Just had to note one more free mac-only app - Adium.
iChat is a pretty sweet deal for instant messaging. And if you want to do audio or video chat, it’s still the way to go. But if text chatting is your deal, then Adium is what you want.
Aside from already being able to connect to all your AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google, Skype, and other contacts through one application, they just added Facebook support in the latest beta release.
The other thing I really like is how much you can customize the look and feel of the contact list and messaging windows. This is what I am looking at on my screen…
See that little deal, yeah, that’s all I the screen space it has to use up!
When you throw in a little Growl support (pop-up notifications) on top of that, it is a really, really great application.
7 responses so far ↓
1 chris // Jun 11, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Looks like a pretty sweet background behind Adium. Are you drawing up flag football plays?
2 Jim // Jun 11, 2008 at 8:22 pm
“allow multiple people remotely edit the same calendar” did you check out Google calendar? I like it and use it for small group.
3 Jason Z. // Jun 11, 2008 at 11:38 pm
I wanted to follow up with what Jim said in the previous comment. Google calendar is probably the easiest way to share calendars. iCal Server requires Leopard Server. And if I read the material correctly, Mac users must be running Leopard and PC users must be using Mozilla’s mail client to access shared calendars.
4 JR Rozko // Jun 11, 2008 at 11:39 pm
@Chris - check this out - it’s where the backgound came from and you’ll love it
@Jim - yeah, that is a good option, but as we are all mac folk, we are trying to keep stuff in ical
5 JR Rozko // Jun 11, 2008 at 11:44 pm
@Jason - no you misunderstood, you are supposed to give me the magical and simple answer to make all my wildest calendar sharing dreams come true!
kidding - that was what I thought, just hoping that I might have missed something. We are not at a point of running our own server(s) quite yet, but if we get there, maybe we’ll look into this - thanks Jason
6 shawn graham // Jun 12, 2008 at 12:34 am
Since you are all on macs (and who in their right mind would use anything else) you might like http://www.busymac.com/ the Sync ical app does a good job of allowing other to push changes to a shared server… but supposedly the updates to .mac (mobileMe is a really bad name) will fix all of that by adding push mail and calendars. It should be out next month but if you need a fix now the Sync app will work.
7 JR Rozko // Jun 13, 2008 at 9:43 am
@Shawn - Yeah, a friend made me aware of that option. From what I can tell, it only works if you are connected over a LAN or in range for Bonjour. We need something more widely accessible I think. The new version of .mac may hold some promise. Thanks.
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