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Adium X - 1.1

multi-protocol instant messaging client

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 1.1:	(4.3)
Selected Version:	1.1
Release Date:	2007-08-12
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.1):	3,534
Downloads (all versions):	366,169

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Product Description:

Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won't look back.

Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.

What's new in this version:

Summer of Code 2006 Changes

Rewritten tabs using PSMTabBarControl (Kent Sutherland, mentored by David Smith)
Tabs can now be oriented vertically or horizontally (#3372)
Tabs handle overflow better, by showing a “chevron�? (») pop-up menu (#12)
Improved drag & drop behavior with tabs (#2555)
Improved tab length calculation (#6775)
Tabs can display the number of unread messages Contact List
- Horizontal autosizing of the contact list is now more accurate (#6618)
- Added an animated transition for contact list sorting (#5633)
- Hi, LH. Xtras
  - StatusItem can now be customized via .AdiumMenuBarIcons AdiumXtras (#7237)
  - Improved Adiumy emoticon text equivalents (#6327)
  - Custom menu bar icons are now preserved when upgrading to a new version of Adium (#6972)
  - Multi-state menu bar icon options (#4905)
  - Detailed menu bar status is now optional via menu bar xtras (#4532)
  - Added a %messageClasses% keyword to message view styles?, allowing greatly improved CSS selector targetting
  User Interface
  - Automatically remember buddy list positioning when plugging in external monitors (#5583)
  - The menu bar icon now updates with a badge when a custom available message is selected (#4924)
  - Added a "Show Contact List" item to StatusItem (#772)
  - Corrected a slight visual misalignment in StatusItem (#4419)
  - Added a separator line underneath "All" in transcript viewer (#5129)
  - Toolbar button to send nudge/buzz (notification) (#6635)
  - Added events for nudge/buzz (notification)
  - Clarified UI to show that logging needs to be on for message history to work (#6682)
  - Move Accounts to the left of the prefs window (#6190)
  File Transfer
  - Fixed resolving of aliases for file transfers (#6601)
  Chat Transcripts
  - Usernames are now shown in the chat transcript viewer (#6760, #6866)
  Misc.
  - There is no longer an invisible window when Exposé is active and the contact list is offscreen (#6397)
  - Adium now handles disconnecting when AirPort is turned off more gracefully (#6466)
  - Improved determination of network availability when waking from sleep (#5678)
  - Added an iChat importer (#6698)
  - Improved display of idle times when somebody is really, really idle (#1347)
  - The time zone now updates while Adium is running (#5383)
  - Group chats no longer attempt to send files dropped on the message text field (#7133)
  - Drag & drop of .textClipping files is now handled properly (#6929)
  - When responding to an authorization request, adding the contact to your contact list now uses the correct account (#6977)
  - Updated sound playing to be more likely to work on future versions of Mac OS X (#5636)
  - Added grace period following closing of message window during which a new autoreply will not be sent if they message you again (#4849)
  - The cursor now reappears when sending a message, as well as when moving the mouse (#5651)
  - Attempting to delete multiple saved statuses at once only deletes one (#6608)
  - Appearance preferences now include MenuBarIcons (#6335)
  - When Adium is run from the installation disk image, we now offer to install it. Thanks to Google for donating the code for this feature.
  - Updated to libpurple 2.1.0
  Dock
  - Dock icon (.AdiumIcon) Xtras now work correctly with case-sensitive HFS+ (#176)
  Performance and Memory
  - Fixed leaks in outgoing messages in DirectConnect chats (#6982)
  - Temporary files are now deleted sooner than in 1.0.x (for example, when closing a chat) (#6732)
  - Removed all remaining calls to QuickDraw APIs, improving performance (#5770)
  - Improved smoothness of ContactList hiding animation in the Regular Window style (#6396)
  Service-specific Updates
  
  Oscar (AIM, ICQ and .Mac)
  - Corrected handling of different inline images with the same name (#5493)
  - Support embedded iTunes link when using the iTunes status on AIM (#3152)
  - DirectConnect requests are now automatically accepted for contacts on your contact list (#700, #5934)
  - Improved display of the error message when attempting to send a message that's too large for AIM (#6469)
  - Fixed login with AIM for certain screennames which were previously AOL names (#2013)
  - Fixed the "Unable to format screen name" error on ICQ (#6533)
  Jabber (includes Google Talk and LiveJournal Talk)
  - Added (some) support for xmpp: URIs (#6541)
  - Fixed a crash when retrieving a user icon over XMPP (Jabber) (#7240)
  - Quit yo Jibba Jabba
  - Corrected client information (#7256)
  Bonjour
  - Bonjour contacts are no longer marked as online after signing off (#5992)
  MSN
  - Added support for right-to-left messages (#5431)

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.1:
Overall Rating:	(4.3)	Features:	(4.0)	Support:	(4.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.3)	Price:	(5.0)

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Warning, upgrade can cause problems... - Version: 1.3, 8/27/2008 07:37AM PST

tournstone

1,3 upgrade seems to kill some third party plug ins. Xblaze for instance no longer works with this version.

Big upgrade - Version: 1.3, 8/26/2008 10:59AM PST

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VT Username

As can be seen from the very long change list, this is a pretty big upgrade that adds lots of features, fixes lots of bugs, and makes a lot of UI refinements. One of my favorite new features is the upgraded MSN library, which, among other changes, adds support for personal messages.

Still looking forward to a/v features being added, and the documentation could stand a lot of improvement (yes, I'm one of those folks who actually reads the docs...) but other than that, Adium is great.

The Best - Version: 1.3, 8/26/2008 07:08AM PST