Mercury

Mercury ThermometerMercury has been many things

A Planet, car, Roman god, an atom of liquid metal, a space flight and a lot more.
It was also a software for Instant Messaging.

February 20, 2019

 

Features of Mercury

OS Independent

  • Support for multiple operating systems, you can run the same Mercury version on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows.

Extended MSN Functions

  • Be online with several MSN addresses at the same time (without starting a new program for every account)
  • Login with your status on ‘Invisible’ or any other status you want.
  • Have a different MSN name in every conversation (Personal name)
  • Send screen shots to your contacts
  • Add more then 12 users in one conversation (MSN messenger limit)
  • Special codes in your name.
  • Nick scroller, change your name every 30 seconds into something complety different (allows the usage of the special codes)
  • Avatar scroller, automaticly change your avatar every 5 minutes
  • Background image scroller, automaticly change backgrounds every x minutes
  • Send larger avatars then normal
  • Override someones avatar
  • Enter notes while in a conversation you might need later (date of birth, last name, phone numbers)

Plugin Support

  • Use and create your own plugins
  • Custom games:
    • Chess
    • Risk
    • you can also create them yourself

Improved Events

  • See when someone starts a conversation with you before he says something (this has been removed from MSN7, Mercury will now show when someone starts typing, this is the closest I could get to the old function)
  • See when someone closes the chat conversation window.
  • See who added you into a conversation with multiple people
  • See when someone deletes you from their contact list.
  • See what MSN client version someone is using (or emulating, Mercury currently emulates 7.5)
  • See if someone in your list is using Mercury
  • See if someone in your list has a webcam (if he/she allows you to see it)
  • See your fake, faked and ghost friends
  • Specific triggers for each person (trigger = action after event)
  • Supported actions for a trigger include sound, a popup window, a windows balloon (balloon=Windows only), shaking a window
  • Support for Growl

Access to Resources

  • All avatars downloaded are stored on your computer
  • All webcam streams are stored on your computer, you can convert them to a Quicktime movie if you want or watch them internally using the webcam stream player
  • All personal emoticons downloaded are stored on your computer

Extended IM Functions

  • Text recall.
  • Auto log chat conversations, always log your chats so you can read back everything that is said between you and your contacts.
  • Auto login multiple accounts on startup.
  • Auto away, change your status to away (or anything else) after x seconds of idle time (Windows and Linux only)
  • Auto update when a new version is available (Mercury asks if you wish to update when new version is available)
  • XML and text based chat logs

Extended Customizing

  • Customize all menu bars.
  • Customize your contact list:
    • Hide offline contacts
    • Show emoticons in the list
    • Sort contacts by group, status or both
    • Show contacts by email, MSN name, alias or a combination of the above, supports multiple lines (List view)
    • Change the status icons
    • See the difference between contacts using Mercury, contacts having a webcam, fake friends and more
    • Show display pictures in the list
  • Customize your conversation area: (1710 Beta and up)
    • By using HTML you can make your conversation looking the way you want it to
    • By downloading views other people made, you can find the view you like the most without making it yourself
  • Show contacts in the program by email, MSN name, alias or a combination of the above (General view)
  • Add new status icons
  • Mercury has 10 custom skins and 3 java skins
  • XML based setting files.

Downsides of Mercury

  • It requires a pretty fast computer if you want to take full advantage of all it’s functions. Since I am using Swing to display the user interface almost no native widgets are used. This can slow things down on older computers.
  • Not sure if you can call this a downside, but Mercury was not made to be exactly like MSN Messenger. It might take you a few seconds longer to find an option you need. I’m not trying to make a MSN Messenger clone so the user interface is different…

 

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