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Adium 1.2, the duck has landed.
Flying out of beta status, Adium 1.2 made a full-fledged public release today. And we were just talking about the beta release right before Christmas... Starting with an improved menubar item and account management features, the new features and bugfixes in 1.2 get too numerous for this post, so be sure to head for the Adium blog to find out what's new.
I will go ahead and mention one improvement that I'm personally excited about: AppleScript support has been improved in the new build and we'll be seeing outside projects interfacing with Adium more easily now. Non-U.S. users will also want to take a fresh look at 1.2 as it now sports over a dozen localizations.
Adium 1.2 is free and available for download!
Thanks Samuel & Thomas!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Victor Agreda Jr said 11:13PM on 1-05-2008
Long live the duck!
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zebrum said 11:23PM on 1-05-2008
Erm there is a bug with the size of the chat window text box shrinking on it's own when you type a long entry. That's new. Doh!
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Alex said 12:04AM on 1-06-2008
I'm experiencing this as well. Hope it gets fixed pronto... very annoying!
Pete Zich said 2:37AM on 1-06-2008
I think it's supposed to be a feature, but it's really irritating.
brandon said 3:46AM on 1-06-2008
agreed!
another update necessary?
ramond said 11:53AM on 1-06-2008
Cool they quickly fixed it and now we just need to wait on 1.2.1 to be released:
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/8759
yay4moocows said 11:47PM on 1-05-2008
The new features are great, but I've had 3 crashes in the past hour of using it.
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Keith said 12:10AM on 1-06-2008
Best improvement/bug-fix of the 1.2 update :-)
"Got David a gerbil (#7278)"
http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/7278
http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AdiumVersionHistory
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Dan Parmelee said 12:49AM on 1-06-2008
I'm sticking with iChat 4.0 for now. Adium just doesn't offer anything vastly better.
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Kerry said 12:54AM on 1-06-2008
Adium = consolidated buddy list, MSN support. Not having 4-5 different windows for buddy lists is a major improvement in my book. Before, I had Yahoo, MSN, and iChat for Jabber and AOL and .Mac.
I also like the Growl support for Adium.
potato said 12:54AM on 1-06-2008
Dan: Like supporting MSN? :) Sorry, I love iChat and all, but it doesn't use ANY of the IM protocols that my friends and colleagues use... It's quite the useless app for me.
1.2 is working well for me so far, but I still cannot believe MSNP14 support failed to make the cut, again. How many years has it been since MS introduced offline messaging in MSN? We still don't have that feature! Libpurple has a working MSNP14 implementation, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why it's not part of the newest libpurple builds, nor Adium.
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Huy said 1:22AM on 1-06-2008
I wish that Adium would support MSN personal messages.
This is a major drawback, keeping me from switching.
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James Madley said 1:52AM on 1-06-2008
They were hoping to include it with this release but the libpurple guys haven't finished it yet.
Allister said 2:08AM on 1-06-2008
"Non-U.S. users will also want to take a fresh look at 1.2 as it now sports over a dozen localizations."
Err, yeah. Like nobody else in the world speaks English?
BTW, when are we going to get this single, unified messaging concept working? Ever?
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Brett Terpstra said 2:25AM on 1-06-2008
Sorry, poorly phrased. Non-English would have been more appropriate.
Brett Terpstra said 2:27AM on 1-06-2008
And that should have been non-English-speaking, given I'm non-English myself. It's 1:30 in the morning...
Zac West said 2:53PM on 1-07-2008
"Err, yeah. Like nobody else in the world speaks English?"
There's different localizations of English (Great Britain, Australia, Canada).
Vineet Shah said 2:32AM on 1-06-2008
I love how it shows the number of unread IMs in the menu bar at the top.
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Bruce said 4:16AM on 1-06-2008
I'm interested in the applescript comments. OK, cool that it has improved applescript support. But what are some great examples of how this feature can be used? I have trouble thinking of any.
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Optimus Rhyme said 7:08AM on 1-06-2008
My biggest annoyance with Adium has been that when I delete someone from my list it removes them from Adiums list but not MSN's. I got told my biddy list was full last month when I only had 104 people in it.
I have to go in via the official client and painstakingly delete each unwanted contact one by one (no multiple deletes in the Mac official client).
Such a pain!
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