Getting to the settings is simple...

• Close BeejiveIM.
• On your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen, tap the Settings icon.
• Scroll down and tap on BeejiveIM.
  

There's a lot you can do there, see the topics below.

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• Use Groups: Show your buddies grouped or in one big list.
• Hide Offline: Hide your offline buddies or display them in their own group.
• Sort By: Sort your buddies by display name or Status.

Please note, changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.

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• Preview In List: Indicates how many unread chat messages are shown on the Chats screen, per buddy.
• Chat List Transition: The type of screen transition from the chat screen to the chat list screen.
• Auto Correct: Use the iPhone's auto correct feature.
• Auto Capitalization: Capitalize the first letter when you start typing a message.
• Allow Landscape: Indicates if the chat screen switch to landscape mode when the phone is rotated.
• Emoticons: Show emoticons in chats.

Please note, changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.

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• Enable Shake: When on the chat screen, shaking the phone will switch chats.
• Shake Sensativity: Select how sensative the shake is: Light, Normal, or Hard.

Please note, changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.

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• Sent IM Sound: Play a sound when you send a message to a buddy.
• Received IM Sound: Play a sound when you receive a message from a buddy.
• Ringer When Inactive: Play a sound when the phone is locked and beejiveIM is still running to indicate a new message has been received.
• Vibrate: Vibrate when a message is sent or received.
• Sounds: Select the sounds when sending / receiveing messages. Choose from default, AIM sounds, or Yahoo sounds.

Please note, changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.

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• Buddy List Layout: Indicate how you want the buddy list shown. Buddy icons on the left (iPhone) or on the right (desktop).
• Table Divider: How the buddy list table is shown. Grey lines underneath or alternating colors.
• Chat Background: Choose the background of the chat screen: white, gray, or the striped iPhone background.
• Incoming Bubble Color: Choose the color of all incoming chat bubbles.
• Outgoing Bubble Color: Choose the color of all outgoing chat bubbles.

Please note, changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.

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• Send File: Indicate if you'd like the photo sent directly to the buddy, or posted on our server and displayed as a link in the chat.
• Save Photo: If you want photo saved after sending.

Please note, changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.

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• Auto Away: Indicate how long after you leave BeejiveIM before we set your status to "Away".
• Message: The message you'd like to show after you are auto-away.

Please note, changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.

As you probably already know, Apple does not allow applications to run in the background. What this means is once you leave BeejiveIM (to answer the phone, check email, play Super Monkey Ball) BeejiveIM is essentially turned off.

Luckily we can leave you logged into our servers for a period of time (of your choosing) so messages can still get to you when you open BeejiveIM back up. But how do you get notified of a new IM if BeejiveIM is closed?

Easy, we can send you an email. Your iPhone already notifies you when you get one of those.

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• Push Email Alert: Activate the push email alerts
• Email Address: The email address where you want the alerts to be sent.
• Exclude Disconnects: Select whether or not to receive notices when your accounts are logged off.
• Session Timeout:Select the amount of time you'd like to remain logged in after BeejiveIM is closed.

This works best if you use an email address that gets sent to the Mail application on your iPhone or iPod Touch. This works great if you use a MobileMe, Yahoo, or MS Exchange email address that gets pushed to the Mail application on your iPhone or iPod Touch.

And, if you carrier supports email to SMS conversion, you can have your email alert SMSed to you by using a carrier specific email address (like 5555551234@txt.att.net - for example). Please check your carrier for more information on how to have an email SMSed to your phone.

Please note: changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.

These settings are mainly for trouble-shooting if you are experiencing problems. Most likely you will never have to touch these settings, but here's what they do...

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• Log Level: The level of the log that records what's happening with BeejiveIM. Don't worry, this log stays on your phone unless you manually send it to us.
• Server: If you need to point to a specific BeejiveIM server, this is where that value goes. Default is to leave it empty.

Please note, changes will not take effect until the next time you open BeejiveIM.