Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Adium 1.0.4 Review

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Apple's built in iChat is a great way to stay in touch with your friends or colleagues, but sometimes feels as if it's missing something. The freeware (and open source) Adium client gives users another excellent option which adds oft requested features including tabbed chats, encryption, and much more customizable chat appearances. Although iChat allows encrypted chats between .Mac users, Adium allows point to point encryption between any two Adium users regardless of network. This is a great benefit since most chatting protocols send every message in plaintext across the network making them easy to intercept (especially on public wireless access points).

One of the few features Adium is missing is easy to use voice and video chatting, although the latest versions do include SIP support which should enable this (unclear how to setup). But aside from this, Adium works well and is a good option to try out. Adium supports AIM, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo, .Mac, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, ICQ, LiveJournal, Lotus Sametime, Novell GroupWise, QQ, SIP, and Zephyr. Also, with such a cute little duck icon, who can resist giving it a try?

*****

Monday, June 18, 2007

WWDC 2007

The Apple World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) was an amazing week spent learning more about Apple technologies for Leopard.

I'd highly recommended this event to all Mac OS X developers - though expensive, it's worth the cost.  More photos from WWDC 2007 are available on the Chimoosoft Flickr page.

Monday, June 11, 2007

WWDC 2007

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Sorry, no review this week or next due to preparation for and attendance at the Apple World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) which takes place next week. Check back the week of June 18th.

Update: the conference was amazing - and amazingly tiring! Next review will be posted around the 25th.