AOL Instant Messanger Ad-Remover?

[HECTORdaBIZATCH]

Has anybody made/seen a patch to remove the ads from the latest version of AOL Instant Messanger for OS X (4.5.651)?

[dricci]

Nope. You should check out 3rd party clones like Adium and Fire, etc. Do a search on Version Tracker, or just wait for iChat in a few months.

BTW: you can log into AIM with your @mac.com address

[phatsharpie]

I need multi-network chat capabilities, and I find Fire to be the best for my needs. You really should check it out.

[HECTORdaBIZATCH]

I've used Fire, Proteus, and Adium... they're all great except none of them support file transfer (which I use a lot).

...anyway, anybody else know anything?

I know there was at one point a patch for an earlier OS X version of AIM, but I haven't seen it in months.

[Fahrvergnuugen]

why use file transfer through AIM?
setup a drop box that can be accessed by ftp, afp, or smb. It works so much better!

[and btw, PC users can be given a link like ftp://ftp.domain.com/ and it should launch in IE and give them drag and drop ftp access to your mac]

[HECTORdaBIZATCH]

Not that setting up FTP is incredibly difficult, but it is more of a hassle than using AIM (I've got to create a user, turn FTP on, poke another hole through my firewall--which i don't really want to do)...

Anyway, I don't need to be convinced not to use AOL's client. I have decided to... I just want to know if there's a patch out there.

...sounds like there isn't (or at least nobody knows about it).

[HECTORdaBIZATCH]

Yay-- I found what I was looking for.

If anyone else is interested, check this out:

http://www.macslash.com/articles/02/05/09/1535230.shtml

[spitty27]

it doesnt work! the link, well at least not in omniweb, lemme try explorer