Mac Experience : Adium
Adium has been my main Instant Messaging client ever since I switched to a Mac. I used to be a fan of Yahoo Messenger because of its simple interface and features. All that changed when they kept adding unnecessary features to once a clean app making it one of the more bloated IM app around. Adium is an open-sourced multi protocol Instant Messaging client. Out of the box, it supports Yahoo Messenger, AIM, MSN, Jabber-protocol, ICQ and many others via plugins. One of the best things about Adium is that the interface is clean with all your chats appearing in a single tabbed window. You can choose to reorder the tabs or drag them out to a separate window. Unread messages will be indicated by a different colored icon on the tab, making it easy to identify the chats and reducing window clutter on your desktop.
As I’ve mentioned, Adium supports multiple protocols and allows seamless messaging to users on different networks effortlessly. However, there are limitations for some of these protocols. For example, Adium does not support Yahoo’s Imvironment feature, so you don’t get to doodle with your buddy and custom emoticon on the MSN network is not supported yet. Adium is highly extensible with its growing database of plugins for different protocols and also features a large collection of dock icons, status icons and contact list style for you to customize the look and feel of it.
Another great feature that Adium has is the customizable Event Notification. You can configure Adium to respond to certain event notification by triggering specific actions. For example, I could set a user’s online status to prompt a sticky notification and play a specific sound to notify myself or set an automated reply when I am away. If you’re using Windows, a great alternative to Adium would be Pidgin, try it today.
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One Response to “Mac Experience : Adium”
By mang0 on Sep 18, 2008 | Reply
no good no good, cannot do file transfer :p