Shortly after the release of the updated Messenger for Mac, the multi-protocol alternative Adium 1.0 was released.
As I’m not a Mac user, I have never paid much attention to Adium, but with a 1.0 release it’s fair to take a look at it, even if I don’t use it.
Adium supports a wide array of services, these icons say enough:
Through the use of “Xtras”, Adium is highly customisable, types of Xtras including emoticon sets, contact list styles, message styles, AppleScripts, plugins, etc.
The change log from 0.89 is quite long, so get the new version if you’re a Mac user!
Version 6.0.2 of Messenger for Mac was released around the same time as Windows Live Messenger 8.1. The changes in this update include:
- Certificate alert now appears if you are missing a certificate preventing sign-in. If you get this alert, you need to contact Apple to find out how to obtain/re-install the certificate.
- Chat history for long histories should now save correctly.
- Some users were having issues where ALL contacts appeared offline; this has been resolved in this release.
- Messenger logging support has been added and is disabled by default. If you contact PSS with problems, they may ask you to enable logging so they can further investigate any issues.
It’s mostly an effort to fix sign-in issues, so be sure to update if you experience sign-in difficulty with Messenger for Mac.
ValSpy has also written a review of Messenger for Mac over at Messenger Stuff.
All the rumors of late can now be put to rest as the latest version of Windows Live Messenger has now been officially released and it’s no longer in beta. So what’s new?
- Obviously it’s no longer a beta product
- Supports 8 new languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Estonian, Latvian, Romanian, Serbian Latin, Thai and Ukrainian)
- Improved Vista Compatibility
- Various bug fixes to improve connectivity
It’s here to download. Also worth mentioning, Mess Patch has been updated for the latest version and as always available at http://www.mess.be.
Also on a sidenote, Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007 were released the same day.
According to picturepan2 from Windows X’s Shrine, an “interior guy” has informed him Windows Live Messenger 8.1 is set to be released on January 25th.
News like this pops up with every new version, most of the time it is speculation and never official. In many cases when it did have an intended release date, it would be delayed by a few days.
To find out what’s new in version 8.1, check out Nicole’s post at the Messenger team blog and the Windows Live Ideas page
Mess forum visitors are reporting that a new build of Windows Live Messenger has been released on the get.live.com Messenger site.
So far there seems to be no major differences between build 812 and the last release, build 792. I am guessing it is just some bug fixes that didn’t make it into the final release. The previously reported password weakness remains the same.
The installer is dated July 29th and is only about 90kB larger, TheSteve tells me the following files have changed:
- abssm.dll
- contactsUX.dll
- custstat.dll (now signed)
- lcapi.dll
- lcmdata.dll
- MessengerClient.dll (a little)
- msncall.exe
- msncore.dll
- msnmsgr.exe
- msvs.exe (bigger now)
Regarding lack of updates here, things are a bit slow in the community and I’m a little busy, although I am getting some things together for a site refresh is the coming months.
