An updated ICQ is now available to all you IM whores out there. ICQ is pretty much the standard in instant messaging, though in the last year they had fallen a tad behind Yahoo! IM, and AIM in the area of features.

Well, now ICQ is updated and looks more AIM-like than ever before (go figure, they’re owned by AOL). Now ICQ can insert graphical smileys and other such errata. Taranis will be happy to hear that ICQ now includes a spellchecker. Now he won’t have to constantly crack open is Jetteva-to-English dictionary.