Mac OS X Freeware

Yahoo! Messenger is a free service that allows you to see when friends come online and send them instant messages. It can also alert you to new email in your Yahoo! Mail account.

Features:

• Webcam
• Emoticons
• File Transfer
• Stealth settings
• Display images
• Avatars
• Instant message with Windows Live^™
• Apple Address Book Integration
• Confrencing
• Voice, call PC-to-PC & PC-to-Phone
• Automatic Updates
• Stay connected from your mobile phone
• Tabbed Conversation
• Message Archiving
• “New IM” indicator in the OS X dock

Latest version: 3.0 beta 3 (build 98855) ^updated

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Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more. With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services.

Supported Services:

• AOL Instant Messenger (including ICQ and .Mac)
• Jabber (including Google Talk and LiveJournal)
• MSN Messenger
• Yahoo! Messenger (including Yahoo! Japan)
• Bonjour (compatible with iChat)
• MySpace IM
• Gadu-Gadu
• Novel Groupwise
• QQ
• Lotus Sametime

Latest version: 1.2.3 ^updated

Links:

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