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iChatOnLogin 1.10

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Patrick Stein

iChatOnLogin logs you into your iChat accounts (AIM/Bonjour/Jabber) when you login. Why not start iChat instead? You can, but then you have iChat.app running, which I don't want to have running while not chatting.
Its intention is to have a small application run when you log in to your account which logs your iChat accounts in.
It uses the iChat preferences for figuring out which accounts to log in.

What's New

Version 1.10:

at startup it figures out if the machine is connected to the internet and starts ichat login as soon as thats the case.

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

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Source code available here.

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iChatOnLogin User Discussion (Write a Review)

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Jolly aka Patrick (developer) commented on 03 Mar 2008

Why ?

Cause you do not have to start up iChat.app which uses a more megabytes of your system memory and still be online.

On Leopard iChat has this feature of automatically login me in, but not no Tiger.

[Version 1.08]

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Sesquipedalian replied on 22 Jun 2009

Ah, so it brings a Leopard-only feature to Tiger.

All the Tiger users should be happy about that, then. Good job.

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christoph3 commented on 16 Aug 2007

why?

[Version 1.08]

jessterday commented on 14 Sep 2006

I do not understand what one would use this for. Can someone please explain?

[Version 1.07]

Anonymous reviewed on 27 Nov 2005

A strange thing happens to me. Every time I launch the application manually it works, but not always when it starts from the startupitems. Could it be that the application starts before internet is connected? Could you in that case make a function that waits a couple of seconds, if it can't connect to the internet.

[Version 1.01]

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Riots commented on 03 May 2006

Yes I have the same problem. Don't think it is anything to do with the network, since that is already up. Must be something else that isn't ready.

Jinx.de (developer) replied on 04 Sep 2006

It seems it's a bug that some apple events are not working on startup. The program now reads in your loginwindow preferences to work around that bug.
New version is 1.04

Patrick

Anonymous reviewed on 22 Nov 2005

THIS IS THE SOLUTION, for a problem noone fixed before. Those hacky applescripts never worked for me anyway. Works on my powerbook und also on the x86 DTK . Does not work with 10.3

[Version 1.01]

+76

Schmelding commented on 20 Nov 2005

Doesn't work for me. Doesn't even launch. (OSX 10.4.3, 1.33 GHz 17" Powerbook.)

[Version 1.01]

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Anonymous commented on 22 Nov 2005

as this is a background program, you won't see a gui that "launches".

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Schmelding replied on 04 Dec 2005

I understand that it doesn't have GUI.

It is, however, supposed to launch iChat. Nope...it doesn't. Nada. Zilch. Nothing. Air. Goose eggs. Zip. 86. Ace. Zero. Nix.

Jinx.de (developer) replied on 04 Sep 2006

Send me your console.log via mail and I'll try get the problem fixed.

Patrick

Anonymous reviewed on 20 Nov 2005

Simple, yet very useful.

[Version 1.01]

Anonymous reviewed on 17 Nov 2005

so will people be able to see that you're online?? Will they be able to IM you? if not what is the purpose of signing in to AIM?

[Version 1.01]

seika7 had trouble on 24 Jun 2009

I love the concept, but it's not working for me with 10.4.11. I confirmed that it's in my System Preferences -> Accounts -> Login Items and I've restarted. I don't have an AIM account on this computer, but I want it to login to Bonjour as it did when I had iChat set to open at login.

Any ideas?

[Version 1.10]

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