Blog | mechdrew » trillian http://www.mechdrew.com Yeah, whatever. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:53:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Adium Beta for Mac – Simply Amazing! http://www.mechdrew.com/2009/12/27/adium-beta-for-mac-simply-amazing/ http://www.mechdrew.com/2009/12/27/adium-beta-for-mac-simply-amazing/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:57:19 +0000 mechdrew http://www.mechdrew.com/?p=90 Adium logoI’ve know about Adium for a while. Adium allows you to have an instant message (IM) chat with most major chat clients such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Google Talk and Yahoo! Messenger. If you are familiar with Trillian you have a good idea what Adium is all about. Another cool feature about Adium is it can also connect to Facebook Chat and, in the latest beta releases, can update and track your Twitter account. It’s kind of like a Swiss army knife for instant messaging.

I just barely got back into the craze of online chat. Years ago my family and I used Yahoo! Messenger to keep in touch with my brother while he served in Iraq. We were on dial-up trying to video chat, but it worked okay. Since then I haven’t had much use for instant messaging, but recently I found it useful for collaborating and tech support. Since I started using Twitter yesterday (yes, yesterday) I found the beta helpful for tweeting from the desktop without needing another app or browser window open. The beta is really stable, so if you want to enable Twitter support visit the Adium Beta page to download the latest release. And remember: it’s free!

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