ICQ 2002a
I have a love/hate relationship with ICQ... have for the last 6 or so months.. I love it because it was the first messenger I ever used.. it's like an old jumper or your favourite pair of slippers.. it has a high comfort factor but due to connection/history problems our relationship turned a little sour... hopefully I wont be experiencing the same thing again now that I've upgraded to 2002a.. fingers crossed.


ICQ has extensive coverage of their own program at [www.icq.com] and we have no intention of trying to post the same, and/or mirrored information here... what this section will cover is our opinion/s of it and some of the basic questions that we get asked about quite a bit... like keyboard shortcuts, how to preform the most common tasks, what some of the buttons/features are and how to use them etc. Yes, most of which have already been covered at [www.icq.com] but we'll be taking a slightly different approach to them as we know from the emails/IM's/Posts that we've seen that some of you are having trouble navigating their site, following the tutorials and coming to grips with ICQ itself... this is where we hope to step in and lend a hand by explaining some of the features in a way we hope you might be able to understand a little better. If you feel you have a good grasp of ICQ then this section wont appeal to you at all as it really will be the "basics" so I'd recommend that those of you who have already mastered ICQ head directly to [www.icq.com] and get stuck into their own tutorials/forums etc as they really are brilliant and cover the ICQ features in depth :-) For those who need a helping hand feel free to follow the updated tutorials covering 2002a :-)


ICQ is very different to the other Instant Messenger (IM) programs you'll come across.. it's interface is different and it offers a wide range of features and options that you wont find in the other IM's... it also has a few quirks.. not being able use "enter" to send a message drives many people up the wall.. rightly so if you're in the habit of using it when you switch to MSN, Yahoo etc. 2002a hasn't correct this quirk... dang! maybe next time ;-)

On with it...

Requirements...
RAM - 16Mb
SPACE - 24Mb
Pentium 100+
Internet Explorer 4.0+
Windows 95/98/2000/ME/NT4/XP
Latest Version...
ICQ 2002a Build #3728 (Released 2 July)
file - icq2002a.exe
size- 3.88 mb

Download ICQ...

[www.icq.com/download]

First impression of 2002a? well kinda cool new look... kinda ;-) Reminds me of when MSN went from 3.6 to 4.. for the smileys at least... I'm not sure I like their new look.. seems someone took to them with a bucket of hotwax ;-)