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First Post - Instant Messengers

Well, for the first posts of this weblog, let's start with the obvious known freeware apps, mainly for the beginning Mac users who are looking for system customization:

Adium - THE BEST instant messenger for the Mac. Period. You can use it for ICQ, MSN, AIM, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger and other protocols. Only features it lacks are audio and webcam support. Preliminary webcam suport for MSN can be found in aMSN 0.95 beta and Mercury Messenger, though they are kind of heavy and CPU consuming apps.

Fire is also a multi protocol instant messenger with (almost) as many resources as Adium but I never really liked the interface.

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