As the name
implies, ICQ or 'I Seek You' is simply a clever way of getting in
touch with people. This small program takes the complicated work of
finding friends, colleagues and people with similar interests across
the globe, people who could be communicating by email, chat, SMS,
phone or pager, and makes it as straight forward as calling across a
room and starting a friendly
The most
popular method of communication on ICQ is instant messaging, enabling
you to send a message that immediately pops up on an online contact's
screen. ICQ also lets you chat, send emails, SMS and wireless-pager
messages, as well as transfer files and URLs. ICQphone incorporates IP
telephony functions enabling you to engage in PC-to-PC and PC-to-phone
calls. Used in multiple-user mode, groups can conduct conferences or
play games with ICQ. In fact, ICQ supports a variety of popular
Internet applications and serves as a Universal Platform from which
you can launch peer-to-peer applications.
New
Features for ICQ 2002a Beta:
New
People Search: By Keyword or Free Text! - Allow
users to perform almost a literal search (for example: female
18 Sweden Jazz Music entered in the Keyword search field will
automatically return results for Females age 18-22 from Sweden who
like Jazz Music). The Keyword search field will also support a
limited free text search, with questions like: How
can I find females from Sweden? Keyword search has been added
to the Add/Invite Users dialog.
Add
and Find Users Buttons
Now there are 2 easy ways to find friends and add them to your ICQ: Add will open the Add/Invite Users dialog, where you
can search to see if your friends are on ICQ, add them to your ICQ
& invite more friends to join you. Find Users will open a detailed ICQ users directory search
dialog, where you can search for new pals, lost family and old
friends by interests, background, gender, age, location, language
and more.
New!
Quick Link from Message Window to User's Unified Messaging Center!
View a user's ICQ Unified Messaging Center, to see their personal
details, photo and all the ways to contact them.
Message
Design, New Smileys & Icons -
We've improved the message window design so that you can keep your
settings even on incoming messages, and have more colorful ways to
express yourself:
Override users color &
font settings.
New emotions & newly
designed smilies.
Enhanced
Email Integration -
Check any of your email accounts with ICQ!
You can preview and delete your incoming mail directly from your ICQ
Contact List, and send email too! Click here for more
With the new ICQ Email
Signature you can enter additional details about yourself that
will appear only on your signature, and will not be added to
your general ICQ details.
You also now have real
preview capability of the signature on an Explorer window.
Firewall
Detection: Use ICQ at Work - ICQ now automatically detects
your Internet Explorer proxy settings if you use the automatic
configuration script.
This means that you can use your ICQ at the office, for better
communication with your colleagues as well as with your friends
& family.
Set
Alert & Accept Sounds per User! - We've brought back
the ability to set specific sounds for certain incoming messages
& alerts per specific user.
You'll find it in your ICQ 2002a by clicking a user name in your
Contact List -> Alert /Accept Modes -> under General Alerts
-> Setup Personal User Sounds.
XP
Integration -
Bug fixes to improve
integration.
Enabling users to switch
owners, by moving ICQ to stand by, keeping ICQ in system tray
for convenient relaunch by new owner.
Better
Spam Protection & More!
Smaller download size.
Keep your connection - ICQ
automatically detects your net connection whether in modem or
LAN.
Improved spam protection,
easier to set your security & privacy protection.
