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January 12, 2005
Adium to me
Ever since I bought my iMac I have been in search of a Mac compatable caht software worthy enough to replace my beloved Trillian (which they won't port to OS X). Originally I discovered two choices, Fire, which is freeware, and Proteus, which is $15 shareware that you can use on a trial basis.
I tried Fire first. It was the whole 'free' thing that sold me. the major problem with that program was that you could only have one account per type signed on at once. This just wouldn't do since I have two AIM screen names that I like to keep signed on at all times. The program was quickly dumped.
Proteus, while it did its job of combining all the IM programs (AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, etc) into one interface, that's about all it accomplished. It wasn't very configurable and there were a lot of features missing (like mail notification and being able to block people). At least I was able to sign on to all of my accounts though, so that's what I used for a long time.
Today I discovered Adium X. Although it still dosen't have all the features of Trillian, it is by far the best chat software that is available for OS X. And it's free! There are tons of extra add ons and themes that you can downoad. Yay. I am happy.
Posted by amanda at January 12, 2005 02:22 PM