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Snak - 5.1.5

IRC chat client for Internet meeting rooms

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 5.1.5:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	5.1.5
Release Date:	2006-09-23
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 5.1.5):	6,786
Downloads (all versions):	186,750
Price:	$29.00

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Product Description:

IRC - Internet Relay Chat. With Snak you can chat with people from all over the world in IRC meeting rooms on the Internet. Millions of people use IRC and there are thousands of meeting rooms with varied subjects like computers, soccer or sports. You can also use IRC to have private conversations with family or friends, and since IRC is worldwide you can use it to practice your language skills.

What's new in this version:

[New] Limited Unicode (UTF-8) support. All characters from the 11 languages for which Snak is localized, are automatically handled correctly when received as UTF-8. Full Unicode supprt (Japanese, Greek, Hebrew etc.) is expected in the next major version.
[New] Option to use the more descriptive word "room" instead of "channel". This is set by default for a new installation. Existing installations are not changed.
[New] Character encoding popup in the connection profile. The choices are the traditional western encoding, Unicode, and cyrillic. When Unicode is selected, International characters in outgoing messages are formatted as UTF-8.
[New] The selected text is accessible through AppleScript with the panelSelectedText property.
[Chg] Doubleclicking in the userlist to add to inputfield will add a space at the end
[Chg] The panel name AppleScript property is changed to group:name, like this: List:Profiles/Contacts/Actions/Requests/Users or DCC:name or network:name.
[Chg] The channel topic is shown in the text area when joining.
[Chg] New AppleScript behavior when accessing panels by index. When asking for panel 1, or "first" or "front" panel, the last activated panel is returned. Otherwise the panels are accessed sequentially.
[Fix] Some characters would not get coloured if you selected a text color from the style popup and typed very quickly.
[Fix] asking for the version through AppleScript returned incorrect information.
[Fix] Panels could not be accessed with the every keyword with AppleScript.
[Fix] Panels could not be accessed by name with AppleScript.
[Fix] An incorrect number was returned for number of DCC Connections.
[Fix] Reopening connection by selecting panel and doing cmd-o would also show the console window.
[Fix] Can't load AppleScripts if the filetype isn't set right.
[Fix] Blinking insertion point in multiple windows.
[Fix] Inactive selection is not grey.
[Fix] Repeating disconnect and reconnect on sleep when a mounted volume/refreshing webpage or something else prevented the system from going fully to sleep.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.1.5:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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File serve - Version: 5.3.3, 7/13/2008 07:44PM PST

macshadow

Any one use this to share a folder on an irc client? And if so, how? Can't find any place to choose a folder and am not getting a response to my emails to support.

The best IRC client! - Version: 5.3.3, 1/13/2008 08:43AM PST

(1 of 1 users found this comment useful)

ciglione1

I've been using Snak for years, and I'm glad to see it's still getting better and better! I used to have a license and I was thinking to get a new one, so I went to the website and found out about the pledge to kiva.org. What to say... Great! I felt even more motivated to send the money, since it would be used to help those people. I totally appreciate their support to Kiva and I wish more developers would do such things!

The only thing I really would like to see is the possibility to have a DCC transfer window open "in the background", like a private message (basically, without making it the active window). Apart from this, I'm completely satisfied with the program.

By the way, the support is also very good. I remember sending info on a bug to the developer: he replied and said he'd work on it, and in the following Snak version I found the bugs had been fixed.

I did try other IRC clients, but Snak is still the best by far!

Great initiative. Supporting kiva.org microcredit with PayPal payments - Version: 5.3.3, 11/15/2007 05:01PM PST

(2 of 2 users found this comment useful)

brunobfan

I'm so completely thrilled to see that the authors of Snak have pledged to give all PayPal payments to kiva.org (http://kiva.org) Kiva is one of my favorite charities because they help by giving poor people access to small loans so they can help themselves. It's totally different than writing a check to a random charity to do with as they please. It's called micro-credit afaik

So, when you pay for or renew a Snak license, the money will be sent to kiva and loaned out to someone in the third world. Each lender loans out only a small amount like $25 which goes towards the full amount that the loaner has requested. The Snak authors are even publishing their page at kiva so you can check that they actually do what they have promised. Right now they've already loaned out 18 separate chunks of money. Way to go, Snak users :-) You can read more about their pledge at http://www.snak.com/KivaPledge.html

Oh, and since this is a review I better end by saying that 5.3.3 works great. I haven't updated to Leopard yet so I haven't seen the bugs that this version fixes. Snak is stable and reliable.