Other Instant Message Programs

AIM,Windows Live Messenger,and Yahoo! Messenger are three other popular instant messaging systems.Maybe you already have accounts on them,or maybe you don’t,but setting them up is always roughly the same.So rather than telling you about each one individually,we’ll show you how to set one up.

Adding an Account

We’ll go through setting up an AIM account.Open the IM application if you aren’t already in it. If you are in it,you need to get to the Account list.

If you’re looking at a chat,press the Menu button and tap Friends list.

If you’re already looking at the Friends list,press the Menu button and tap Account list.

Because we’ll set up AIM (AOL’s instant messaging application),tap that.As you can see,we’re already set up on the other available instant messaging application.

When setting up a new connection,you’re presented with a pretty basic logon box.

If you don’t already have an account on whatever system you want to connect to,the logon screen includes a link to create an account.In the case of AIM,as you can see,it is Get a Screen Name.The link is in the same location regardless of the account,but it might say something a little different for each service.

If you don’t have an account and you need to create one,tap the link.Doing so opens the appropriate page in a web browser to allow you to create the account.

If you do have an account,just fill in the account name and password.

If you want your phone to remember your password,check the box.If you do,you get a friendly reminder to change your password using your computer should your phone get stolen or lost.

                    

Choose Sign me in automatically if you want the application to sign you in automatically whenever you launch it.

Removing an Account

Let’s say you added a Yahoo! account and then realized that you wanted to add a completely different Yahoo! account.Or maybe you were just experimenting with creating an account, and now you want to use a different account.

Head back to the Accounts screen,tap and hold the account you’d like to remove,and select Remove account from the list.That’s all there is to it.