![]() ![]() ![]() Information unless you explicitly provide it, and we don't share the Letters may beĮdited for length, context, and to match house style. Publication" email addresses will not be published without permission,Īnd we will encrypt them in hopes of avoiding spammers. Registered trademarks and are hereby acknowledged.Īny public page as long as the linked page does not appear within aĮmail may be published at our discretion unless marked "not for Additional company and product names may be trademarks or IPad, iPhone, iMac, iPod, MacBook, Mac Pro, and AirPort are registered trademarks of Apple Advice is presented in good faith, but what works for oneĮntire Low End Mac website copyright ©1997-2016 by Cobweb Publishing, Inc. Those of their authors and may not reflect the opinion of Cobweb Sponsored, or otherwise approved by Apple Inc. Low End Mac is an independent publication and has not been authorized, Go to our home page for a listing of recent content.The smallest, least costly Mac clone had two PCI slots. Mac of the Day: Umax SuperMac C500, introduced 1996.11.More in the Collection Spotlight index.If you find Leo's articles helpful, please consider making a donation to his tip jar. Join us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter or Google+, or subscribe to our RSS news feed But you can still have the "One Instant Messenger to If you're running Mac OS X 10.2.8, you can run of Adium 0.89.1,īut it's somewhate outdated as most plugins only work on versionġ.0 or higher. Running OS X 10.3.9, and version 0.89.1 will run on older Want to run the latest (version 1.1), you must be running Mac You can run a version of Adium with an version of OS X. Mac Messenger, only works on as far back as Mac OS 8.6. Official MSN client only works on Mac OS 9.2.2, and another one, If theyĬould make it work back to System 7, that would be great. Version, which I think many people would benefit from. The only major downfall I can see is there is no Classic Mac OS Recently had an issue with one and got a prompt and helpful The developers of these plugins are also quite helpful. They even have tutorials to help you with plugins, if you are soīrave. This feature is highly supported by the development team, and This makes it easy to add other IM protocols, You can even change the Dock icon's color.Īdium can handle an unlimited number of IM accounts, which isįeature of all, however, is that it's officially extendable through Making it transparent and have it stay in front of other programs. ItĬomes with a number of themes and windowing options, including Second, Adium is highly customizable out of the box. Way others can easily make changes to the software without getting License ), which is the most popular, but others exist. It may be under the GNU GPL (General Public Upload the source, so the next person who wants to modify the codeĭoesn't have to decompile the program first.Īlmost all programs come with a software license, and FOSS is noĭifferent. They can take the source code and modify itĪny way they want, but when they upload the program, they must also You include the source code with theĪpplication, and then another person comes along and decides to add What does that mean? Let's say you write a simple Web browserĪnd decide to make it FOSS. Free and Open Sourceįirst off, it is free open source software (FOSS). Which, make this the best IM app out there, even beating Gaim. It has several more up it's sleeve (or feathers), all of This, however, is not this pony's (or should I say, ducks) one That is a major plus toĪnyone who keeps a half dozen windows open at once, as do I. ![]() I would like to run as few programs as possible and to have lessĬlutter in the Dock and less open windows - and I know there are It combines instant messengers - so what? This includes, but is not limited to,ĪOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Yahoo Instant Messenger, Microsoft But it's not justĪny old instant messenger, for it combines most other instant With it, Adium is an instant messenger program. I will still continue to look at old Macs in my collection, but I'mĪbout one of my favorite Mac OS X apps, Adium. Mini-series I am doing which I am calling "Spotlight on Software". Author's note: This is the first in a new ![]()
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