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What's new in this version: - Fixed another problem with the transcript viewer causing search to fail when closing and reopening the window. (#13586, #15699) - Fixed a problem with iTunes 10.6.3 on Mac OS X 10.6.8 causing the chat window's toolbar to break. (#16046) - Fixed crash at startup that was meant to be fixed in 1.5.2.

(#15787) - Fixed a crash when receiving invalid XML on 10.8. (#16095) - Fixed an issue that caused logging in to Facebook to fail when login approvals are enabled. (#15705) - Icons set for group chat bookmarks will now show up on the tab bar in the chat window. (Andreas Marienborg) (#14484) - Fixed tables not being declared as such via VoiceOver. (Marco Zehe) (#16085) - Fixed a problem with emoticons scaling disproportionately in the yMous message style when using OS X 10.8. - Improved memory use slightly.

• Make room persistent?  Best free html editor for mac os x. preserves the room so that the room is not destroyed after all the participants log out. The default setting is that the room will be deleted when all of the users leave. (Note:Persistant chatroom names can not be reused until the owner of the chat room destroys the room.) • Make room publicly searchable sets the room to be found when anyone searches for it through Jabber • Make participants list public? sets the list of people in room room available to everyone in that room • Make room password protected is for the owner to enter a password for the room • that participants will need to enter when trying to join the room. • Maximum Number of Occupants? sets a limit for number of users in the room at a time • Present JIDs to? enables either the room moderators or any users to see the participants' real names. • Make room members only?  Are external drives fast enough for gaming mac bootcamp. limits the room to access by room members only • Make room moderated? allows individual participants to be added as moderators for a room • Default users as participants? sets users as participants of the particular room • Allow users to change room subject? Allows users to change the subject (title) of a room • Allow users to send private messages? • Allow users to query other users?

• Allow users to send invites? allows users to invite other participants to the room • Allow users to send status text in presence updates? • Allow visitors to change nickname? Allows participants to change their nick name in the room provided that the nickname is in the form of netid-something Departmental ('Become') Account Chat Room Information Some departments may find it useful to create private departmental chat rooms staffed by a number of people, such as a department charged with answering questions in 'real time' from students, staff and faculty. However, since logging into a departmental chat room requires authorized members to 'become' that account the users' identities are unknown. As a solution, OIT allows adding a hyphen so people in the departmental chat room or those visiting--for instance, a support chat room for users with computer-related questions--can talk with someone they can identify. For example, a possible room named 'helpdesk' can have members named info-A and info-B and info-C, or helpdesk-joe, helpdesk-john and helpdesk-rob. OIT requires the departmental name (in this example 'info' or 'helpdesk') to be in the nickname, but what the department chooses to use after the hyphen is up to the account owner and any appropriate convention is available.