TalkonAut Free Program to use Jabber protocol on
Apple IPad (IBad)
I've installed Jabber as a platform for internal company
communication for a company. It was a requirement for this jabber
server to be accessed from a different type of computers / devices
different in size, hardware and OS e.g. (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux,
Ipad, mobile phones etc.)
Happily there is plenty of free software programs which allows
access to jabber for free. On the major operating systems
GNU /
Linux, Mac OS X and Windows the client jabber accounts are
working fine with the wonderful free software
Pidgin -
The Universal Chat Client
One of the jabber clients, however was primary had to be used on
Apple's proprietary
IPad /
IBad as Richard Stallman
likes to call it ;)
The person who had to have the
Jabber protocol working on IPad
program was not a proficient user and therefore I had the task
to find a program to be able to talk to the Jabber protocol for
him.
A quick search in Google for
jabber ipad client led me to
few programs said to support Jabber on Ipad
:
Jabba was looking quite, nice but unfortunately costs $1.99
and should be purchased in Apple's App Store and it was preferrable
not to spend money on a trivial thing as a Jabber client.
I gave BeejiveIM a try but it required some very complex
registration, as well as again required to be purchased (if I
remember correctly), so it wasn't an option either.
Then thanksfully, I found TalknOut which is free and it
is a perfect jabber client for Apple Ipad
Talkonaut is a program also supporting both Jabber (XMPP) and
GTalk2VoIP, hence supporting Google Talk and MSN/Live
Messanger.
It is written Java and therefore works on any device that has Java
installed. Talkonaut supports the following mobile
architectures:
- Apple's IPhone and Ipad
- Google Android Phones
- Many of the Nokia Symbian's S60 3rd and 5th edition "smart"
phones
- Windows Mobile 5.x and 6.x
- Java J2ME based phones
Installing
TalkonAut is a piece of cake from Ipod's Safari you
click on the Install link and it gets installed. I will not get
into details on how it is configured as this also is pretty
easy.
Here is how it looks like on Ipad after configured and the user is
logged in Jabber:
Something really unique and nice for the program is the way the
chat dialogs gets ordered, the idea to place one person's sending
on the left side and the replying one on right is innovative and
something I've not seen in another chat client ;)
Talkonaut should also support VoIP (voice conversations),
between mobile users, I'm curious if somebody used the program for
VoIP and can share feedback?