Also the interface for the system doesn’t look all that amazing.
(1)Adium
Many Mac users will most likely have heard of Adium.
Adium is probably the biggest multi-protocol instant messaging tool that there is for Mac.
It can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo and several others.
Adium uses thelibpurplelibrary for most of its functionality so it is very stable.
A downside to Proteus though is, just like Adium, it doesn’t support video chat.
(3)Fire
Fire is identical to Proteus as it is also a Cocoa app.
A great feature about Mercury Messenger is that it supports video chat.
you might also stream video files over your webcam stream which is a really cool feature.
Mercury Messenger is customizable but not to the extent that you could customize Adium.
A nice thing about Mercury Messenger is that it isportableand can run from a USB memory stick.
Additionally is also supports video conferencing (unlike Mercury Messenger).
Pidgin is a very nice app and definitely worth checking out.
If you’re interested check our post onPidgin Tipshere.
