Alternatives to Adium on Mac
Adium is an instant messaging client available on the Mac operating system. The program features support for multiple instant messaging protocols and features deep integrating with the Mac operating system. If you find that Adium doesn't meet your needs, there are several alternative instant messaging clients that provide many of the same features and more.
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IChat
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The Mac operating system includes an instant messaging application called iChat that enables you to connect to AIM, MobileMe and ICQ. The program can also support platforms like Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger and Windows Live using the XMPP protocol. As a native application, iChat features the strongest integration with the Mac operating system theme and address book. True to the Mac aesthetic, the iChat interface is very minimalistic, with a focus primarily on the instant messaging capabilities. Despite this minimalism, iChat is a powerful messaging client capable of audio and video chat, file transfers and multi-person chat.
Trillian
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Trillian is a multi-protocol instant messaging application that supports every popular chat platform, including AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk and Windows Live. One of the most feature rich alternatives to Adium, Trillian includes built-in social networking tools that allow you to post messages to Facebook and Twitter and synchronized chat functionality that enables you to easily transfer instant message conversations from your computer to your smartphone device. Compared to Adium and other alternatives, Trillian has the most aggressive development cycle and receives regular updates designed to add features and fix bugs.
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Pidgin
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Pidgin is an open source chat client that bares the most resemblances to Adium. Like Adium, Pidgin is based on Libpurple -- a library of code that powers the instant messaging software. Being that it's based on much of the same code, almost all of the functionality available in Adium is also available in Pidgin. Where the program differs from Adium is in its support for third-party add-ons. You can enhance Pidgin in a variety of ways through the installation of extensions from the Pidgin add-ons library.
Meebo
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Unlike the other Adium alternatives, Meebo is a purely Web-based chat client that can be accessed from the Web browser. Meebo supports all major chat protocols and can be used from any computer with a Web connection. To get the best of Meebo, you can install the Meebo browser extension available for Safari, Firefox and Chrome to more tightly integrate the chat client with your Web browser.
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