Free conversations software for mac

IRC for the rest of us... Conversation makes chatting on the IRC network as easy as using iChat and other IM clients.
Conversation allows you to chat in channels and with your friends in a simple, elegant and Mac-like interface without the use of any text command.
Yet it has a comprehensive set of features, some unique to Conversation.
Main features:
- Easy to use, true MacOS X Interface
- Single or Multiple windows
- Multiple Servers
- Searchable Server and Channel list
- See if your buddies are online
- Sound alerts
- Speech
- File Transfer
- Clickable URLs
- Clickable MP3 and XDCC File Offers

Enhancements:

• Version 1.1: Adds Split Side of Conversation v1.0 and Convert For Internet v1.0.
• Updates the other utilities to include a progress bar, and fixes various minor issues.

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

Log in with your AOL IM account. No data is logged, but all of your information does pass through my server. I am not harvesting any information. This app is server intensive, so Im limiting sessions to 10 minutes for now.
Use your mouse to flick (drag and release) your buddy list up and down like youre supposed to on the iPhone. Click a buddy to start a conversation. You can open multiple conversations... flick left/right to change conversations.
Known Issues:
- No groups.
- No buddy icons (Anyone have full TOC2 documentation?).
- Opening more than 4 conversations gets unruly.
- Works in Firefox and Safari, but not IE.
iPhone Chat was built with PHP, Yahoo! UI Library and BlueTOC.
System requirements:
- iPhone

Chat Client is a Gay.com chat client.
Main features:
- Java uses your web browser so it re-downloads every time you want to use it. Chat Client does not.
- No history or cookies created from chatting.
- Password protection and anti-flooding protection.
- Disable incoming private requests with 1 click, Allows you to screen your privates and stop annoying pop-ups.
- Connects to most Java based chat servers.
- Tells you when people come in a room under 2 nicks (Clone).
- Hide Mode allows ALL windows to be hidden and removed from taskbar. Great for @ work chatters.
- Custom Messages for Ignore or Away mode.
- Alerts you of nick changes for a given chatter in a room.
- Allows you to automatically log your private and public conversations to disk.
- Multi-color text and fonts.
Enhancements:
- Fixed Gay.com buddy list to correctly display buddies online.
- Corrected crash issue with blank pop-up.

So what is The Levelator? Its software that runs on Windows or OS X (universal binary) that adjusts the audio levels within your podcast or other audio file for variations from one speaker to the next, for example.

Its not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. Its much more than those tools, and its much simpler to use.

The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Levelers application window, and a few moments later youll find a new version which just sounds better.

Have you ever recorded an interview in which you and your guest ended up at different volumes? How about a panel discussion where some people were close to microphones and others were not?

These are the problems the post-production engineers of Team ITC solve every day, and it used to sometimes take them hours of painstaking work with expensive and complex tools like SoundTrack Pro, Audacity, Sound Forge or Audition to solve them. Now it takes mere seconds. Seriously. The Levelator is unlike any other audio tool youve ever seen, heard or used. Its magic. And its free.

When we developed the IT Conversations component-based show-assembly system (the first generation of GigaVox Audio Lite, see below), we realized all the components had to be of the same loudness or the results would sound awful. We limped along for many months using the RMS normalization functions in various applications, but the results werent satisfactory and it required tools and skillsets that some of our post-production audio engineers didnt have.

One of our best engineers, Bruce Sharpe, offered to write a standalone software RMS normalization utility, which weve been using as part of our production system GVUploader for nearly a year.

The GVUploaders normalizer acts similar to an intelligent RMS-based compressor/limiter combination, and it therefore affects primarily the short-term (transient) sounds and the long-term overall loudness of the file. It doesnt make the kind of adjustments that a skilled audio engineer can perform in software or at a mixing console, riding the levels up and down to compensate for medium-term variations.

There are some hardware devices such as various AGC (automatic-gain control) components that can do moderate leveling, but since they have to operate in real time (i.e., without look-ahead), they cant do much. And they arent cheap, let alone free.

Even a skilled human can only react to changes unless s/he is lucky enough to be present during a recording session and can use visual cues to anticipate coming variations. Software can do better by performing multiple passes over the audio, generating a loudness map of where the volume changes. (Its not actually that simple, but the metaphor can help.)

Life Screensaver is cellular automata implemented completely and totally for the conversation-piece value.

You can read a bit about cellular automata and the game of Life, too.