new Adium. Nice.

[klezmer]

New Adium for Mac, v.1.4, includes a Twitter messenger and an IRC client (IRC? – something from the pre-ICQ era I believe).
Doesn't do much for me, but a nice addition anyways.

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[klezmer.livejournal.com]

That's a really good one! Thanks! :-)

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

Actually, most big open source projects have IRC channels for developers. http://freenode.net/ is a very popular IRC server. It's also commonly used by system administrators. So while XMPP (Jabber) networks are much more sophisticated, IRC stays pretty established.

(BTW, more of this comic can be found here: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/bizarre_cathedral_1 )

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the 2nd link, made me smile :)
Of delevopers' networks, that sounds pretty interesting but quite a different world to me.
I just felt kind of funny having read "IRC" in the Aduim's new version's features-n-fixes, like remembering something I saw 1.5 decades ago on CDs with pirated software, 100-in-1, sold across the FSU countries.

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

Actually most such multiprotocol clients (I use Pidgin for that) include IRC, XMPP and a whole bunch of proprietary protocols like AIM, ICQ, MSN etc. to cater to a broad number of users.

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

I've heard about Pidgin, just got used to Adium. I believe, it's actually the matter of habit, unless any of them boldly stands out as per its functionality, usability, or stability.
Funny, I've logged on the Pidgin's web-site and saw another bird (the link to compare (http://adium.im/"))

[bahaltener.livejournal.com]

My wife noted to me, that open source projects like to pick up animals for names (especially Mozilla ones) :)

[klezmer.livejournal.com]

Well noted and fair even for the not open source MacOS X versions (big cats, right?). However, Google oddly doesn't conform with this rule picking up desserts' names in alphabetical order for its new Android releases :-)