Pentru utilizatorii Windows nu mai este o noutate folosirea unui client de IM, de tipul “all-in-one” (ex. Meebo, eBuddy, etc.). Insa, mai nou, nici utilizatorii Apple Mac nu duc lipsa de alstfel de servicii. Dintre acestea, amintim de Adium si de Proteus.

Adium, lansat sub licenta GNU GPL, este o aplicatie IM gratuita, exclusiv pentru Mac OS X. Folosind Adium, te poti conecta simultan la serviciile de chat pe care le folosesti.

Supported services

• AOL Instant Messenger (Including ICQ and MobileMe (formerly known as .Mac))
• MSN Messenger
• Jabber (Including Google Talk and LiveJournal)
• Yahoo! Messenger (Including Yahoo! Japan)
• Bonjour (Compatible with iChat)
• MySpace IM
• Lotus Sametime
• Novell Groupwise
• QQ
• Gadu-Gadu

Features:  – OTREncryption (Off the Record Messaging)

- Tabbed Messaging (permit combinatii flexibile ale mai multor sisteme de chat; o singura fereastra poate contine pana la 10 taburi)

- File Transfer (inca in teste, uneori poate sa dea erori sau sa nu functioneze deloc)

Protocols that support file transfer

• AIM (hard limit of 4 GB)
• ICQ (hard limit of 4 GB)
• IRC
• MSN (send through server only)
• SILC
• Yahoo when not using an HTTP proxy (is relayed via a file transfer server).
• XMPP (Jabber) when neither side is behind a NAT device.

- WebKIt Message Display (powered by WebKit – ofera utilizatorilor Adium o varietate de stiluri pentru etalarea mesajelor)

Alegerea statusului insa, poate pune userul la incercare, avand in vedere multele optiuni pe care Adium le are. :)

In plus fata de aceste trasaturi, Adium este disponibil tradus in urmatoarele limbi:

• Brazilian Portuguese
• Canadian English
• Australian English
• Catalan
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• French
• French (Canadian)
• German
• Icelandic
• Italian
• Japanese
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Russian
• Simplified Chinese
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Traditional Chinese
• Turkish