Adium in beta for 1.0

Adium’s developers have posted the beta for their 1.0 release. You know what that means. We’re nearing the 1.0 release. It’s been a long road since the old days of the original Adium (surely someone else remembers it).

Improvements upcoming for 1.0 and already in the beta are:

• Major AIM, ICQ and .Mac improvements. This includes working File Transfer, and faster sign on.
• Improvements to the default look and feel of Adium. *iTunes integration is much faster, and updates as soon as the song changes.
• Added global user profile and buddy icon settings. (Personal Preferences)
• General Account improvements. Accounts can now be disabled when not in in use, and friends can now sign on from your Adium without saving their information.
• Added an Xtras manager to better handle browsing and removing Xtras.
• Major improvements in privacy settings.
• Redesigned Previous Chat (Log) Viewer
• Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later (Universal Binary)
• Full (VERY LARGE) changelog can be found here

Adium is what I think an IM client should be. iChat is great at video conferencing and all, but when it comes down to pure text chattery, it’s a little lacking.