- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.6
- Date added: November 04, 2009
- Total Downloads: 164,172
- Downloads last week: 773
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 60 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
One of the most popular and customizable third-party clients in the multi-service chat category continues to impress. It supports multiple services, including AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, and Napster. Part of what made the original Adium so attractive was its multitude of options, which still forms the core of this client.
This latest version is a big upgrade adding several features, fixing numerous minor bugs, and offers several refinements to the interface. Under the hood, the program is now powered by the same open-source core as multi-platform client Pidgin. Despite some file-sharing quirks, Adium X is a must-download for those looking to connect with multiple services.
Publisher's description
From Adam Iser :Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won't look back.
Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.
What's new in this version:
- Updated pidgin-facebook chat, fixing login.
- Corrected the Events preferences not displaying the correct list on Snow Leopard.
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