A website called Wiggler has a tutorial on how to add speech notifications to Adium. It’s a three-step process in the Events Preferences—it’s really easy, and the tutorial is written well.

Also (this isn’t mentioned in the tutorial), you can set this up for specific contacts. Get Info on a contact, then switch to the Events tab; you’ll find an interface just like the one in the Events preferences, except that this one applies only to a specific contact or metacontact.

Found via digg; here’s the digg story.

I mentioned previously that we had added a defaults key to allow you to be notified of beta builds from within Adium release builds.

I lied. Due to an oversight, it doesn’t work in 1.0.5. We’ll fix it for the next release… but until then, keep your eyes peeled for Adium 1.1 beta, coming soon to an Adium blog near you.

So for since the dawn of time, man has always wondered “How do the Adium Developers create the Adium changelogs?!”

I will tell you, with pictures, and with words. First, a picture:

We typically use SubEthaEdit to do our changelogs. It’s a bunch of fun. In the end we always end up with a multicolored bit of things here and there, and a few laughs.

I hope everyone likes the image. That’s the 1.1 changelog (in mid edit).

We’re happy to announce that Adium 1.0.5 is now available for download.

This last planned release of the 1.0.x series fixes a big handful of bugs and so is a recommended download for all Adium 1.0 users. Adium 1.1, the next major release which has been in development for the past year, will drop OS X 10.3 support, targeting OS X 10.4+ so we can bring you more of the shiny.

The most notable changes of Adium 1.0.5 include that problems with the chat transcript viewer incorrectly re-indexing transcripts have been fixed, login credentials for systemwide proxy servers are now read properly, and we’ve updated to libpurple 2.0.2. Also, AdiumLibpurplePlugins, which can let Adium make use of libpurple protocol plugins previously usable only in Pidgin, will now install properly, good news for users interested in adding Tlen support to Adium. See the Version History for the full scoop.

Thanks as always for the continued support of our excellent site and code host NetworkRedux and our download host Cachefly!

Get involved in open source development! See Contributing To Adium for information on helping out in general, contributing code, and donating. 🙂

Hello everyone, this is Erich Kreutzer, another SoCoder. My project focuses on updating Bonjour messaging support within Adium. As some of you may have experienced, the current implementation has, unfortunately, not been kept up to date and thus does not work well (if at all). The current implementation also lacks support for file transfer.

Thus, the primary purpose of this project is to get Bonjour messaging and file transfer working with iChat as well as other clients. At this time, the messaging aspect of the project nears completion. A few minor bugs still exist including buddy icons not being sent (although they are received). However, I found out recently that a few adventurous users have already started using the updated implementation!

After I complete the messaging implementation, I plan to start implementing file transfer. I look forward to what should be a fun challenge.

As the project progresses I plan to keep everyone updated!

While we were at Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference, Peter, Colin, and I all went down to the Googleplex and recorded a podcast with the lovely and talented Leslie Hawthorn of Google Summer of Code fame. It got rather silly, but I think that’s just a good reflection of the project.

Hello,

This is Andre Cohen, one of the SoC students working on Adium. I have this summer been extending the contact list’s functionality to allow groups to be detachable. As it has been seen here a lot of progress has been made. Groups can easily be detached, moved and organized in which ever way one prefers. As of two weeks ago the project became stable enough for everyday use.

Currently I have been working on smoothing out the experience. This includes:

• Adding/perfecting options in the view and window menu
• Making sure it is clear to the user when a groups are attached to each other or if they simply are next to each other
• Fixing or perhaps revising the way contact lists hide on the edge of the screen (thus fixing a currently very interesting bug)

This project has been going very well. Having started a bit early on the project it is allowing me to take more time to make sure everything functions smoothly. More updates to come!

PS: Since this project is entirely focused on user interaction I look forward to hearing about concerns and/or suggestions about this project.

Adium 1.0.5 beta is now available. Please grab it and let us know about any problems. Adium 1.0.5 will be the last release which supports OS X 10.3.9, so it’s particularly important that 10.3 users be in touch. 🙂

Are you always interested in the latest Adium beta? As of Adium 1.0.5, we’ve added a hidden preference (shhh, don’t tell anyone!) to make the update notification system keep you posted on both betas and releases. Type the following into the Terminal to enable the preference:

defaults write com.adiumx.Adiumx AIAlwaysUpdateToBetas -bool YES

UPDATE: Please manually update to 1.0.5b3 if you downloaded b1 or b2; the update checking was not working properly in those builds. Thanks!

Hi,

It’s been a while since my last update, so I’d like to list what I’ve implemented so far. Since mid-eval is up pretty soon, I’ll need it anyways 🙂

• The new registration interface (I already posted screenshots for it on this blog).
• A small lock is shown next to connected accounts that use SSL/TLS encryption.
• Integrated a fully-features discovery browser for accessing all the nice remote features. This also allows listing MUC channels and joining them (screenshot).
• Implemented Ad-Hoc commands, both sending and receiving.
• Implemented these commands into the discovery browser (screenshot). The server’s ad-hoc commands are shown in the account submenu (as demonstrated in this image), too. If any contact on the contact list has some ad-hoc commands available, they’re listed in their context menu (this is untested due to some non-Adium bugs).
• Implemented displaying search results using the libpurple API. This will also benefit the other libpurple protocols.
• Implemented MSN/Yahoo!-style buzz/nudge-support, including writing up a proposal for a XEP for it
• Implemented XEP-0115: Entity Capabilities (version 1.3; I accidentally started a huge discussion on the xmpp-standards list to completely rewrite it after I implemented it)
• Implemented XEP-0203: Delayed Delivery, which was very simple.
• Automatic accept / accept+add / deny of subscription requests (called “Request for Authorization” in Adium I think)

The major parts still missing are:

• The ad-hoc receiving part is planned to be used by AppleScript, so you can add custom AppleScripts to the list to be executed by clients connected to the same account (different resource), even with forms for interaction. This depends on Matthew Handley implementing the AS-part, though.
• Multiuser-Chat enhancements. For this feature I’ll probably don’t have to do anything, since Erik Beerepoot agreed to add the connection between his work and libpurple itself, which should automagically make it work with XMPP (libpurple already implements all features I’d like to have added to Adium).
• #1323
• #4695

I’m well within my time plan, so the project is looking good so far.

Hi,

My name is Erik Beerepoot, i’m another SoC student here at Adium.

Although a bit on the late side perhaps, here’s an update on group chat improvements. As you can read on Google’s SoC page, I proposed to do several improvements on the current implementation of group chat. As coding has been going on for a little over a month now, some of this features have been implemented, and are waiting on dev feedback.

So far, I’ve updated the group chat interface, I’ve changed to old userlist and added a so-called widget bar. A planned feature for this bar is room commands; but for now, it just looks pretty.

I’ve also added drag & drop support to group chats. It is now possible to drag a contact from the contact list to a group chat, and the contact will join the group chat. I’m planning on adding sorting capabilities to the userlist (just like in the contact list), and also making this drag possible for turning a single user chat into a group chat.

Right now, I’m working on adding room/server bookmarking to adium. It is currently being discussed what exactly the proper graphical representation will be.

This is all for now, but i’ll have updates to follow soon!