Adium. It is an instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple instant messaging protocols thanks to Libpurple, the library on which it is based. It is written in Cocoa and is free software , released under the GNU | GPL General Public License, and free. Its official mascot is called Adiumy, and it is a kind of green bird.
Summary
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- 1 History
- 2 Features
- 3 Supported protocols
- 4 Sources
History
Adium was created by university student Adam Iser , and the first version, “Adium 1.0”, released in September 2001 , only supported AIM . Adium’s version numbers have since followed a somewhat unusual pattern. There were several improvements for Adium 1.0, ending in Adium 1.6.2c. At this point, the Adium team began a complete rewrite of the Adium code, expanding it to a multiprotocol messaging program. Pidgin’s libpurple library (renamed “libgaim”) was implemented to add support for protocols other than AIM – since then the Adium team has mainly worked on the GUI. The Adium team intended to release these changes as “Adium 2.0”. However, Adium was later renamed “Adium X” and released as version 0.50, being considered “halfway to a 1.0 product”. 0.88 adium X was the first compiled version as a universal binary, allowing run natively on Macs processor Intel .
features
- OTR encryption system
- Tabbed conversations
- File transfer
- Webkit Message Display
Supported protocols
- AOL Instant Messenger
- Windows Live Messenger
- Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan )
- ICQ
- Bonjour (Compatible with iChat )
- XMPP ( Google Talk , …)
- MobileMe
- Gadu-Gadu
- Novell Groupwise
- Lotus sametime
- Live Journal Talk
- MySpace IM
- SIP / SIMPLE
- Zephy
