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)
Extended IM functions
• Partial UPNP support (Port forwarding), this should make the file transfers for some users faster...
• Searching in the contact list (CTRL + F)
• Tray support, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD have a tray icon to minimize Mercury to.
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