Adium

my computer won't go into sleep mode/turn off monitor when AOL IM is open. I moved to Adium (and switch back to AOL IM to swap files)

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I was thinking it had been a couple days since we had a good browser discussion and then surprise surprise, one pops up. I use OmniWeb for all things because it is the most comfortable. It still renders things prettier than the carbon quartz but also it has things that carbon will never have. I can scroll the web page while its beneath another window (hold command and...

Have any of you tried using your mac.com username to log into the newest aol client. Well I had it, fire, and adium running all at the same time with different AIM names and of course my mac.com name. ...

I always thought Proteus disconnects when someone tries to invite you for a group chat... :p

All of you guys should really try out Proteus. Personally, I find it much better and cleaner than Adium, and to boot it has multi-service messaging support. It has lots of nice features, and it also gives Dock notifications. You can also add a menu to the menu bar to allow you to change status and see how many unread messages you have. Even when iChat comes out, I'll bet...

You also wanted file transfer and buddy icons...something Adium doesn't have nor advertise to have ;)

Well, you've got HackedAIM™, that's in the "Other" category. :p HackedAIM™ is betted than Adium, but I like the eye candy in Adium :D

I used Adium for about a month and a half, and I went back to AIM :rolleyes:

Adium all the way for me! Once you start using this program you never go back... All my convos in one window...all I gotta do is apple-arrow over to my next tab (I can no longer live without tabbed IMing), awesome status indication in the dock (shows you when buddies log on and off), automatic logging of all convos with an great built in log viewer, much more...