AdiumX
If you've never tried Adium, and iChat or the OSX port of AIM really annoys you, its seriously worth a look. It was my client of choice for a long, long time. Done by Adam Iser I believe, it had tabs, clean UI, and solid, resource-conscious code. Looking at its code versus another project like Fire is a bit sad. It was really best of breed.
I lost track of it for various reasons, mostly because the original author stopped development and i was trying to make do with a bunch of the multi-protocol clients out there, which all suck.
A random passed on a link to a new project called AdiumX. Cool. They're taking the old code and moving to backend based on Gaim. It's rough in a lot of areas, and isn't quite what the old Adium used to be. But it's interesting and has a lot of promise, and it supports the Address Book. It's really worth a look.
I also got pointed to this plugin, which logs your Adium chats to a PostgreSQL database. Slick. As. Hell.
Also of note on that site is this MP3 on their music page which I swear for a second had me wondering if I was listening to an old undiscovered Pixies track. But I could just have pixies on the brain due to the rumors of a reunion that are springing up everywhere.
They also have this nifty picture, which makes me laugh. Hard. I'm not sure why.
Posted by drunkenbatmanJanuary 23, 2004, at 12:50 AM
