Adium X
April 12th, 2004
I discovered Adium X (an IM client for OS X) from Brad Choate this morning. I have been using iChat because I didn’t really like Fire IM, but I’ve missed not being able to connect to multiple IM clients in one app. So I’ve been giving Adium X a try and so far it is excellent.
- Very customizable. It seems like just about everything is customizable in Adium. I like the borderless buddy list that can be set to varying levels of opacity.
- Tabbed message window. This is just like tabbed web browsing…you can have one chat window with individual tabs for chatting with multiple people. Seemed like I was always looking for other chat windows in iChat.
- Web-kit powered message window. If you are a CSS geek, you can customize the message window as it is totally XHTML/CSS driven.
- Log viewer with search. This is something that should have been implemented in iChat long ago.
- Multiple connections. Allows you to connect to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber plus a couple I’ve never heard of…Gadu-Gadu and Trepia.
You can see some screenshots on the about page. Adium X is available as a free download from adiumx.com