Annoying AIM ads
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I've got a rather annoying problem. I've got several friends that I keep in touch with via AIM. Personally, I despise the program for security reasons. Lately, AIM has had these stupid little ads playing in the program that actually play sound. This is extremely annoying when I'm sitting around listening to MP3's on my computer and coding. It wouldn't be so bad, but they play the ads every couple of minutes. It's also annoying because I tend to watch TV (using my tuner card) sometimes while I'm coding. However, I still want to be available to my friends. Is there any way to use permissions to keep a program from accessing the sound card at all? I'm running server 2000 if that helps. What do you folks think about the way that everything halfway good is being ruined by advertisements these days? You've got spam, popup ads, DHTML popups, spyware, adware, annoyware, more and more TV commercials, billboards, etc. One would think that advertising is likely to become totally ineffective at some point just because we're saturated with it. BTW, one of the things I really like about CP is that the ads haven't taken over the site like so many other places. Will
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I've got a rather annoying problem. I've got several friends that I keep in touch with via AIM. Personally, I despise the program for security reasons. Lately, AIM has had these stupid little ads playing in the program that actually play sound. This is extremely annoying when I'm sitting around listening to MP3's on my computer and coding. It wouldn't be so bad, but they play the ads every couple of minutes. It's also annoying because I tend to watch TV (using my tuner card) sometimes while I'm coding. However, I still want to be available to my friends. Is there any way to use permissions to keep a program from accessing the sound card at all? I'm running server 2000 if that helps. What do you folks think about the way that everything halfway good is being ruined by advertisements these days? You've got spam, popup ads, DHTML popups, spyware, adware, annoyware, more and more TV commercials, billboards, etc. One would think that advertising is likely to become totally ineffective at some point just because we're saturated with it. BTW, one of the things I really like about CP is that the ads haven't taken over the site like so many other places. Will
gantww wrote: I still want to be available to my friends Try Trillian[^]. It allows you to talk to people on AOL, MSN, ICQ, etc... through one client. BW CP Member Homepages
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gantww wrote: I still want to be available to my friends Try Trillian[^]. It allows you to talk to people on AOL, MSN, ICQ, etc... through one client. BW CP Member Homepages
I want to rock your gypsy soul Just like way back in the days of old Then magnificently we will float into the mystic
I think I'll try it out again. I tried it a year ago, but it felt flakey in a way. :| -- You copy and paste yourself into my brain. You always find your way back into my brain.
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I've got a rather annoying problem. I've got several friends that I keep in touch with via AIM. Personally, I despise the program for security reasons. Lately, AIM has had these stupid little ads playing in the program that actually play sound. This is extremely annoying when I'm sitting around listening to MP3's on my computer and coding. It wouldn't be so bad, but they play the ads every couple of minutes. It's also annoying because I tend to watch TV (using my tuner card) sometimes while I'm coding. However, I still want to be available to my friends. Is there any way to use permissions to keep a program from accessing the sound card at all? I'm running server 2000 if that helps. What do you folks think about the way that everything halfway good is being ruined by advertisements these days? You've got spam, popup ads, DHTML popups, spyware, adware, annoyware, more and more TV commercials, billboards, etc. One would think that advertising is likely to become totally ineffective at some point just because we're saturated with it. BTW, one of the things I really like about CP is that the ads haven't taken over the site like so many other places. Will
You could try DeadAIM[^] but its not free anymore, in fact its 4.99. I am still using the last version that was free and I don't get any ads. Other than that try Trillian or Gaim. Matt Newman If you chose to continue this discussion, I am fully prepared to make you my bitch. I invite you to ask around, and you'll find out that I'm quite capable of doing so - John Simmons on Trolls
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I think I'll try it out again. I tried it a year ago, but it felt flakey in a way. :| -- You copy and paste yourself into my brain. You always find your way back into my brain.
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: I think I'll try it out again. I tried it a year ago, but it felt flakey in a way. Its a very nice product, I have been using it for well over a year now and haven't had too many problems, I think I only had to install one patch so far. - Nick Parker
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I've got a rather annoying problem. I've got several friends that I keep in touch with via AIM. Personally, I despise the program for security reasons. Lately, AIM has had these stupid little ads playing in the program that actually play sound. This is extremely annoying when I'm sitting around listening to MP3's on my computer and coding. It wouldn't be so bad, but they play the ads every couple of minutes. It's also annoying because I tend to watch TV (using my tuner card) sometimes while I'm coding. However, I still want to be available to my friends. Is there any way to use permissions to keep a program from accessing the sound card at all? I'm running server 2000 if that helps. What do you folks think about the way that everything halfway good is being ruined by advertisements these days? You've got spam, popup ads, DHTML popups, spyware, adware, annoyware, more and more TV commercials, billboards, etc. One would think that advertising is likely to become totally ineffective at some point just because we're saturated with it. BTW, one of the things I really like about CP is that the ads haven't taken over the site like so many other places. Will
gAim ... there is a windows port but I don't use it, because Trillian is better for but linux it rox. -Steven Hicks
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I've got a rather annoying problem. I've got several friends that I keep in touch with via AIM. Personally, I despise the program for security reasons. Lately, AIM has had these stupid little ads playing in the program that actually play sound. This is extremely annoying when I'm sitting around listening to MP3's on my computer and coding. It wouldn't be so bad, but they play the ads every couple of minutes. It's also annoying because I tend to watch TV (using my tuner card) sometimes while I'm coding. However, I still want to be available to my friends. Is there any way to use permissions to keep a program from accessing the sound card at all? I'm running server 2000 if that helps. What do you folks think about the way that everything halfway good is being ruined by advertisements these days? You've got spam, popup ads, DHTML popups, spyware, adware, annoyware, more and more TV commercials, billboards, etc. One would think that advertising is likely to become totally ineffective at some point just because we're saturated with it. BTW, one of the things I really like about CP is that the ads haven't taken over the site like so many other places. Will
gantww wrote: BTW, one of the things I really like about CP is that the ads haven't taken over the site like so many other places. Agreed. :) As people have already said, Trillian or Gaim is the way to go.
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I've got a rather annoying problem. I've got several friends that I keep in touch with via AIM. Personally, I despise the program for security reasons. Lately, AIM has had these stupid little ads playing in the program that actually play sound. This is extremely annoying when I'm sitting around listening to MP3's on my computer and coding. It wouldn't be so bad, but they play the ads every couple of minutes. It's also annoying because I tend to watch TV (using my tuner card) sometimes while I'm coding. However, I still want to be available to my friends. Is there any way to use permissions to keep a program from accessing the sound card at all? I'm running server 2000 if that helps. What do you folks think about the way that everything halfway good is being ruined by advertisements these days? You've got spam, popup ads, DHTML popups, spyware, adware, annoyware, more and more TV commercials, billboards, etc. One would think that advertising is likely to become totally ineffective at some point just because we're saturated with it. BTW, one of the things I really like about CP is that the ads haven't taken over the site like so many other places. Will
http://jon8rfc.homeip.net/aim/adremoval/ I just installed this and it works very well. It doesn't even display the box for the ads anymore. Its also possible to just add ads.aim.com to your hosts flie and point it to the 127.0.0.1 address. Thanks, Steven