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iChat is a wonderful app for Mac OS X and it has some uber cool features that are not found in the modern day IM Clients. Chax is the app that adds up more onto iChat. By uisng Chax you are going to be making your iChat chats a lot more enjoyable. Here is what Chax can do :

User list:

• Toggle text status visibility of users
• Automatically resize the contact list to fit the number of visible users
• Set font of names, status messages, and group separators
• Show animated user icons
• Ability to hide iTunes music store links in text statuses
• Idle time included in tooltips
• Display Address Book nicknames instead of full names
• Option to show a warning before messaging mobile users
• Hide the audio/video status icon at the top of the user list
• Message a specific screen name for people with multiple screen names

Message window:

• Tabbed chats, allowing you to keep all of your chats together in one window
• Option to auto-accept text chats, skipping new message notification window
• Show status changes directly in the message window
• Disable the smiley button in text input lines
• Option to open images sent through direct connect directly in Preview
• Send away auto-reply only once per conversation
• Save and restore window positions for individual screen names

Other:

• Unread message notification in the dock
• Growl notifications for new messages and users changing status
• Properly use ICQ accounts without sending text formatting in messages
• Automatically set status to away when screensaver is activated
• Option to auto-accept file transfers
• Hide all iChat windows when iChat is inactive
• Always on top option for user lists, text chats, and audio or video chats
• Set a custom away auto-reply that is different from the away message
• Change the delay of or disable auto-away
• New message windows cascade properly instead of always appearing on top of each other
• Built-in log viewer
• Activity window shows history of user status changes
• Warn before quitting while there are active chats
• Option to disable pausing of AV chats while there are active file transfers
• Disable picture-in-picture in video chats
• Automatically reconnect when disconnected
• Disable alert sounds when away, idle, or available

Here are some screenshots of Chax in action :

                 

                

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