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Adium vs ICQ


Adium is a software written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, developed by the Adium team. Based on the libpurple protocol library. It can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.


ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, now owned by Time Warner's AOL subsidiary. The first version of the program was released in November 1996 and ICQ became one of the first Internet-wide instant messaging services.



Adium vs. ICQ :

Adium ICQ

Operating system support

Mac OS X Windows Mobile,BlackBerry
Protocol support

WLM,Y!M,AIM,ICQ,XMPP,IRC   IBM Lotus Sametime ,  Novell GroupWise Messenger,Bonjour,Gadu-Gadu ,QQ,  OTR,LAN,Xfire,Skype,MySpaceIM,  Facebook , LiveJournal

AIM, ICQ,
Features included

Encryption ,Graphical smileys ,Unicode (UTF-8) ,Themes / skins,Plugin system,Third party add-ons, Scripting,Message Logging

File transfer ,Graphical smileys,Unicode (UTF-8) ,Built-in games, Themes / skins, Plugin system, Third party add-ons, Scripting, Message Logging, Voice messaging,Webcam Support, Offline messaging , Right-to-Left texting



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  • Adium
    A popular free instant messaging client for Mac OS X.
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  • Gadu-Gadu



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