To all of those looking to help work on Adium, here is a perfect example of how helping another project can help Adium as well.

Webkit bounties can really help Adium a lot. So if you are so inclined as to work on Webkit, but would also like to get paid a little, and help Adium out in the process, check this out:

Karelia Bounties

These folks made Watson, and some other pretty neat apps. Now they are making something that requires webkit, and have found some problems with Webkit they need fixed.

Unsanity released a new product today, Chat Transcript Manager. It allows you to organize, search, and import logs from both iChat and Adium. Great job, guys! It’s always nice to see people supporting open file formats like Adium’s.

I hope Unsanity will support our new, XML-based logging system that is currently in development. I will be posting the preliminary DTD for it in the next couple of days, so look for that.

I was interviewed earlier today by the cool guys at pixelzion. I talk about Adium, some of the neat reasons to use Adium, and there are one or two cool little things in there about what’s coming up for around the 1.0. I had a great time, and hopefully I’ll be coming back on there in the future.

Frappr is a cool new Google Maps based mashup. I started a Frappr for Adium users all over the world. If you use Adium, feel free to add yourself. Oh, and tell your friends!

Hot on the heels of Adium X 0.85, 0.86 is now available for download. AIM users with large buddy lists will be glad to see the recent problems rate limiting errors while signing on resolved – changes to the AIM servers caused the problem, which affected most third party clients. Among other fixes and enhancements, we’ve also improved the File Transfer Progress Window and corrected an issue with .Mac accounts which was introduced in 0.85.

Quack on. 🙂

In an effort to get a better idea of what our userbase looks like and what kinds of usage patterns they have, we’ve put together a nifty survey that we’d appreciate it if you’d fill out. It’s nothing particularly special, but as the program becomes more complex and has more options, we’d like to reevaluate some of the options that we’re providing and have more sensible defaults.
Don’t stuff the ballot box, but make sure to get the word out so we can get a reasonably accurate sample of our userbase.
Peace.

0.85.1 will exist primarily to work around the recent AIM rate limiting problem. The beta is available at the beta page.

I’ve got a couple things I’d like to talk about over the next few weeks, mostly about the direction we’re headed as we being the march to 1.0, our next major release (sorry 0.9, but you’re just not cool enough). But first, I’d like to (officially?) announce that I’m going to be attending Drunkenblog’s Evening @ Adler.

Now, a few things I’d like to clarify about this. 1) No, I won’t be on the panel 2) No, there aren’t any seats left. 3) Yes it (and the afterparty) will be available to download/stream sometime after the talk. 4) As far as I know, Jeff Melloy and I are the only Adium developer attending, so we’ll be sure to represent. If you’re going to be there, feel free to leave a comment, maybe we can form some sort of giant robot or something.

Next time, I’ll be talking about some design related issues that are going to affect end-users in 1.0, including logging and message views. Stay tuned!

We’re proud to announce the availability of Adium X 0.85. This release is primarily a huge bugfix release, but it also introduces some neat enhancements.

In the bugs department, a bunch of crashes and user-experience issues have been solved, from the much-reported crash when accepting canceled file transfers to autoconnection of Jabber accounts and quite a few things in between (including closing one of the oldest bugs in Adium history in which the Color Picker stole our tab switching shortcuts). Check out the Version History for the full, extensive list.

As far as enhancements, the most important to AIM users is most likely that we’ve updated libgaim to include the AIM file transfer improvements implemented during the Google Summer of Code. AIM file transfer still isn’t perfect (please don’t bombard us with problem reports related to it!) but it’s definitely much-improved for most users. Additionally, we’ve added a Google Talk service type, expanded the Speak Text action, and more.

Adium X 0.85 also says “¡Bienvenidos!” to Spanish speakers with the addition of a long-awaited Spanish translation. 🙂

It’s beta time again 🙂