Adium

Adium is extremely customizable, works like a charm, and brings way more options to your chats than the OS X standard, iChat.

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Adium: Pronounced like “stadium”, Adium is a free, powerful multi-protocol instant messaging client that connects to everything from AIM and Google Talk to Facebook Chat, MySpace Chat, and everything in between.

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Another feature that apparently is not new but has never previously showed up in Adium for me is a grammar check, which underlines your sad chat-ified grammar missteps.

Adium Chat Improves Menu Bar Item, Corrects Your IM Grammar | Lifehacker Australia 2008

That said, the client has a smooth look to it, and, while Adium is the well-tested standard for multi-protocol chat on Macs, if you’re familiar with Trillian on Windows, you’ll probably enjoy the Cocoa-ed version seen here.

Trillian Alpha Brings Its Multi-Protocol IM To Macs | Lifehacker Australia 2010

My fourth-grade daughter who is in the throes of this tech-talking time with her friends, considers my husband and me strict, since we haven't green-lighted the IMing yet (still investigating safest course and while there is one okay option for mac users called Adium, we are a PC family and there is not such a child-friendly system for us) and are adamant that the cell phone she can't live without just doesn't need to happen for a while.

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Other applications such as Adium are also affected by the vulnerability.

Wilders Security Forums 2009

I'm a freelance designer, so if I'm working on something, I usually have it filling up the whole of my external 20 "monitor, it might be a few windows of code (XHTML and CSS) or a PS document, or a Numbers spreadsheet, and on my 15" MBP display I have Webkit and Adium.

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I have keyboard shortcuts now which let me snap a window neatly and instantly to the left half, the right half (great for consulting a pdf while writing in a word processor), the left 70%, the right 30% (great for having Adium or Tweetie neatly fill in the "lost" widescreen space next to a Safari window), or to fill the screen.

RightZoom Makes The OS X Maximise Button More Like Windows | Lifehacker Australia 2009

I also have Meteorologist giving me the weather, my alarm clock, Skype, and Adium.

The Minimalist OS X Desktop | Lifehacker Australia 2009

If he liked the Adium skin, he'd go and grab/install that.

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