{"id":9077,"date":"2014-07-06T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=9077"},"modified":"2014-07-06T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T16:19:37","slug":"icloud-drops-support-for-third-party-aim-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/06\/icloud-drops-support-for-third-party-aim-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"iCloud Drops Support for Third-Party AIM Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2449595\/increased-messages-security-leaves-ichat-third-party-im-clients-by-the-wayside.html\">Dan Moren<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2449595\/increased-messages-security-leaves-ichat-third-party-im-clients-by-the-wayside.html\"><p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/TS5224?viewlocale=en_US&amp;locale=en_US\">enhanced security that Apple has put in place<\/a> as of July 1, folks with those specific [mac.com\/me.com\/icloud.com] usernames can no longer connect to the AIM service with clients other than Messages running on OS X 10.7.2 or later.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>If you don&rsquo;t want to upgrade your version of OS X or switch to Messages, your alternative is to create a new AIM account. Of course, that requires that you re-construct your buddy list, which may be a not insignificant amount of work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Moren: Thanks to enhanced security that Apple has put in place as of July 1, folks with those specific [mac.com\/me.com\/icloud.com] usernames can no longer connect to the AIM service with clients other than Messages running on OS X 10.7.2 or later. [&#8230;] If you don&rsquo;t want to upgrade your version of OS X or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[931,827,16,30,32,141,48],"class_list":["post-9077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-aol-instant-messenger-aim","tag-chat","tag-icloud","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-messages","tag-security"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}