Adium!

Since having my Macs, I haven’t done a whole lot of instant messaging. There are a few reasons for this. One large reason, however, was because there isn’t a plug-and-play Mac version of GAIM. So I was stuck with AIM fer Mac. And this software was very poor indeed. It would crash every twenty minutes, for no reason at all. It was generally just a half-assed version of AIM.

Recently though, the great Bakshi tipped me off to Adium. Adium is an application that, like GAIM, can connect and chat with a variety of other applications — AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, etcetera.

But it is so much better than GAIM. And heads and heels above AIM fer Mac.

Aesthetically it blends in superbly with OSX. The amount of various user options is large, but more importantly, they provide a lot of flexibility with how the program looks and runs. Everything is intuitive, and it’s a very well-made and well-sorted program. In short — Adium is definitely the instant messaging program that you should be using on your Mac.