This is where I found the Arsenal "skin," and it's where you can make your dock icon juggle and do just about anything (or look like just about anything). This is emphatically true of Adium, which has an amazing array of third-party add-ons or tweaks called Adium Xtras. Successful open-source projects tend not to necessarily garner a lot of outside code contributions to the core of a project (85 percent of core development work is done by a core development group of fewer than 15 people, on average), but rather invite a robust community "at the periphery." Language packs, add-ons, etc. It is in this area of customization that Adium proves its open-source credentials. It has been one big devotional ever since. When I discovered that my Arsenal Adium duck could also wave Arsenal banners, I became an Adium devotee. But then I discovered that I could dress the duck in an Arsenal uniform, and the resistance crumbled. I initially resisted Adium because, well, I'm not fond of ducks as program icons. In some ways, it's very similar to Trillian on the Windows platform in that it allows you to combine nearly all of your IM services (Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Jabber, etc.) into one client.īut Adium actually goes further and provides more. But its strengths vastly outnumber its weaknesses. It has its flaws and is, in some ways, deficient compared to iChat, Apple's own IM client. Here's proof.Īdium is quite simply the best instant-messaging (IM) client available. Open source long ago stopped being about developers for other developers. Given all the great consumer-facing open-source software available, I figured that I'd try to evaluate and write reviews on those I use most often.
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