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Chax 2.1 Beta brings unified contact lists

by Nik Fletcher (Dec 7th, 2007)

On-the-ball readers will know that whilst Leopard brought us tabbed iChats, it was Chax - Kent Sutherland's excellent & free iChat enhancer - that initially brought us the feature in earlier versions of Apple's IM client. Avid Chax fans wondering "What's next?" will no doubt be happy to see that ...

Chax returns to Leopard, brings back Growl

by Mat Lu (Nov 14th, 2007)

Long ago, way back in the days before Leopard, the Chax plugin was a necessity for any serious iChatter. But then lo came the new cat, and iChat 4.0 brought with it many of Chax's headline features already built-in: chief among them the tabbed chat interface. But yet some things are still lacking in ...

Leopard Axing Input Managers?

by Mat Lu (Mar 24th, 2007)

There's a disturbing rumor floating around the Mac web today. According to this article at Infinite Loop, Leopard will no longer support Input Manager hacks. Input Managers allow programmers to insert code into cocoa applications, thus allowing the addition of new functionality. etc. These are ...

Chax updated to version 1.4.6, source code now available

by Laurie A. Duncan (Oct 17th, 2006)

We're fans of Chax 'round these parts. It's one of those free iChat enhancement apps that makes iChat infinitely more usable. I am so accustomed to it that I can't remember life before iChat tabs anymore... As promised last month, Chax 1.4.6 brings us some bug fixes, a handful of new features and ...

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

by David Chartier (Sep 12th, 2006)

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 ...

Chax 1.4.1 released

by David Chartier (May 4th, 2006)

One thing I love about Chax, the vital iChat plug-in, is that its developer has been reliably rolling out a good handful of new features and fixes, even with a .0.x update like this one. New features in 1.4.1 include: Growl notifications for when a user comes online, goes offline, goes idle, ...

Chax 1.4 - iChat now has tabs

by David Chartier (Mar 26th, 2006)

No, that headline is not a typo: at long last, after hoards of OS X users have cried out to Apple in vain for a feature to be added to iChat that other clients have had for what seems like a millennia (I'm Irish. I exaggerate. Sue me) - iChat now has tabs, thanks to the latest Chax update to v1.4. ...

Chax updated, adds Growl support

by David Chartier (Feb 25th, 2006)

Remember Chax, the free, feature-packed iChat plugin we found a couple weeks ago? It's received a couple of minor updates and tweaks since then, and one I thought worth mentioning was Growl support. Previously, the only way I knew of getting iChat to play with Growl was GrowliChat, a separate app ...

Spice up iChat with Chax

by David Chartier (Feb 9th, 2006)

Chax is one of those addons that makes you go "ahhh, at least someone's listening." This is a powerful, feature-packed and altogther necessary preferences plugin for iChat. The developer's site offers a lengthy list of features this fantastic plugin brings to the table, but for now, here's ...

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