Galaxy Note 7 pulled? I'm astonished that a company of Samsung's standing could make such a mess.

Pidgin is not OSX and suggests Adium. I'll try that again.

just finding out.

I'm getting major problems with iMessage and Google -- refusing to logon because of some issue with certificates -- which is leading me to seek alternatives.

Adium I gave up on because it had major issues with iChat. Anyone know if it is improved?

Any other apps that will do both iChat and GTalk? I don't need iChat often, but when I do, it is nice to have on the desktop machine.

@japchap You're welcome. But then, I would say that, under the circumstances.

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I use Pathfinder as a finder replacement, and it has wonderfully powerful file renaming built in, so that's not been an issue so far. And long ago I was able to do things in Applescript. I should start again.

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I've always been scared of scripts. Wouldn't really know where to begin, even though I often have repetitive tasks that might benefit from them.

So, where should I begin?

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Probably not germane, but I've tried getting Pandoc to work with Alfred, because I don't use Pandoc all that often, and it has been a vale of tears.

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Have you considered a job with that nice Mr Putin?

I'll find a way.

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