Adium Beta withdrawal symptoms

So the Adium betas are out and are rather nice, it must be said. Currently we're sitting on beta four released on July 8th. Four days later and still no beta five! What kinda crazy world is this? Up until now the Adium team were knocking out betas every day or two!

For those of you living under a rock for the last few years, Adium is, in my opinion, the best multi-protocol chat client about, handling MSN, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Google, Jabber and numerous more IM networks. Although, for me that really doesn't matter, since here in the UK almost everybody uses MSN... sorry, Windows Live Messenger (jus' slips off the tongue doesn't it?). Still, Adium whips MSN for Mac's arse, which is still stuck at version five, whilst Windows users enjoy version eight is it these days? Now you don't see Apple only giving Windows users iTunes 4 do you?

But anyway, for beta Adium seems pretty stable. I've only had one crash so far. Reported it, and found it was fixed the next day. Impressive.

Adam Betts, designer of the love-it-or-hate-it Adium duck icon has released a fresh set of Adium duck icons including a rather sexy black one, which my dock is currently sporting. I imagine these will be incorporated into Adium in the coming betas.

There's a new status - "♫ iTunes", which appears to be something to do with setting your currently playing iTunes music as your status, but I can't quite figure it out. Maybe 'cause I'm on the MSN network, which from what I know in my very limited use of the Yahoo! and AIM networks seems a bit behind. Also, Adium, or should I say Gaim, still doesn't support MSN Personal Messages, my pet annoyance with the Adium experience.

But alas, Adium betas are finally here. Bring on version one.