Adium for Mac is a free and open source instant messaging application for Mac OS X.

About Adium for Mac

Adium is an instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple protocols through the libgaim library.

It is written using OS X's Cocoa API, and it is released under the open source GNU General Public License.

Adium was originally created by a college student named Adam Iser, and the first version, 1.0, was released in September 2001.

Screenshot of Adium

Notable Features

• Supports all major messengers
Adium supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime.


• OTR (Off the record) Encryption
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging and no one can read your messages.


• Tabbed Messaging
Tabbed messaging allows the flexible combination of multiple chats into any combination of windows to maximize efficiency and screen real estate.


• File Transfer
  
Adium can send and receive files on ICQ, AIM, IRC, MSN, SILC and XMPP.


• Webkit Message Display
Adium offer an incredible variety of beautiful message display styles, and allows web-savvy users to become developers of Adium's appearance without touching a line of code.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

• Mac OS X 10.5 Intel


• Mac OS X 10.5 PPC


• Mac OS X 10.4 Intel


• Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Download Link

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