I spend some time using IRC Clients to access the #Twitlive channel for Leo Laporte’s live.twit.tv live channel.  So far my favorite IRC client on the Mac is XChat Aqua.  It’s simple and very customizable, which is what you want in an IRC chat client. All I really need or want is the ability to connect to a server easily and the ability to customize the color and font size. What else do you really need?

Another cool IRC Client is Chatzilla, which is an add-on to the Firefox Browser. After installing this add-on it plops itself in the “Tools Menu”.

Give them both a go and let me know what you think. IRC is old school but man did they do it right! No muss no fuss!