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Adium updated to 1.4.0

Adium, the open source instant message chat client with support for multiple programs (including AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo! Google Talk, Bonjour, etc.) has been updated to version 1.4.0. The new version, a 21.3 megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: – Added Twitter. – Added IRC. – Greatly improved group chats […]

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Google Chrome Beta Nearing, Some Features on Hold

If you’re waiting for Google’s Chrome browser for the Mac, a stable beta may not be that far away. Yesterday, TechCrunch pointed to to a Twitter posting from Mike Pinkerton of the Chrome for Mac team noting that there were only eight bugs remaining to be addressed before the Mac beta of Chrome is ready […]

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Apple Rumor

Apple Rumored to Buy Twitter

The latest pre-WWDC rumors don’t involve the iPhone, the Mac, or even Snow Leopard. The buzz making it’s way around the bloggosphere is that Apple has it’s eye on the social, micro-blogging service Twitter. The site TechCrunch has posted a report on the growing rumor of an Twitter buy-out: Today, though, rumors popped up that […]

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Mac Software

Adium beta Includes Twitter Connectivity

The Adium folks have been hard at work and one of the new features slated for version 1.4 is accessing Twitter accounts. That should come as no surprise considering the explosion of Twitter popularity and the development of software to access the service. As Zack West of the Adium blog put it: “For well over […]

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Software

Tweetie for Mac Coming Soon!

Who would have thought such a simple thing would become such a huge phenomenon? In a matter of months, it seems like Twitter has become a household name and “the next big thing”? You know it must be big, even Oprah is on Twitter now. News even broke that Ashton Kutcher beat out CNN to […]