ClicksAndWhistles is a free IRC client for Windows. Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging allowing you to communicate with others in IRC channels (chat rooms) and one-to-one communication via private messages. You can also connect directly with another user to chat or send/receive files.
Main features:
- Multiple server connections and multiple "identities" allowing you to have different nicknames on different servers.
- Unicode (UTF-8), "mixed" and "ANSI" (code page) character encodings supported, configurable on a per-channel/window basis.
- Channel favourite list with configurable key press shortcuts.
- Contacts (buddy lists) and user highlighting allowing you to associate different colours with different users.
- Keywords letting you know when somebody has mentioned something of interest to you or perhaps has mentioned your nickname. Optionally play a sound when a keyword appears.
- Support for emoticons including animated GIFs. Optionally play a sound when an emoticon appears.
- Two text display modes ("normal" or "column").
- Configurable themes, image backgrounds, outline fonts, colour gradient effects.
- Text formatting (colours, bold/italic/underline).
- Different window modes (tabbed, "place on desktop" and MDI).
- Minimize to tray with activity popup and sound event notifications.
- Full logging support including archiving and "scrollback logs" (previous session history).
- File transfers (DCC SEND) and direct chat (DCC CHAT). Identd support.
- Secure (SSL) server support. This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit. (http://www.openssl.org/).
- "Connection scripts" (a simple list of commands to run once connected) and "macros" (use one command to automatically run a series of other commands).
- Customizable message text.
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