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To my knowledge, there is no Crackberry IRC channel, that's active. I'm going to make one in hopes of enhancing the Crackberry experience. IRC is essentially a chatroom, but a bit more private, honestly it's incredibly hard to explain, so refer to the link below if you want to know more about it.
Anyway, my goal is to make a friendly community, that not only is a place for users to chat, but a place for people to get real-time support for blackberries, from various users from the Crackberry forums.
A little about IRC: Internet Relay Chat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To connect to IRC, you need to use a client, you can use Mobile Clients, Windows Clients, OSX/Linux Clients, and Web Clients.
~Clients~
Web Clients: I've put this first for people stingy about either downloading an IRC client to their PC or their phone, this option is the fastest, but not very customizeable, I recommend this option for new IRC users, that want to just click a few things, type a few things, and get into the channel fast.
The network that the channel is on, is called Chatspike, ChatSpike - The Users Network
Chatspike has a java client, all you have to do is click the link, put your nick in (The name that someone sees when you log in), your real name (Put whatever you'd like here, but keep it short), and the channel(#Crackberry).
The link for this web client is: ChatSpike - The Users Network
Chatzilla: Chatzilla is a lightweight client that is essentially a FireFox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/16
Mibbit: Mibbit is a web client for more advanced users that don't feel like downloading anything: Mibbit.com - Easy and fast Webchat
Phone Clients: There's a bit less to choose here, but only because generally phone clients have less frills and are very basic, I recommend jmIRC, it's the only one I really can use right.
jmIRC: http://jmirc.sf.net/jmIrc.jad
virca: http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/virca/Virca.jad
Windows Clients:
There's literally hundreds of windows IRC clients, one for everything, the two most popular are mIRC, and xChat.
mIRC: mIRC: Download mIRC
xchat: X-Chat 2 for Windows
Refer to this link for more IRC clients: Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mac/Linux clients:
Xchat: Xchat is a cross-platform IRC client. XChat: Multiplatform Chat Program
~Connect~
The IRC channel is on the network Chatspike, to connect, the network is irc.chatspike.net, and the channel is #Crackberry, or #crackberry For any additional questions on how to connect, what to use, anything else, just ask.
Last edited by Carroty; 03-24-09 at 12:28 AM.
03-22-09 08:21 PM
