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Looks like everyone’s favorite IM client on the Mac, Adium will be getting a major upgrade following the launch of upgrade. Most notable new feature is ofcourse AV Chat on Adium.  The Adium team has been busy and you can expect Adium 2 to be released very soon.

Adium is the most used IM Client on OS X, but for a long due to inevitable comparisons with Apple’s own iChat, Adium lacked AV Chat and finally it is going to trump iChat in all respects.

Well this release has taken particularly more time than the previous release, but this is because of the dependency of Adium on the Pidgin Project for its core functionality. Pidgin also seems to be getting some nice upgrades.

Well here is a screenshot of Adium that has got the redefined Leopard look that looks a lot more cleaner and well laid out,

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Well our friend MacWorld has some amazing tips for you to install Leopard on your existing Mac. There are quite a few gems in there and I suggest you read through them if you are planning to upgrade to Leopard the moment it comes out on the 26th. Well the steps might actually look quite silly, first of all I would suggest you clean up your hard drive, remove apps you don’t use anymore and a host of other things that you should do to have your Mac running as smooth as it’s been running now. .

Well there are things that are hidden for the average user like the hidden corners of the hard disk that have accumulated a lot of dust over the past few months of usage. Well if you want to start clean then read through this,

• In /Library, /Library/Application Support, ~/Library, and ~/Library/Application Support, look for folder names matching applications you no longer use, and delete them.
• Your /Library and ~/Library folders may contain other folders that store components of third-party utilities. Look in Application Enhancers, Bundles, Contextual Menu Items, InputManagers, and PreferencePanes for any system enhancements you no longer use, and drag them to the Trash.

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