Portable Adium is the multiprotocol Adium instant messaging client (that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Facebook and more) packaged as portable application.
As a result, you’ll be able to carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk).
All you need are 50 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your conctact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.
Adium application, preference file and profile folder are inside the bundle:
Portable Adium.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Download Portable Adium here.
This trick solved many of the problems I had with Leopard: the 10 secs delay for Mail to check my email, slow connection on MSN Messenger, Adium won’t connect to MSN at all…
Two steps to fix this(these) issue(s):
- go to Network > Advanced > DNS, and add these DNS: 4.2.2.2 & 141.1.1.1, click on “Apply” and close system preferences.
- open Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app), and type this command: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
Now you can start your applications and you’ll feel the change!
A new version of messenger for Mac is available.
Good news: it finally supports video-conference.
Bad news: video is only accessible for Microsoft Office Communications Server users.
You can get it here
Mac Os X users can use Skype, iChat or aMsn to video-chat with buddies.
It doesn’t have a beautiful interface, but it has all the features you ever dreamed of: aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone, with features such as:
- Offline Messaging
- Voice Clips
- Display pictures
- Custom emoticons
- Multi-language support (around 40 languages currently supported)
- Webcam support
- Sign in to more than one account at once
- Full-speed File transfers
- Group support
- Normal, and animated emoticons with sounds
- Chat logs
- Timestamping
- Event alarms
- Conferencing support
- Tabbed chat windows
Download it here.
I was chatting with a nice person for the first time on MSN and… 
Disconnection… The person went offline…
NB: I sign in to MSN with my dotmac address (@mac.com)
Maria told me to follow the steps, it will probably leads me somewhere, so I clicked on “OK”, I had to “switch” to a @hotmail.com account or to their new @messengeruser.com (that’s an ugly name) account (which is a hotmail account without email support).
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In this web based solution, all you’ll have to do is enter your MSN Messenger login and password in a form, click on “Analyze” and it will give you a full list of your MSN contacts and you’ll know which of them blocked you.
CheckMessenger is the site.
I won’t repeat what you all have seen on Steve Jobs’s Keynote and what you’ve read on Apple.com but here are some of my views on Apple new stuffs…
- iChat: I was really hoping and expecting for iChat to handle MSN and Yahoo! but it’s clear: iChat IS AIM, No MSN and/or Other IM support…
- Safari for Windows: just like iTunes for Windows helped Apple to conquer some PC users for the iPod, Safari will probably be the bridge to iPhone
- Core Animation: the Leopard OS will really be beautiful, great special effects (stacks), amazing transparency effects (menu bar) and reflection (the new dock).
These are the 3 points that I wanted to add :razz:
