New Chax beta with tear-off tabs, will be open sourced soon

Chax, the handy iChat plugin that offers tabbed chats and much more, has a new beta available that offers tear-off tabs for those times when you don't want to put all your ~~eggs~~ chats in one basket. Announced on the author's blog, this new version also allows exporting activity log data as HTML. Of course, various bug fixes are also included in what is technically 1.4.6 beta 2.

The author is also going to release the complete Chax source code once 1.4.6 goes official, offering iChat hackers and other Cocoa-hopefuls a little more help in their quest for creating the next killer __________.

You can download your copy of the beta from this latest blog entry.

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Source: http://www.ksuther.com/weblog/?p=27

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claytron

It's not just tabs. It's a whole fleet of other changes to iChat too. Like the extremely annoying 'Do you want to accept this message' before every new IM. Probably my favorite feature after the tabs. Plus lot's more stuff that makes using iChat much easier.

But I too wonder about the fate of Chax in Leopard....

September 12 2006 at 11:49 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sir Not Appearing in this Blog

"It would be too not-Apple to not implement something into Leopard that people have to use a hack to get."

By that line of reasoning Unsanity would be out of business.

September 12 2006 at 11:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

lak

Great app. Installed and using already. Tons of options.... it's great.

September 12 2006 at 11:41 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alexander Breen

I agree. It would be too not-Apple to not implement something into Leopard that people have to use a hack to get. Personally I'm waiting to see how the Apple design minds would do it.

September 12 2006 at 11:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Isn't the tab feature a default in Leopard's iChat? Of course, besides the other features Chax offers, I think most of its users do it for tabbed conversations.

September 12 2006 at 11:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kyp

I don't get it, what does this have to do with the showtime event? =)

September 12 2006 at 11:23 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply