Monday, 21 April 2008

Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk, Jabber, all-in-one: ADIUM

There are so many sites with free accounts of e-mail, and at the same time they offer instant messaging, ending up in not knowing what to do with so many "messengers" that imply "x" windows in the desktop.

I was a little tired of that, above all because the functionalities of the messenger of MSN for Mac very are limited. My brother kept telling me to test Adium. Before that I tested other messengers for Mac but they did not convince me. And although having Yahoo IIM allowed videochat, was not the best solution, because the friends that used Yahoo were not the ones that I was going to use the video with.

Determined that the webcam serves only with the family and closest people, I have limited it to Skype. And for all my other accounts of messaging, I have finally switched to Adium.

It lets you to configure accounts of Gtalk (Google), of Yahoo, of AOL, of. Mac, of MSN, of Jabber, Zephir, ICQ, and even a SIP/SIMPLE account (I suppose it should function with a SIP or VoIP server but him I have not tested it).
AdiumCuentas
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It has many extras, as different formats for the chat window (mine is now Modern Bubbling) and even for the Contact List (here using Decay).
AdiumChat
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AdiumContactosModernBubbling
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