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</h1> <div class="taskboxline"> <div class="taskboxheader"> <h3>Using Direct Connect
</h3> <div class="taskboxtext"> <p>When using the AIM and Mobile Me services (including when talking to contacts using iChat), you can "directly connect" to send a contact inline pictures and large blocks of text. Images dragged and dropped – or pasted – into a chat which is directly connected are sent and displayed inside that window rather than via a separate file transfer.
</p> <p>To initiate a Direct Connect, simply drag or paste an image into the text entry area. Adium will invite the remote user to accept a direct connection (iChat automatically accepts such invitations) and then display the picture inline in both your message window and the other user's message window.
</p> <p>Direct Connect faces the same difficulties as
<a href="AdvancedFeatures-FileTransfer.html">file transfer
</a> (e.g. NAT traversal).
<p>Direct Connect is also called “direct messaging”, “direct IM”, or “direct chat”.
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