[Adium-devl] Adium 1.0 press release

[Chris Forsythe]

Importing from Fire might be beneficial to mention, don't know if that's 
too much here though. Otherwise looks good.

Chris

Evan Schoenberg wrote:

> Thanks, Brian.  Suggestions from Brian and David (off-list) yield:
> ---
> The Adium team is proud to announce the release of Adium 1.0, the 
> premier free, open source multiprotocol instant messaging client for 
> Mac OS X.  Adium 1.0 brings over 600 enhancements and bug fixes, the 
> culmination of over a year and a half of development. New features 
> include a shiny new default appearance, an installation setup 
> assistant, improved account management, privacy management, iTunes Now 
> Playing status, optional Dock-like hiding of the contact list, 
> grouping of saved status messages, a chat transcript viewer with 
> improved searching, and much more.  AIM file transfer and Direct 
> Connect image transfer improvements, Yahoo invisible status, receiving 
> of MSN custom emoticons, and Google Talk buddy icons and typing 
> indication support are a few other notable additions.
>
> Adium 1.0 adds QQ messaging support to its repertoire of 13 services 
> which include AIM, MSN, Google Talk, and Yahoo; it is translated into 
> 20 languages.  Adium is fast, lightweight, and highly customizable. 
> Adium 1.0 can be downloaded  immediately from http://www.adiumx.com.
> ----
>
> Anything else?
>
> -Evan
>
> On Jan 31, 2007, at 2:05 PM, disposable at infinitenexus.com 
> <mailto:disposable at infinitenexus.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd say "setup assistant" as wizard is a Windows term, assistant is a 
>> Mac term. Also I'd say "over a year and a half" because it seems like 
>> longer ;) I also wouldn't call improving FT/DC a bug fix, even if it 
>> is, as it sounds defective/negative, but that's just me. 
>>
>> That's my .02 off the cuff. 
>>
>> - brian 'bgannin' ganninger
>>
>>
>> On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:
>>
>>> Proposed press release for 1.0 -- any suggested changes?
>>> -----
>>> The Adium team is proud to announce the release of Adium 1.0, the 
>>> premier free, open source multiprotocol instant messaging client for 
>>> Mac OS X.  Adium 1.0 brings over 600 enhancements and bug fixes, the 
>>> culmination of a year and a half of development. New features 
>>> include an improved default appearance, an installation setup 
>>> wizard, better management of messaging accounts, privacy management, 
>>> iTunes Now Playing status, optional Dock-like hiding of the contact 
>>> list, grouping of saved status messages, improved searching and 
>>> management of chat transcripts, and more.  A notable bug fix is 
>>> improved AIM file transfer and Direct Connect image transfer.
>>>
>>> Adium 1.0 adds QQ messaging support to its repertoire of 13 services 
>>> which include AIM, MSN, Google Talk, and Yahoo; it is translated 
>>> into 20 languages.  Adium is fast, lightweight, and highly 
>>> customizable. Adium 1.0 can be downloaded  immediately from 
>>> http://www.adiumx.com.
>>> ------
>>>
>>> -Evan
>>