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September 13, 2007

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Colloquy IRC for your Mac and your iPhone

Posted Sep. 13, ’07, 7:12 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

Colloquy Long before there was AIM and other instant messengers, the way to talk with your friends online in real time was to use chat and more specifically, IRC. At the time, Ircle was the way do it up. It got a bit long in the tooth. There’s been a mini resurgence of IRC use in some circles, and being that I want to be popular, I had to find a new client to join the crowd. Colloquy fit the bill. It’s open-source, free, feature-filled, and has a great modern interface.

On Tuesday, version 2.1 was released. It has more than its fair share of bug fixes (it’s a really long list that overloaded the clipboard or I would have so pasted it into the text of this post). Now, I’ve been hearing whispers of accessing IRC on the iPhone through this software, but until this release, that component wasn’t included. It is now. You have to admit that it’s pretty nostalgic to chat that way.


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