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Adium – Free Instant Messenger for Mac OS X

Coming from the world of Windows, I found Trillian to be one of the best Collective Instant Messenger which can connect to Yahoo! Pager, MSN Messenger, AIM, ICQ, IRC. The pro version (Pro is the paid version) sport the Rendezvous option where you can have server less messenger within a close intranet. When I shifted to the Apple Mac, my requirement for a universal/collective Instant Messenger was the utmost need and Adium came to my rescue. I never looked back after using Adium.

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM (ICQ and .Mac), Jabber (including Google Talk), MSN, Yahoo, Bonjour (Compatible with iChat), Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise and Lotus Sametime. Adium X requires Mac OS X 10.2.7 (“Jaguar”) or later; Mac OS X 10.4 (“Tiger”) or Mac OS X 10.3.9 (“Panther”) is recommended. Adium X 0.88 and later are Universal applications which run natively on both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macintosh computers.

For those who want to tweak around and jazz up Adium, it can be done through the Adium Xtras. At the time of writing this article, the current Adium Stable version is 0.89.1 whereas the Beta is at 1.0b5.

Comments 7

  1. Sudheer wrote:

    Excellent information. I am in the same dilemma too. I just purchased MacBook Pro to get away from Windows but I loved my Trillian. I will check out Adium and see how good it is. Thanks.

    Posted 01 Dec 2006 at 7:49 pm
  2. woojin kim wrote:

    Test Drivers…

    Posted 05 Dec 2006 at 7:50 pm
  3. Joan wrote:

    will Adium extract those people whose addresses are yahoo, aol, msn or whatever and who can, therefore, instant message?  Thanks, joan

    Posted 13 Jun 2008 at 5:20 pm
  4. Joan wrote:

    Extract them automatically, I meant? Or do you have to enter each contact individually?

    Posted 13 Jun 2008 at 5:21 pm
  5. Brajeshwar wrote:

    @Joan Adium will extract your Buddies, friends from your IM (MSN, Yahoo!, AIM etc) as soon as you sign in with your own IM ID. You do not need to enter your friend’s list individually.

    Posted 16 Jun 2008 at 7:48 am
  6. ki wrote:

    i hav a mac n cnt seem to find a msn messenger to use webcam…does adium let u use webcam?

    Posted 03 Jan 2009 at 3:43 am
  7. kbullano@comcast.net wrote:

    I want to install icq in my mac which I did but then now it is saying their is an error & it is not connecting.

    Posted 28 Nov 2009 at 11:35 pm

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