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July 5, 2006

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Adium in beta for 1.0

Posted Jul. 5, ’06, 2:36 PM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Software

Adium 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.


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