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AIM for Mac keeps you connected to the people you care about right on your Mac. AIM for Mac supports AIM Expressions, AIM File Transfer and supports friendly names - no more hard-to-remember screen names. Connect with friends and family and keep track of status and presence updates in real time.
Beta 1: Release notes currently unavailable. Known issues: - Sending an Offline IM may cause offline recipient to receive duplicate copies of your IM
- Long status messages can get cut off on Buddy Flyouts
Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel Mac
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| Developer: | AOL |
| Downloads: | 72,433 |
| - Version d/l: | 693 |
| Internet: | Chat |
| License: | Free |
| Date: | 29 Sep 2008 |
| Platform: | PPC/Intel |
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| AIM for Mac User Reviews (82 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 29 2008 |
MISHA I really don't see the advantage of this over iChat, except a slightly different interface. It definitely has advantages over Adium for some things (file transfers, mostly, which still are painful with Adium over AIM), but so does iChat. Still, it's good to see AOL continuing to develop this, I suppose.
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 | Sep 29 2008 |
STORMCHILD AIM file transfers work perfectly fine in Adium, and always have. I think maybe you're thinking of MSN file transfers, which are still excruciatingly slow in all third-party MSN clients, including Adium. But AIM file transfers have never been an issue for me.
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| Sep 29 2008 |
MISHA I wish I could say the same thing, but from my experience Adium-Adium transfers work ok, but iChat-Adium transfers fail more than 50% of the time. Usually the person on the receiving doesn't even see that I'm sending a file to them. But if they switch to iChat (so it's iChat-iChat) it goes off without a hitch. There was a time when Adium transfers were REALLY poor (years ago) and they have improved since then, but the reliability from my use still isn't at the level it typically is with iChat. I've also been impressed with the reliability of iChat's transfers. I've sent 2GB files over iChat without it failing, when attempts to send smaller files with Adium have choked after a while (my company had multiple VLANs set up so Bonjour wasn't an option).
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| Jul 29 2008 |
MAC4DREW I like it. Fast, clean, and stable on an Intel Mac, just like AIM for OS 9 used to be on my old iBook. No ads, just pure classic AIM goodness. They have attained almost feature parity with the previous Mac version, which is also very cool. Some things missing: notifications and the ability to change sounds (which I believe can both be added via a plugin on the AIM Lite website http://x.aim.com/laim/ ) and video/audio chat, which cannot be added. I use Adium for most of my instant messaging, but it still doesn't handle Direct IM or AIM chats very well. It crashes ALL THE TIME for me. If you ever use Direct IM or AIM Chats, you should be pleasantly surprised by this little program. It hasn't crashed once since I started using it. Only problem is, it only seems possible to save images received from Direct IM as low-quality GIFs. It prints images on the screen in full quality but then won't save them as anything but a low quality GIF. Please, AOL, update this some more... there are some people out there who appreciate it.
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| May 7 2008 |
TOMIS Don't waste your bandwidth. The interface needs a complete overhaul. Very bare-bones and awkward. Feels like a weird cross between the old Carbon port and a modern Cocoa app. It's going to be a while until this is anywhere near being a replacement for iChat.
(Version 0.8.6) | |
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| Jan 7 2008 |
RORO01 What are the advantages of this application over iChat?
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| Jan 7 2008 |
THREEDEE Wow, after almost 3 years, AIM for Mac has actually been updated?
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| Jan 7 2008 |
PISSNAROUND well, this has any number of problems which I have to assume is because its a beta version, although it doesnt say so. It crashes when I quit the app, it doesnt scroll text correctly in message windows, and I have to install a new copy every time I want to use it. otherwise it's fine... :o)
(Version 0.8.6) | |
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 | Dec 8 2007 |
ENLIGHTENED411 * How-to Use ADIUM instead of the Outdated AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Why use ADIUM instead of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)? 1) Because AIM hasn't been updated since 18 Feb 2004 (almost 4 yrs)! 2) Because you can use ADIUM to maintain your AIM presence online ADIUM is not only Free (donations helpful), it is up-to-date and one of the top universal chat clients. Universal in that it interfaces with all chat accounts (AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and more) Get ADIUM right here on MacUpdate: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6366 http://enlightened411.wordpress.com/
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 | Aug 8 2006 |
ARUCH1 I recently got the G5 mac for school, and have had problems with AOL i/m 4.7 and mozilla firefox randomly "quitting". It's extremely annoying and I don't know what to do to fix it! I called applecare once and she told me to empty my cache files but that hasnt quite done the trick.
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| Oct 1 2006 |
LEANNA ASSID same things happens here. i'm always disconnected when it says it suddenly quit. whats the deal?
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| Feb 18 2006 |
ST00P!D M0NK3Y Even though this app is 2 years old, it still seems faster, more stable, and less buggy than it's newer Windows counterpart. Despite that, why in the heck did they stop supporting new updates? Oh my gosh! Download the new Macintosh version! Oh wait...it was released in 2004. AOL needs to get up off their rears and come out with a new Mac OS X version because this is freaking ridiculous.
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| Dec 4 2005 |
N0DL Hello my sister just happily purchased an imac G5 (the imac with the isight camera built in and ibooth etc) sorry if i got the model number wrong... I am an MAC newbie after all... Anyway, While my sister runs OSX tiger, I run linux(ubuntu). Whenever my sister is running AIM4.7 it disconnects my sister out of random. An error message saying "AIM has suddenly quit". At first i thought it was becuase me and my sister were logged on AIM at the same time. So I logged off but that did not solve the problem. The only thing i have been running besides my browser was an irc client (irssi to be specific). Does anyone have any idea what the problem is or how to fix this? A happy new non-windows using family.
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