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Adium Updates With Security Fixes, Better Facebook Integration
2:30AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Adium, the popular, open-source, multi-protocol chat application for OS X, updates today to version 1.3.6 with vulnerability fixes and a new and improved Facebook chat plug-in—that is, it’s a small but solid update both on the feature and fix front. If you’re an Adium user, go to Adium -> Check For Updates to get the latest and greatest. [Adium Blog]
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Challenge/Response Beats IM Spam
4:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Free Adium plug-in Challenge Response prevents instant messaging spam by requiring unknown users to answer a quick challenge question before interrupting you with their message. Challenges would look something like, “What is the square root of 49 in numerical form?” which requires a response of “7,” but you can customise your own question and answer. Once a user answers correctly (i.e., verifies intelligence), Challenge/Response adds that user to a whitelist and they won’t be challenged again. There’s always the chance that the challenge and response might confuse an actual human enough that they’ll just give up on IMing you, but if you’re used to a lot of IM spam, Challenge/Response is a must. Challenge/Response is a free download, Mac OS X only, requires Adium. Thanks Jason! Challenge/Response [Adium Xtras] More »
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Adium Updates To 1.3.2, Fixes Bugs
2:50AM Adam Pash | Popular open-source chat application Adium has released a small update packed with bug fixes, including better support for MSN Messenger, status updates, and more. If you’re on OS X and you’re not using Adium, it may be time you grab the latest and check out what makes Adium one of the five best instant messengers. More »
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Adium Updates, Supports Facebook and Adds New Features
6:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: The popular open-source instant messaging application Adium has released a significant update chock-full of improvements. Most notably, Adium is working to keep in step with IM apps like Pidgin and Digsby by integrating Facebook chat. In addition, the new release adds Cmd-F search to the contact list (a godsend), significant performance improvements, and lots more. Adium is free, Mac OS X only. Adium More »
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Adium Beta “Even More Psychic”
8:58AM Gina Trapani | The newest beta of Mac instant messenger Adium boasts a super-cool new feature—the ability to pop a new chat when one of your contacts starts typing a message to you (but before he or she hits Send.) Neat! [via] More »
Sync Your IM Contacts and Address Book with AdiumBook
6:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Free, open source application AdiumBook acts as a bridge between your Adium IM contacts and your Address Book contacts to help you manage and keep all of your contacts in sync. You can add Adium contacts to Address book or update a contact’s entry with Adium’s information, as well as search across your Adium and Address Book contacts from one simple interface. If your contact data is spread across your traditional address book and IM contacts, AdiumBook might be just the tool to bring them together. AdiumBook is free, Mac OS X only. AdiumBook [via Cool OSX Apps] More »
Set Your Online Status for Multiple Apps with MoodBlast
2:00PM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: One very annoying aspect of status update applications—from Twitter to Facebook to IM—is that there are so many places to update your status, and if you’re not diligent you’ll end up “out to lunch” for weeks on end. Freeware application MoodBlast updates your status on chat apps, Facebook, Twitter, and more through one universal interface. That means you can enter “back from lunch” in one place and update the status on nearly every application capable of displaying status updates. MoodBlast is accessible through a universal hotkey, can display the music you’re currently listening to in iTunes, your current weather, or whatever individual status you feel like setting. MoodBlast is freeware, Mac OS X only. MoodBlast [via MacApper] More »
Adium Chat Improves Menu Bar Item, Corrects Your IM Grammar
5:00AM Adam Pash | Mac OS X only: Free, open source multi-client chat application Adium has released a new version rife with new and improved features. The most notable change is the Adium menu bar item, which now provides access to all of your contacts (Option-click for a contacts-only drop-down), accounts, status, and current chats. Another feature that apparently is not new but has never previously showed up in Adium for me is a grammar check, which underlines your sad chat-ified grammar missteps. Aside from all of that, the latest version includes gobs of bug fixes, so if you’re on a Mac, go grab the latest of this free piece of instant messaging genius. Adium [via Adium Blog] More »
Add Video and Audio Chat to Adium with MeBeam
9:00AM Adam Pash | Integrate video and audio chat with the popular open source chat application Adium using the freeware MeBeam plug-in. Once installed, you can start a video chat by right-clicking a contact and selecting “Initiate MeBeam Videochat”; Adium will automatically create a web-based chatroom and send the URL to your contact (sort of like Meebo is doing). As a bonus, the video chat is completely cross-platform and application independent since it lives in your browser. Unfortunately, the quality of the MeBeam chat was mediocre in my tests, with audio dropping regularly and a much lower resolution picture than you can expect with video chat from the likes of iChat. That said, I’d expect the MeBeam service to continue to improve, so if you’ve been dying for video chat integration with Adium, the free, Mac OS X-only MeBeam plug-in will do the trick. MeBeam Plugin [via Adium Blog] More »
