How to use chat in Mail

Hi,

In Mail you can go to the View Menu > Columns and chose to Chow the Chat Bubble column.

This will then show if a Buddy is On-line if you get an Email from them.

You can use the same Menu > Customise Tool Bar and put a Chat icon in the Header (Tool Bar) section of Mail
This can then be used to Connect in iChat to a Buddy that you have the Chat info on (Of course they have to be On line)

You are probably right that it easier to do it in GMail's Web page, particularly if your Buddies are not using iChat for Video and Audio Chats.

11:12 PM Thursday; August 11, 2011

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Hi,

Thanks for the Points.

At this present time I can't get my Mail in Leopard to Show me when Buddies are On Line (Mail > Preferences > Viewing even when I double check the Addresss Book and have their email and Screen Names preset. 😢

Turning the setting Off and On will remove and Add the column that would display the marker but even when actually chatting to someone and having the Mail display an email from them I can't get it to work.

Makes it difficult to test anything and make further suggestions.

7:25 PM Friday; August 12, 2011

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Hi,

Strangely Mail is not in the list

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

8:27 PM Friday; August 12, 2011

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Hi,

The iChat Page can be accessed in the iChat Menu > Provide Feedback.

I just checked and my Mail has a similar option but the feedback works differently (you don't seem to be able to make/suggests Enhancement requests)

EDIT

If you deselect the Send to Apple Box you get sent to this page

http://www.apple.com/feedback/mail.html

9:55 PM Friday; August 12, 2011

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Hi,

In Leopard my Dictionary is based on the New Oxford American Dictionary (from where I sit a complete misnomer)

The App does not offer Translations other than Japanese.

I can find no way to Add more Dictionaries in other languages.

I have not found any way to provide feedback.

Most likely there is some license agreement about using the Dictionary

9:21 PM Saturday; August 13, 2011

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bobsbarricades wrote:

:shrug: maybe they'll see this and the many discussions about it (last I searched). I think I found a way to add dictionaries, but it was only or Leopard.

You should provide feedback via

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

But getting a lot more dictionaries from Apple is not likely, they have to buy the rights. There are some modules available and ways to make them.

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2008/03/more-dictionaries-for-leopards.html

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/06/norwegian-spell-check-and-dictionaryapp.html

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2010/06/romanian-module-for-dictionaryapp.html

Hi Tiom,

Thanks for chipping in.

I am right in thinking that the Spellcheck that can be accessed in an App is not actually a link to the Dictionary app but to AppleSpell or CocoaSpell.

Can anything be done to say the International (Or Text) Pane in System Preferenes that can help ?

10:14 PM Saturday; August 13, 2011

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Ralph Johns (UK) wrote:

I am right in thinking that the Spellcheck that can be accessed in an App is not actually a link to the Dictionary app but to AppleSpell or CocoaSpell.

Yes, that is right, Dictionary.app has nothing to do with spell check. It's quite easy to add additional spell check dictionaries if you want.

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/06/extra-spell-checking-dictionaries-for.html

I'm not sure what you are asking about related to the preference panes....

Hi Tom,

I am sure my thinking on this is of the fuzzy variety. 🙂

However. In Leopard there is the International Pane which you can set the Language that your computer uses.

You can also set the Keyboard input which puts the Flag icon in the Menu bar.

You can also set Formats. (Alters things like the way the date is formatted and what weight measurements you use).

I believe that this is called Text (and Something) in Lion.

My thinks went something along the lines of:-

If I change the Language does this effect the Spellcheck Dictionary is a way that would allow me (or the Original Poster) to type in one language and spellcheck in another ?

Or if i set the format differently would this make a change ?

(I know if I change Format to the United States I can SMS to US Phone Numbers On services that provide th AIM link) from over here in iChat).

I can see that there are great flaws in this thinking and one would probably need to know what the word was in the first place.

10:55 PM Saturday; August 13, 2011

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