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Adium: Quacking It’s Way To Version 1.0

adiumlogo.pngI 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.

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    wph said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    Saw this yesterday, if only it had voice and video support.
    Adium is a fantastic app, it really shows what open source can accomplish.

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    Niklas Nisen said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    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.

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    Glenn Wolsey said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 2:59 pm

    whp, I totally agree. It’s a fantastic app but in future, voice and video support would be great. Thats all it’s missing.

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    Ralph Dagza said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 3:07 pm

    I love the duck

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    Sherb said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 4:09 pm

    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 :D. I also agree that voice and video would be nice, but I’m sure it’s coming!

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    Richard said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 5:00 pm

    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.

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    Jeremy said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 5:32 pm

    Its nice to finally have a stable release. I was using the beta for a while. Glad its finally out of beta

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    Rebby Brarbs said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 5:53 pm

    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…

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    Glenn Wolsey said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    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.

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    Andre said on

    February 3rd, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    You’re a day late. ;)

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