Adium

Adium is an instant messaging client for Mac OS X supporting multiple protocols through the gaim library (software). It is written using OS X's Cocoa (software) Application Programming Interface, and it is released under the open source GNU General Public License. Adium was originally created by a college student named Adam Iser, and the first version, 1.0, was released in September 2001. The next version—originally slated to be called Adium 2.0 but then renamed to Adium X—is a complete rewrite of the code of the 1.x series, and implements such features as support for more Instant messaging protocols (such as ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Jabber) using libgaim. Most of the work on libgaim itself is done by the gaim team; the Adium team mostly works on the Adium X graphical user interface (GUI). The latest version, 0.82, was officially released on June 17, 2005 and is a minor update to the 0.8 major update. The previous major update was 0.7; changes included a rewrite of the contact list code, support for grouping contacts into "meta-contacts", and better support for group chats. Many software bugs were also fixed. (Notices about updates, as well as general information about the project, can be found on the project's homepage.) In 0.8, new features were added, such as file transfer windows, a new events system, a prepackaged version of the Growl, Off-the-record messaging. Napster support was removed in this version. ==Protocols== Adium X supports the following account types: *AOL Instant Messenger *Bonjour (protocol) (formerly Rendezvous) *Gadu-Gadu *ICQ *Jabber *Lotus Sametime *.Mac *MSN Messenger *Novell Groupwise *Yahoo! Japan *Yahoo! Messenger *Zephyr protocol ==See also== *List of instant messengers *Comparison of instant messengers ==External links== *[http://www.adiumx.com Adium X] – official website *[http://www.adiumxtras.com/ Adium X(tras)] – plug-ins ("Xtras") *[http://forums.adiumx.com Official Adium Forums] AIM clients Jabber clients Free Mac OS-only software Mac OS-only instant messengers

Adium

This page is just a free advert for the software, it is not an encyclopedia article. I'm going to point it out on votes for deletion, so get your act together or expect to see it gone. It's also not important enough to warrant a link on the Mac OS X page, sorry. User:GRAHAMUK 11:45, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC) : I'm afraid that I don't understand what you dislike about this page. A quick search revealed others quite like it, for other instant messengers: Trillian (instant messenger), Fire (instant messenger), MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, iChat, many of which are far more ad-like than this one. : If you would like to contact one of the Adium developers, head to http://www.adiumx.com/development.php . Starting with a nice request and suggestions on how to make this entry more encyclopaedic, instead of a hostile demand, would be a great way to improve this entry. -- David dchoby98, Adium Developer :: Just a note: GRAHAMUK's comment, the one David was referring to, was about a previous version of the page, and Adium has since been rewritten. --User:Bdesham 19:29, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC) == Background == Adium is an Open_source multi-platform, multi-service Instant_messaging program available for Mac OS X. Its messaging services implementation is provided by the open source Gaim library, popular on Linux. Adium is a highly customizable IM application, written by a team and community that have clearly taken to the medium and activity of Instant Messaging. It incorporates features resurrected from IRC (eg recalling previous message history), tabbed chat windows borrowed from Mozilla, and altogether original innovations like meta contacts (combining several IM accounts in your contacts list into a single entity). While lacking in the A/V conferencing features offered by Apple's Ichat (the Mac's default IM program), Adium provides an ad-free, fully customizable, and very poweruser-friendly IM experience to Mac users; particularly those that conduct multiple chats simultaneously. == Adium is NOT AdiumX == Adium is a seperate program than AdiumX. AdiumX is the rewrite of Adium. Shouldn't this page talk about the original Adium? : For the purposes of this article, we're considering Adium [original] and AdiumX to be two versions of the same program. Breaking the information into two articles wouldn't really leave enough content in either article, IMO. --User:Bdesham 20:16, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC) ==Version number== The article says that the last release was 0.77 / February 18, 2005, but the [http://www.adiumx.com/history.html official version history] says 0.76 (1/30/2005). --User:Ellmist 06:33, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC) : This has been fixed, sometimes that page isn't updated immediately.

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