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Freeware February: Adium X

by Barb Dybwad Feb 8th 2005 at 3:21PM

Adium logo Today’s installation of Freeware February brings you Adium X, a free multi-protocol chat client licensed under the GNU General Public License. It supports all the chat protocols you’ve heard of and a good smattering of those you haven’t: AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, Rendezvous, Yahoo! Japan, Gadu-Gadu, Jabber, Napster, Lotus Sametime, and Novell GroupWise.

Two of my favorite things about Adium: 1) Tabbed chats. No more digging through a forest of windows to find the right conversation. At this point, I pretty much want everything to be tabbed, unlike the browser which must not be named. 2) Its dock icon is a duck that quacks when your buddies log on or off. And what could be more fun than a little quack in your day now and again, in case you’re ever in danger of forgetting that life is, indeed, random.



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Pariah S. Burke

Cool beans, Barb! Muchos gracias for the pointer! Now I'm not stuck chatting solely on my PC any more.

February 14 2005 at 4:39 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
peeweejd

you should also check out the scripts. You can have scripts that insert the current itunes track, put a random "yo momma joke" and many other things. There is one thing about iChat that I havent been able to get over yet. That is the baloon on the menubar that shows teh contact list. I wish the Adium devs would put that in.

February 09 2005 at 3:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ludwig

Thanks for the tip, by far the coolest chat client i have seen, with endless extras to choose from. Mind I was a long time user of Fire (which is also a very noteworthy client) until I saw this posting. I mean how can you resist havin a duck in your dock.

February 08 2005 at 6:48 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oliver

my favourite thing about AdiumX is the way you can completely customise the message list window. the possibilities are literally endless.

February 08 2005 at 3:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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