Live Chat and IRC on iPhone
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http://live.pirillo.com/ – If anyone still doubts the awesome capabilities of the iPhone, I think it’s safe to say we can put those concerns to rest.
Our good friend Andru Edwards came to visit the chatroom at live.pirillo.com recently to demonstrate how Apple’s iPhone can be used to connect to an IRC chat. He put together a step-by-step tutorial on connecting to IRC with your iPhone, and uploaded it to Gearlive.com.
In this video, you can see that I am using my iPhone to connect to my chat room. This was accomplished using the Mac mini and the Colloquy IRC chat client for OS X. It’s simple to set up, and by far my favorite IRC client. Once you have Colloquy installed, be sure to download the Colloquy Web Interface Add-on plugin.
Every application on your system that connects to the Internet does so using a computer port. For instance, most IRC networks connect to the Internet using Port 6667. It ends in a 7! Imagine that. 7 is my favorite number! But, I digress…
I went into my wireless router settings and opened a port using port forwarding and then directed it to my Mac mini’s IP address. So now, when I access my general IP address using my iPhone, it goes to the port I just opened and the router automatically sends it to the mini, allowing me to chat.
This will be great when I am on the road. Let’s say I have a question about a price for something. I can jump into chat and say, “Hey! Help me out here!” and, I hope, receive some answers to help me in my decisions. I can connect to keep you all updated about my whereabouts, what I’m busy doing, and just to answer as many questions as one man can handle.
Has this made me fall in love with iPhone? Not quite, no. But I’m getting there.
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