Adium just keeps getting better and better. While messing around with one of Adium’s features the other day, I found a way to split up your contact list into multiple sections, by group.
To break up your contact list, hold Command and drag the header for any of your groups off of the window it is [...]

Adium is really filled with a ton of different keyboard shortcuts. I have been using it as my primary chat client for over a year now, but I am still discovering all sorts of ways to use it more efficiently and only now starting to use a handful of its keyboard shortcuts.
A great set of [...]

Adium must be the most customizable chat application in the world. It’s options are so numerous that I discover new ones nearly every day. One of the features that I have most recently discovered involve the organization of contacts who are not in their “available” state, those who are either offline, idle, or mobile.
There are [...]

Adium’s approach to statuses is probably the best I have seen in any instant messenger clients. It functions excellently and consistently across all of your chat applications, although it is a little glitchy from time to time. There are heavy customization preferences in the Advanced pane of Adium’s preferences, and you can maintain an endless [...]

My favorite thing so far about Adium’s recent 1.2 update is that it fixed most of the serious bugs I had been seeing with it in Leopard. (It also added some new ones.)
However, Adium’s most recent update also added some new features.
My favorite one of them so far is that you are now able to [...]

One of the great things that has come with the advancement of instant messaging software in the past few years is that it has become possible to combine multiple contacts, like one would in Address Book. Adium handles this in a slightly weird way, but it is actually still quite easy to do.
To combine the [...]

The regular way Adium treats groups is often frustrating. If you work with a few different IM protocols, changing a contact’s group can often be frustrating. However, I recently discovered a simple but useful trick that makes it possible to easily move contacts from one group to another.
To do this, simply hold down Command and [...]

Adium is probably the most visually customizable chat client I have ever seen. From themes and backgrounds to themes and dynamic Dock icons, Adium does it all.
One of my favorite customizations in Adium is the ability to adjust the location of the tab bar. It can be placed on top, at the bottom, or on [...]

If you have ever used iChat or Adium, you will know that they both have the ability to store each and every one of your chats transcripts. What frustrated me, is that after I realized the iChat’s flaws, and moved over to Adium (if you have not yet moved away from Apple’s iChat, refer to [...]

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