http://www.osnews.com/story/15442/Interview_with_Chris_Forsythe_of_Adium_and_Growl Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:57:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?150808 http://osnews.com/thread?150808 I'd recommend it over any other IM Client.
I used Trillian Pro on Windows for a looooong time and also GAIM (on Windows when Trillian was having problems with some protocols).

When I 1st got a Mac I tried Adium and Fire. I sticked with Adium, it's fantastic.

I miss *some* features from Trillian, like the ability to set up different States per protocol and switch them back and forth with a keyboard shortcut... that's priceless, when the phone rangs you have a state "on the phone" you just change your state instantly, so the guy/s you were talking to don't keep asking "Hello? Hello? Hello?".

;) Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Gryzor) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150832 http://osnews.com/thread?150832 Thanks to Adium I finally could ditch the old crappy ICQ. iChat did not work for me because of cyrillic letters (not supporting them). Now with Adium I can chat with ICQ and MSN users. What I miss is video/audio integration and possibility of screen-sharing. Another issue is that I cannot see the user profile of someone who sends me an invitation. So I cannot decide if this is spam or a real user.

So thanks a lot to the developers of this great program, which I use quite every day. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kloty) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150847 http://osnews.com/thread?150847 Adium is a great IM program for the Mac. I hope they continue their development. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (milatchi) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?150882 http://osnews.com/thread?150882 Adium is brilliant, hands down the best out there, I just wish it would be ported to Windows as well, I use Miranda at home, and it's not bad, but Adium handles plugins, themes much much better.

Trillian is ok, but it started to get a little irritating for me with how it looks or does things.

Keep up the great work guys. Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Finchwizard) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?151105 http://osnews.com/thread?151105 Growl is awesome, and I love Adium (just wish it had IRC support so I didn't have to run Colloquy... at least Colloquy is also good and supports Growl).

- chrish Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chrish) Comments