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Derf said 3:46PM on 11-09-2006
Adium is okay. But most people prefer the ability to voice/video chat if they need to. On that note, Skype can now do both voice and video and its cross platform. In addition, it can VOIP out to landlines. It's free, cross platform and looks good too. No reason not to use this.
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Scott McNulty said 3:49PM on 11-09-2006
Derf, I have a Skype account as well, but most of my friends do not. They are living in the stone age. ;)
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mcbain said 4:08PM on 11-09-2006
What version of Skype is cross platform? I have not see this functionality.
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Brad Levinson said 4:10PM on 11-09-2006
I was a longtime user of Adium, but I grew tired of the lack of reliability in file transfers. When I got my new MacBook, I gave Chax a try. Needless to say, I've been extremely impressed, and as most of my friends use AIM, I haven't looked back.
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Plaid said 4:18PM on 11-09-2006
Perhaps I'm in a serious minority, but why wouldn't voice and video chat be a big deal to you? I mean, it's really the best thing about iChat and really the only reason I still use it over Adium.
Who wants to have a built-in iSight and have no way to use it in the one of the only applications its actually useful for?
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John said 4:21PM on 11-09-2006
screenshotting adium is a lame thing to do, considering that the application brilliantly looks completely different for each user. that said, go grab the beta and try it yourself, its very stable.
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pdiddy said 4:21PM on 11-09-2006
I really enjoy the heck out of Adium. My only regret is that it does not work on Windoz for when I'm at work.
Video doesn't matter to me. I really don't want to be on the camera.
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Daniel D said 4:32PM on 11-09-2006
Someone link to the Beta please, i was all over that site and could not find a link to actually download it. kthxbai
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Thayne Miller said 4:38PM on 11-09-2006
naw, ichat is better than adium. Once you try a 3 or 4 way video ichat, you won't go back.
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tcp said 4:45PM on 11-09-2006
Daniel, google for "adium beta" and you get this:
http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AdiumBeta
(google is your friend...)
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david said 4:46PM on 11-09-2006
the new ichat will be excellent. there won't be a reason for adium. I tried it and didn't like it. if I had to go away from ichat, i'd suggest Skype since you can chat, call, and video to anyone. my $0.02
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David said 4:47PM on 11-09-2006
I use Adium for text IM simply because I hate iChat's stupid bubbles and the way it handles your buddy list. Video chat would be nice in Adium, but I use it so rarely I don't mind switching over to iChat when I need it.
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maz said 4:49PM on 11-09-2006
Don't forget that it has OTR (off the record) built in as well. You have to turn it on in the preferences of each account but it will encrypt your chats with others that use OTR enabled clients (GAIM).
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Daniel D said 4:54PM on 11-09-2006
I would be all over iChat....if only it supported MSN
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Daniel D said 5:02PM on 11-09-2006
Thanks tcp >.>
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Mischa McLachlan said 5:02PM on 11-09-2006
I might be a minority here, but i feel that Adium is terrible software, it actually reminds me of all the reasons why i left the windows platform in the firstplace. Ugly custom user interfaces, and far too many features that i don't want or need. And the duck i'm sorry, just has to go!
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John Edgar said 5:23PM on 11-09-2006
Been using Adium since forever.. love it, I could never go back to msn for mac, or aim for mac, or anything else.. it's just so well built. Yey adium, I love thee
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cstromme said 5:24PM on 11-09-2006
If iChat supported MSN in addition to iChat and had a way to make a minimalistic userlist (without window borders and everything) like Adium I would be using that.
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Donald Burr said 5:39PM on 11-09-2006
I have friends on all of the IM services (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Skype, and yes even ICQ too - remember that one?) So having them all supported (well, with the exception of Skype of course) in one program is very handy. That way I don't have to click back and forth between 3 or 4 different IM programs. The only people I video chat with all have Macs anyway, so they use iChat, which is why I still drop into iChat every now and again, for voice/video stuff. But yeah, the Adium icon has to go. Even the Disco icon looks better than that butt-ugly duck!
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pre said 6:37PM on 11-09-2006
Adium, fix your file transfer issues and I'm all yours.
Do it. Do it.
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