The guys who created Adium have come up with a winner. In a world where IM’s are the single biggest source of office inefficiency, Adium is the ultimate downfall for office efficiency. Supporting almost all IM formats currently available to the masses, Adium is the Swiss knife of IMs.
Besides, being an all-in-one IM, Adium also comes feature packed with an ace interface, cute quack alert sounds, Off-The-Record (OTR) encryption, tabbed messaging and file transfers.
Adium uses WebKit to display messages in a customisable format. It uses plug-in bundles called WebKit Message View Styles, containing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that tell the WebKit Message View how to render the message. WebKit styles are available in plenty from the Adium Xtras website.
The best part? Adium is donationware, making installation free unless you choose to contribute to the guys who have worked hard at bringing us one of the best IMs yet.
Supported formats:
- AOL Instant Messenger (Including ICQ and .Mac)
- Jabber (Including Google Talk)
- MSN Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan)
- Bonjour (Compatible with iChat)
- Gadu-Gadu
- Novell Groupwise
- Lotus Sametime
Supported languages:
- Catalan
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Japanese
- Norwegian
- Russian
- Simplified Chinese
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Traditional Chinese
“Get chatting today!”