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__**DESCRIPTION **__


 * Adium** is a popular free instant messaging client for Mac OS X that supports multiple IM networks, including Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, ICQand XMPP. It supports many protocols through the libraries libezv (for Bonjour), MGTwitterEngine (for Twitter), and libpurple (for all other protocols). It is written using Mac OS X's Cocoa API, and it is released under the GNU General Public License, and many other licenses for components that are distributed with Adium.

Adium can connect you to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services. Adium does not host any IM services. Adium is a third-party client for connecting to services run by other people (mostly companies).

FEATURES
 * Open Source, so everyone can see how Adium works and help improve it
 * Support for a wide range of different Instant Messaging services (see the full list)
 * Tabbed chat windows
 * Mac OS X integration
 * Address Book integration
 * WebKit Message View: Theme your chat windows
 * Combined Contacts: Merge your contacts so that each one represents a person, not an account
 * File Transfer
 * Xtras and many, many other customization options
 * Icon, the "Adiumy" duck
 * Translations: Adium speaks 27 different languages

PROTOCOLS

Adium supports the following protocols: OSCAR including AIM, MobileMe (formerly known as .Mac) and ICQ services XMPP (formerly known as Jabber) including Google Talk, Facebook Chat, and LiveJournal services .NET Messenger Service (also known as MSN and Windows Live) Yahoo! Messenger, USA & Japan Bonjour MySpaceIM Gadu-Gadu Novell GroupWise Lotus Sametime Tencent QQ MeBeam with a plugin Tlen with a plugin Xfire with the XBlaze plugin Skype with a plugin IRC (beta only) Twitter (beta only) NateOn with a plugin

PLUGINS & CUSTOMIZATION

Adium makes use of a plugin architecture; many of the program's essential features are actually provided by plugins bundled inside the application package. Adium is also highly customizable through the use of resources its developers call "Xtras". The program can be customized by the use of hundreds of third-party Xtras that alter the appearance of emoticons, dock icons, contact list styles, and messages styles.

__**HISTORY **__

Adium was created by college student Adam Iser, and the first version, "Adium 1.0", was released in September 2001 and supported only AIM. At this point, the Adium team began a complete rewrite of the Adium code expanding it into a multiprotocol messaging program. The Adium team originally intended to release these changes as "Adium 2.0". However, Adium was eventually renamed to "Adium X" and released at version 0.50, being considered "halfway to a 1.0 product".[3] Adium X 0.88 was the first version compiled as a universal binary, allowing it to run natively on Intel-based Macs. After version Adium X 0.89.1, however, the team finally decided to change the name back to "Adium", and as such "Adium 1.0" was released on February 2, 2007.

__**IMPACT ON TEACHING AND LEARNING **__

Adium enhances education by improving the communication among members of the course (students, classmates, Teachers/Professors, and Teacher's Assistant) outside of the classroom.

Many individuals have several IM messaging accounts because their network of contacts have multiple accounts as well. Adium allows students and teachers to communicate on one central hub regardless of what IM messaging service their contacts use. This saves time in having to get several IM accounts and log into a specific account to talk to just a few people.

In a real scenario, a study group may consist of 3 students. This group will want to discuss their project with the Teaching Assistant and the Professor of the course. That is a total of 5 individuals involved in this system. However, 1 student uses Yahoo Messenger, 1 student uses Facebook, 1 student uses MSN, the Teaching Assistant uses AIM, and the Professor uses Skype. They could all decide to get multiple accounts on all 5 IM services and then decide which one they will use to have a discussion.

Using Adium in this scenario will provide the students, the Teaching Assistant, and the Professor one venue where they all can meet without having to worry about what particular IM messaging service they are logged into. Group work and consulting with the teacher and the assistants becomes much more convenient.

__**PRACTICAL APPLICATION **__

Adium can be used for chatting with family, friends, work colleagues, school classmates, clients, multiple individuals all at the same time using one central hub. As mentioned earlier, This saves time in having to get several IM accounts and log into a specific account to talk to just a few people.

Companies can use Adium to communicate with multiple clients all at the same time without submitting requests for clients to get an MSN account or a Facebook account.

__**EXAMPLES AND DEMONSTRATIONS**__

HOW TO INSTALL

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Installing Adium is similar to installing most Mac OS X applications. To load Adium, locate it in the Applications folder (or whereever you dragged it) and double click.
 * 1) [|Download] the Adium disk image from http://adium.im/. Note that download managers/accelerators may interfere with this.
 * 2) If an Adium window doesn't open automatically, double click the downloaded file
 * 3) Drag the Adium application to your Applications folder (Or wherever you'd like to keep it).
 * 4) "Eject" the Adium disk image, which has an icon of a drive
 * 5) The Adium disk image will still be present in your download folder (probably on your desktop). You can drag this file to the trash, as it is no longer needed.

Updating The easiest way to update your copy of Adium is the “Check for Updates” menu item in the Adium menu. If you'd prefer to upgrade manually (perhaps so you can more easily keep the disk image around), then just follow the steps listed above for installation, and choose to the existing copy of Adium.app when prompted in step 3. Your settings and contacts will not be affected (like well-behaved application, Adium does not store your settings or data inside itself).

HOW TO ADD MULTIPLE CHAT ACCOUNTS

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__**REFERENCES**__

Adium official website - http://adium.im/ Wikipedia page about Adium - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adium Additional Features to add to Adium - http://www.adiumxtras.com/ YouTube Tutorials on Adium - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adium

__**EXTERNAL LINKS**__

Adium official website - http://adium.im/ Wikipedia page about Adium - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adium Additional Features to add to Adium - http://www.adiumxtras.com/ YouTube Tutorials on Adium - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adiu