Use Facebook Chat with iChat!

We all love Apples iChat, its my favourite application for IM because it does so many different things! (file sharing, screen sharing, web-cam) Now we add to that list adding our Facebook Chat into iChat.

We need to first get your Facebook username so go to your home profile. Now look at your URL bar.
(view http://www.facebook.com/your_username/) Copy or remember the username without the "?ref=profile" if you see that like i do.

Open iChat, then select iChat > Preferences and click on the Accounts tab.

Click on the + sign to add a new account, now input these settings:

- Account Type is Jabber Account
- Account name is your_user@chat.facebook.com, and enter your password
- Click the drop-down arrow to see the server options. Enter chat.facebook.com as the server name.
- Enter 5222 as the port.
- Click done.
- Click done again.

There you are! Now you can spend more time playing instead of working.


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