Adium★
Sam Stafford (versuscom.com) is a great friend and colleague of mine, and recently made the switch to a Mac. I've invited him to do a new switcher story and contribute to the MacTake (along with Alasdair Corbett (theworldtodayblog.co.uk).When he made the move to his Mac Sam brought with him a copy of windows messenger for Mac so he could IM to his chatty buddies on his new shiny white box. Upon hearing of this I had to shake my head a little and wonder about the ethical issues of running things like boot camp, msn messenger and ms office on the Mac.
"Bah!" I said, in my polite and tactful way. "Zis is a terrible miztake! You must use Adium".
Adium ( http://www.adiumx.com/ ) is a absolutely brilliant IM (thing). It'll connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo and much more, within its shiny, well designed gui.
The level of control you have with the app is almost disturbing. You can configure everything from the messages layout, to window capacities and growl notifications. There's almost no part of the gui and behavior that you can't customize.
Best of all, Adium doesn't behave like some 'nextbestthing' to your normal IM apps. In most (in my opinion, all) cases its genuinely better and more featured packed, yet it still retains the core functionality for custom emoticons, nudges and whatever else is dreamt up.I can happily say also, that Adium's update cycle leaves none wanting, and each update really (and I mean really) packs a punch. Kudos to the dev team, and well, I love it!
Check it out:
http://www.adiumx.com/
★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Monday, March 5, 2007 7:31 PM | Links to this post
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