hiding AIM

just wondering if there is any program or tweak you can make to aim or GAIM that allows you to hide all IM windows? for example if you're at work and you want to hide aim and not let any new msgs pop up on your screen.

thanks ;)

First I would like to tell you to be careful. Chatting with a buddy ain't worth losing you job over. Also, a sys admin can tell if you are chatting on AIM.

But here is a proggy that works like that with a keystroke it hides and with a keystroke it appears.
http://www.iconcave.com/item.php?type=p&id=7&load=1

- MilitantEidolon

You can always right click on AIM, then click on "exit" then wait until you get home to use it.

[joke]LOL :D then they blame it on Bush if they lose their job :D [/joke]

Here is the thing. Hiding the icon will only stop a human from seeing it on your desktop. All I have to do as an admin is look at traffic destine for oscar.aol.com on port 5190 and you are PWN3D. Don't be a dumbass, your admins will see your IM traffic no matter what you hide at the desktop level.

I know it just hides the screen, I realize anyone can view the traffic. Thanks for the link MilitantEidolon, thats exactly what I was looking for. we use AIM at my office for work and I get 20 ims at once sometimes and I need to not have it interrupting my coding all day. So if I can hide it and view the msgs when I'm done what I'm working on that would help me out alot.
:)
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First I would like to tell you to be careful. Chatting with a buddy ain't worth losing you job over. Also, a sys admin can tell if you are chatting on AIM.

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Here is the thing. Hiding the icon will only stop a human from seeing it on your desktop. All I have to do as an admin is look at traffic destine for oscar.aol.com on port 5190 and you are PWN3D. Don't be a dumbass, your admins will see your IM traffic no matter what you hide at the desktop level.

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You can always right click on AIM, then click on "exit" then wait until you get home to use it.

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Just wanted you to see the responses on the idea.

- MilitantEidolon

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Originally posted here by cobain_attacks
we use AIM at my office for work and I get 20 ims at once sometimes and I need to not have it interrupting my coding all day.

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This may be stating the obvious, but why not just turn the damm thing off when your coding :confused: ;)

Cheers:

because I have to have it on for tech support issues I'm the programming contact for tech support. and they want me to keep it on

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Originally posted here by cobain_attacks
because I have to have it on for tech support issues I'm the programming contact for tech support. and they want me to keep it on

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But when your hiding the messages, isn't it rather pointless even having it on?

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not at all....
I dont want msgs popping up when I'm in the middle of writing a line of code

how annoying would this be... exit AIM, start coding, Start AIM, check msgs, Exit Aim, start coding (lose all conversations I was just having) etc...
its alot nicer to click CNRL + Y to get back and fourth.

i use psi, it integrates with msn yahoo and aim and icq. it changes the icone in the bottom right systray from yellow to red, and you just double click that and pops open the message box which is just their box and then you click reply to right to it, hit the esc key if you wanna do away with it, and its small boxes to so if you really do wanna hide it from the boss its no problem, it just stays an icon in the tray on the right though. its pretty nice. http://psi.affinix.com/

GAIM, aside from supporting encrypted IM traffic, also has features similar to this. Builtin plugins allow for your messenger icon in your systray to blink, but no messages popup until you select it. This prevents you from being spammed. If you combine this with the plugin that keeps a chat history, this should more than be adequate based on what you have said so far.

GAIM supports, among other things, AIM, Trillian, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber.

http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/gaim

do you think you will become paranoid to look for the people whos watching over you while you do it?

even though people beside you won't notice it, there are those system administrator that will say "I got ya! I know what you're doing, man.."

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Ahhhh....juicy, he/she has already said it's an authorized application for his/her job, nobody is going to say "I got ya". ;)

yea I'm not worried about any gotchas
just trying to get around the annoying pop ups every few minutes
I use gaim at home so I'll give that a try too I didn't know you could configure it like that. :)

Ok neat little feature in AIM, if you have it running and you put up an away message then in the box where you see your away message there is an option called "disable pop-up notifications while I'm away". If you check this and check the disable sounds buttons, you wont get any popup windows and you wont see the bloody blinking in the taskbar either.