Adium Reaches 1.0
My favorite OS X AIM client, Adium, has finally reached 1.0 after being in beta for over six months (I wrote about Beta 1 way back in July). I'm been using Adium since I first got a Mac way back in 2002, when Adium 1.6.2 ruled the world.
That's not a typo, the current, Adium X 1.0, is actually version 2.0. When the developers decided 2.0 would be a complete rewrite, they instead appended an "X" to the application's name and set their sights on a new 2.0.
I was just wondering when Adium would leave beta after receiving an upgrade notification for Beta 42 (!). Here are some of the major changes from 0.89 (the complete list is here):
- Added global user profile and buddy icon settings. (Personal Preferences)
- General Account improvements. Accounts can now be disabled when not in in use, and friends can now sign on from your Adium without saving their information.
- Added an Xtras manager for better browsing and removing of Xtras.
- Major improvements in privacy settings.
- Improvements to the default look and feel of Adium.
- iTunes integration is much faster, and updates as soon as the song changes.
- Redesigned Chat Transcript (Log) Viewer
- Optional dock-like hiding of the contact list
- Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later (Universal Binary)
I doubt I'll see many day-to-day changes since I've been keeping up with the betas, but for those of you running 0.89, this is sure to be a worthwhile upgrade.
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