Prattle 0.3 review
DownloadPrattle allows you to control Adium from your mobile phone.
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Prattle allows you to control Adium from your mobile phone. It allows you to sit on your couch, and receive and answers messages through Adium.
To do this, you need to install a plug-in (that comes with Prattle) into Adium. This plug-in starts a Prattle Bluetooth server when Adium starts automatically. Once Adium is running, you connect the Prattle program, on your mobile, to your computer.
Limitations:
No incoming file notification.
No file sending capability.
Cannot change your status.
Does not display information on accounts. Thus if a user on your contact list has more than one account, it is near impossible to determine which account on the phone refers to which.
Uninstallation:
There is no uninstaller. However it's quite easy to uninstall Prattle. Just remove "~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/Prattle.AdiumPlugin" where "~" is your home directory. Then remove the Prattle program from your phone.
In Prattle 0.2, please remove "BluetoothChat.AdiumPlugin" instead of "Prattle.AdiumPlugin".
Known phone compatibilities:
Known to work on Nokia 7610 and Nokia 6260.
Does not work on Sony Ericsson T610/T616/T618, T628/T630, Z600/Z60 and P800 (No Java Bluetooth API).
What's New:
Important: Please uninstall Prattle 0.2 by removing "~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/BluetoothChat.AdiumPlugin" where "~" is your home directory. Otherwise both Prattle 0.2 and 0.3 will be running, and you might connect the Prattle 0.3 phone client with the Prattle 0.2 server.
Unicode support (UTF-8 to be exact). Your phone will need to have the appropriate fonts in order to display non-ASCII characters.
New messages trigger an alert. If other messages are received while the alert is active, there will be no additional notification.
The other messages are shown in order, as alerts are dismissed.
This version is compatible with Adium 0.8.
When searching for "More devices", Prattle now displays an alert. Note that dismissing the alert will stop the search.
The new version will not find Prattle 0.2's servers. It is still possible to talk to a Prattle 0.2 server using "Reconnect".
Requires Java MIDP 2.0.
Requirements:
Since Prattle uses Bluetooth, both your mobile and your computer must have Bluetooth.
In addition, since Prattle is written in Java MIDP 1.0, you need a Java compatible phone.
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