iChat in Adium!
UPDATE: April fool. 
We’re pleased to announce, jointly with the ChatKit project and Apple, that Adium (powered by ChatKit) will replace iChat in Leopard.
A future version of Adium, with ChatKit installed, is now running and working in prerelease builds of Mac OS X 10.5. These builds are currently only available to the Adium and ChatKit development teams. Here are some screenshots:
(courtesy of ChatKit developer Ofri Wolfus)
(courtesy of Growl project lead and Adium project manager Christopher Forsythe)
That’s right — iChat’s video support has been merged into ChatKit, and Adium can thereby use it. It’s the best of all three worlds!
Other features of the merged Adium-ChatKit-iChat experience:
- Buzz support, integrates with your iPod (now you can be BUZZed on the go!)
- External Buzz: Adium can knock on your friends’ doors to let them know they have messages waiting (requires external hardware, not included)
- Security feature: contact list moves away from your mouse cursor, making it impossible for unauthorized users to double-click on your contacts
- Pink Adiumy
- Boredom meter measures time since last message; can be configured to ring when the conversation is getting too boring
- Intel Core Duo
- Smart contact list groups with iTunes integration
- Wireless integration with iPod’s games: Play games like Brick and Music Quiz over IM
- .Mac synchronization
- Live graphics
- Close widgets have been freshly polished
- Click wheel
- Built-in disc-burning support — IM on the go!
- Support for IM over RFC 1149 transports (with the Duck-Pigeon Adapter)
- Even more tasty sandwiches
Some features are still in development, and will come in a future (post-Leopard) release:
- Electroshock buzz (requires external power supply and plug-in)
- Popcorn
- IM over Blu-Ray (requires that both you and your contact be downhill from each other)
- Interplanetary IM
April 1st, 2006 at 11:35 AM
April first.
Funny.
April 1st, 2006 at 12:16 PM
Funny, i hope you use more the blog.
April 1st, 2006 at 2:31 PM
Let’s get to 1.0 first and make this a stable release will real killer addons.
No Joke
April 1st, 2006 at 6:01 PM
i hate april fools day
April 1st, 2006 at 7:13 PM
I don’t think you should release. You need tastier sandwiches.
April 1st, 2006 at 8:46 PM
HAHA Thats great, I wish it was real though….
–Benjamindaines
April 1st, 2006 at 8:55 PM
What theme was used to make it look like Leopard?
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:12 AM
I almost started crying with joy, and then i remembered that it was april fools,
nice one
April 2nd, 2006 at 11:25 AM
lol nice one!
April 2nd, 2006 at 1:52 PM
If this was true, adium would be the best IM client ever..well i think it is, but it would have world domination.
April 2nd, 2006 at 5:41 PM
@zerock
Especially if it could make you sandwiches
April 3rd, 2006 at 10:56 AM
how far are we from 1.0b1 ?
April 4th, 2006 at 5:39 PM
zsahhhaha i got fooled!!!
April 4th, 2006 at 8:32 PM
Oh, April Fools..I was getting excited, damnit.
I also look like a fool on IRC.
Bastards. ;-;
April 5th, 2006 at 5:51 AM
Nice one, but i think someone should take this joke down or mark it as a April Fool joke?
It’s quite misleading as it’s not April Fool anymore
April 5th, 2006 at 3:09 PM
It’s really kind of a lame joke. You point out how much Adium sucks because it doesn’t include video chat support or active status messages.
Lame.
April 7th, 2006 at 6:45 AM
in Spain fool’s day is December 28… I was confused till I read these comments…
April 7th, 2006 at 5:10 PM
Ohhhhh nooooooooooo…………….. you won’t do a pink Adiumy?! Too BAD
April 22nd, 2006 at 3:35 PM
Where can I find those status icons in the second screenshot?
June 16th, 2006 at 5:10 PM
where did you get that background?