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IRC on the iPhone

In: geek

5 Jul 2007

Oh yes.

On my Blackberry Pearl, I had been using jmIrc to connect to irc and chat. This was one of the things I missed when I got my iPhone. Thanks to the fine folks behind Colloquy, I now can do this on the iPhone:
IRC Chat Main Window

The trick is to use the Web Interface Add-In which has been updated for the iPhone. Here are the steps taken directly from colloquy.info:

1. Download
2. Install in ~/Library/Application Support/Colloquy/PlugIns
3. Set a password with this command: defaults write info.colloquy WebInterfacePassword yourpassword
4. Open or relaunch Colloquy.
5. Visit http://yourip:6667 on your iPhone.
6. Enter your password.

Once you’ve connected, you’ll be presented with a list of channels configured in Colloquy on your Mac. It’s that easy. Input doesn’t seem to work reliably (at the moment) in landscape mode, but it works fine in standard mode. All in all, it is very useful and fairly stable. On busy IRC channels, the updating can be a bit behind, but it catches up pretty fast on a Wifi connection. I have yet to test it on EDGE since my setup is completely internal at the moment. I’m happy with what I see, especially with private messages and the members list. Here are a few more pictures:

IRC InputMember ListChannel ListNickname Highlighting

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Justin Prine

July 5th, 2007 at 8:10 pm

Nice find. Thanks for sharing!

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chris

July 6th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

I can only do this on the lan, it won’t connect to my external ip at all on wifi or edge

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Ng

July 7th, 2007 at 4:40 pm

Is there a way to get irc on your iphone working with a windows machine?

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Bwana

July 7th, 2007 at 5:29 pm

not that I know of. Maybe trillian has a web interface?

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Ng

July 7th, 2007 at 7:14 pm

Can you even use trillian on the iphone? Haha.

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Bwana

July 7th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

That’s the point of a web interface, to use the iPhone with it………

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