IRC

For many users, the IRC client is the friendly face of IRC, allowing you to chat with individuals or groups of users. IRC clients are available for virtually all operating systems. In fact, several different IRC clients are available for Wind...

mIRC is shareware, but this fact has not dampened its success over free clients such as Bersirc (http://bersirc.free2code.net) and ChatZilla [Hack #4]. This can be partly attributed to its ease of use, but seasoned IRC users will also fi...

XChat can be downloaded from http://xchat.org, either as source code or in the form of precompiled binaries or packages. If you have a packaging system such as apt or Gentoo's emerge, then you may be able to get away with apt-get xchat o...

There is no shortage of IRC clients for Macintosh users. ChatZilla [Hack #4], the truly outstanding IRC client integrated into Mozilla, is popular among Mac users and can also be used on other operating systems. Non-Mozilla users hav...

If you're like me and work under various operating systems, you'll have a consistent IRC interface across the board. If you are using Netscape or a Mozilla build, ChatZilla is quick and easy to start using. If you are using Internet Expl...