Adium: Quacking It’s Way To Version 1.0
I woke up this morning to a killer surprise from the Adium team. Version 1.0 of the multi-protocol open source chat application Adium!
As a regular Adium user at home I jumped straight onto the website to check out the full release details, there are over 600 enhancements and bug fixes in this release.
Adium 1.0 has been over a year and a half in development and boy was it worth it! Some of the new features include,
- New Xtras manager for bettter browsing and removing of Xtras
- Improvements to iTunes integration, updating is now much faster
- New default Xtras
- Now displays visual indications of blocked users
- Complete overhaul of the aplications icons
- New integrated Help system
- Improved Growl support
- Display name and Buddy icon can now be changed from the contact list
- Menubar duck now displays your current status
- Chat transcripts are now stored in XML format
- Message history is now much faster
- New First-run Setup Assistant
- Custom emoticons can now be received from MSN contacts
- Display name now fetched from the MSN server
- Yahoo Stealth (invisible status) support has been added
- Improved Address Book integration
- Improved AppleScript support
You check out a full list of enhancements and bug fixes in the 1.0 Changelog.
Saw this yesterday, if only it had voice and video support.
Adium is a fantastic app, it really shows what open source can accomplish.
I love Adium! I just couldn’t live without it.
I’ve been using the beta version quite long now, because of Xblaze, and I love it.
Especially the new Xtras manager.
whp, I totally agree. It’s a fantastic app but in future, voice and video support would be great. Thats all it’s missing.
I love the duck
I’ve been using the beta for quite a while now and I love it! I love the fact that it doesn’t take forever to login anymore and I love how file transfer now works
. I also agree that voice and video would be nice, but I’m sure it’s coming!
Voice and video would be very nice indeed, but it looks like nobody with the necessarily skillset is around. I remember a post a while back on the Adium blog about what exactly they need to start work on voice and video, and it’s quite a task. It’s a shame that voice and video could keep people away from Adium and stuck with iChat. I don’t know what I would do if I was forced to use iChat- Adium meets so many more of my needs.
Its nice to finally have a stable release. I was using the beta for a while. Glad its finally out of beta
Is http://www.robberthamburg.nl Craig’s website? I’m confused why this article is word for word the same as the one on the above mentioned site…
Rebby, I’m not too sure. That is very strange. This article was finished around 7 hours ago, and when Craig sent it to me it was different from how it is above, I made some edits, deleted a few lines of text, and set it to publish.
If this is not Craig’s site, it has been directly copied from the page – I know this due to the edits I made before publishing.
You’re a day late.
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