
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Lanic
TeamTalk 4 is a freeware conferencing system which allows multiple users to participate in audio and video conversations on the Internet. The TeamTalk 4 install file has both client and server applications. There is also a special client application that features accessiblity features for the visually impaired.
Here is a list of the main features:
- Real time audio and video conversations
- Public and private instant text messaging
- File sharing among group members
- High quality audio codecs with both mono and stereo
- Push-to-talk and voice activation
- Record conversations to disk
- Standalone server for both LAN and Internet environments
- Private rooms/channels for every group
- User authentication with accounts
- Accessibility for visually impaired
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