Adium supports other services

Orbit · #1 January 10th, 2004, 10:47 PM

Adium now supports all other popular services well atleast the alpha versions do

its great i love it

soon as more features are added it will be perfect

voice- · #2 January 11th, 2004, 10:50 PM

NICE! I lubed Adium until iChat took over my AIM time. MSN support might bring back the good ol' days.

~~NeYo~~ · #3 January 12th, 2004, 04:04 AM

does it do AIM file transfer yet? I only really use AIM, and i loved Adium, but i NEED File transfer!

wtmcgee · #4 January 12th, 2004, 09:09 AM

kind of hit or miss right now. it's coming along really quickly though.

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Originally Posted by ~~NeYo~~

does it do AIM file transfer yet? I only really use AIM, and i loved Adium, but i NEED File transfer!

**fryke** · #5 January 12th, 2004, 09:11 AM

What - other than supporting other services, which I'm not interested in - makes it better than, say, iChat?

kainjow · #6 January 12th, 2004, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by fryke

What - other than supporting other services, which I'm not interested in - makes it better than, say, iChat?

I tried out one of the alphas, but sadly I'm a little disappointed with the new version. I think the original had a better interface. One major feauture it has over iChat is tabbed messaging, but it's not that great. I'll stick with iChat for a while since it has better buddy icon support and file transfer support.

MikeXpop · #7 January 12th, 2004, 02:35 PM

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Originally Posted by fryke

What - other than supporting other services, which I'm not interested in - makes it better than, say, iChat?

Everything. God, there's nothing to not like about adium 2.0. All these extra features, (real) status circles, TABS, clean, better interface, transparent borderlist budd list, buddy notifications. Lots of other stuff. Treat yourself and download it.

boi · #8 January 12th, 2004, 11:54 PM

adium is teh koool.

(note: preview's jpg compression is not teh koool).

adium has a bazillion features and preferences, but they're not all in front of you. the 'hidden' preferences are under the advanced tab. neat.

you can receive file transfers, but not send them. they're working on it. it's got full support for buddy icons and the such. remember, adium 2 is an ALPHA. i believe the latest version crashes when you try and edit buddies.
the developers are really cool guys. check out www.adiumx.com. i've been following the project for a good long while (oh, say, ever since the first binaries).

it's got an itunes plugin for parsing away messages, idle messages or profiles ("i am listening to %_track by %_artist"). it's got an event bezel, fully customizable for login/outs/idles/aways/messages.
the tabbed interface is amazing. dragging tabs around is so much fun. the tabs even have typing/idle/away notifications. when a user goes away, his away message shows up in your chat window. the contact list mouse-overs must be seen to be believed. it's got contact alerts that are fully customizable to a crazy degree. it's also got address book integration (import and export).

it supports msn, jabber, aim, icq, and some other stuff (sorta. they're still working on it. alpha-- remember?)

it's really a community effort. if you have an idea, a UI change, etc. the developers are really responsive.

i promise i'm not working on adium myself. i'm not even a member of their messageboard, but i believe the adium project is an amazing project that is coming along great, that's why i'm sticking up for it. i used ichat for awhile, even while following adium, but as of november or so, i switched over to adium. neato.