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Adium adds Twitter support and others

May 19, 2009 — Leave a comment

For many who uses multiple IM services (MSN, AOL, Google Chat, ICQ etc), the one application that I highly recommend is to use “Adium”:http://adium.im/. Currently it can support up to 15 different systems. With the latest beta (version 1.4b1), it added “Twitter”:http://www.twitter.com support into its list of supported services.

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With this new inclusion, you can combine all your social networking chat tools into one. As the timeline is displayed within the existing Adium chat window, it will display it according to the “message style”:http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=search&cat_id=5 you chose, and some of them might not be suitable for display a long list of twitter updates.

As seen on the image above, they have cleverly placed the common twitter functions (Retweet, Reply, Favorite and URL of the Tweet) within the tweet line with 4 simple icons. In the input field, it will also indicate the character count and will change the background to RED if it goes above the 140 character limit.

This new inclusion will surely be loved by those who have limited desktop real estate and want one less application running, but its interface will take some getting use to, especially in the face of existing apps like “Twitterrific”:http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific and “Tweetie”:http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-iphone/, just to name a few.

Included in this update besides Twitter support is also the addition of IRC support. This beta 1.4 however, is only for OS X 10.5 Leopard users (“download site”:http://beta.adium.im/). So far, it is quite stable and everything still works well.

For OS 10.4 users, you can get the final (possibly) stable version 1.3.4 (“download link”:http://adium.im/?download=10.4).

Do you like the new Twitter support in Adium or are you going to stick with your existing Twitter client?

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Adium users logged out from MSN

January 12, 2009 — Leave a comment

Users of “Adium”:http://adiumx.com/ have “reported”:http://forums.cocoaforge.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=19137 being denied access to their MSN account. Most who are using the latest 1.3.2 released version or the 1.3.3 beta version couldn’t log into their MSN account. Looking at my Adium Debug Log shows the error: “Unable to retrieve MSN Address Book”.

A “support ticket”:http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/11568 was created and we probably have to wait for an update to solve the problem. In the mean time, you can still use Microsoft’s own “Messenger for Mac”:http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/messenger/default.mspx.

Official “word”:http://adiumx.com/blog/2009/01/msn-rejecting-adium-132-connections/ about the problem:

bq.. Starting at about 20:00 PST tonight (January 11), Microsoft’s servers have stopped accepting logins from clients that use version 15 of the protocol, including Adium 1.3.2. The Debug Window in debug and beta versions of Adium reveals that their server is failing to find a certificate that it needs when Libpurple attempts to retrieve your MSN Address Book.

In case you’re wondering, this also affects Pidgin, which means it’s definitely not an Adium problem…We’re not sure whether this is a temporary server problem or a permanent change that will break P15-using Libpurple-based clients (including Adium 1.3.2) until a future Libpurple release. If it turns out to be the latter, we’ll almost certainly include that Libpurple update in our next 1.3.3 beta.

p. Let’s hope they sort this out quickly.

update – which someone did. There’s also an update to the software available.

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