AIM for Mac?

[clarentine]

Hey, all you Mac people out there - have any of you downloaded the new version of AIM built specifically for the Mac? Have you had any problems with it, or heard of anyone who has? I'm loathe to download something that's going to cause me grief when I already have enough stuff to be dealing with.

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Hmm, is there a reeeeally good reason to not use Adium instead?

[clarentine]

You mean, aside from never having heard of it?

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

That's a good reason! xD

Adium is a client that runs AIM and almost every other IM setup that you can think of at the same time, so you can be signed in on everything at once. It's pretty nice and very stable, and fairly customizable. (I have a GIR icon set from Invader Zim. heh.) And it doesn't have ads or any of the other junk that AIM throws at you. It occasionally has issues with file transfers, though, if you use AIM a lot for that.

http://www.adiumx.com/

[sleary.livejournal.com]

I was going to suggest Adium as well. :)

[clarentine]

Ah ha. I am not liking AIM - it keeps dumping me every time I forget and double-finger drag the mouse, like I can in Mac applications, and I hate being dumped. I may just try Adium. Thanks for the rec!

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Me too! It has a duck.

[clarentine]

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As in, duck, there's a hand grenade?

*g*

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

The dock icon is a duck. It flaps its wings when you have a message. ;)

[clarentine]

Aw. I like my version better.

So, tell me. Do you use your AIM login still or have to create a new one, or something? I'm intrigued.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

I use my AIM login(s). I also use Yahoo login, Gmail login, and LJ. If I had MSN Messenger, Jabber, Facebook, Bonjur, ICQ...it would also use that. Alas, the only one I have that it doesn't is Skype, but Skype requires things Adium doesn't use. Voice and video. There's always iChat for those on AIM.

[clarentine]

Wow. One place to look at all of that? Wow.

...now I really must look into Adium.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's really fab. It has tabs for all your stuff in one window. And it uses Growl, which is a notification program that flashes up background chat at you while you're on another window. :)

[clarentine]

(I should have posted the "thanks for the rec" here first. *g*)

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

I hope you like it =)