How to start chatting with other users

After you get connected if you haven't setup your AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, or MSN you need to do so. I bring up the menu by pressing the joystick to the right. Then I get 6 icons in a box.

1. Three computers networked. - Used to enter your IM names & passwords you want to use.
2. A question mark in a talk bubble. - Program info: Version and Dev Team
3. A red button like in windows xp to shut down - Closes the program.
4. A small grey rectangle with something green linking it to a larger grey rectangle under it. - Your IM connections you have setup and then displays your buddylists under it.
5. A light bulb - Change your Status.
6. A blue cube with a plus sign - Add a contact.

Now even though you have setup your IM logins you still need to add those contact to TipicME in order for them to show Online for some reason. Maybe it's because I am using beta. It automatically told me which people were already online by displaying their name with an icon for the type(AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, or MSN Icon) But lately if I haven't use the Add contact in TipicMe I will not know if they are actually online or not. I can still see them in the buddylist and can write to them though. Once you have them added I suggest doing a quick test. I used my AIM on the phone and signed my wife onto AIM on her pc. Without her added as a Contact in Tipicme I could still send her an IM by selecting her on the buddylist and she could send back. When she sent back my phone beeped as to alert me I just got a message but it didn't put the notice from who. After I added her as a contact then I could see her online and that the message was from her. And could continue the conversation.