I note with amusement my pal Damien's post on TUAW regarding the release of the 1.0b1 version of Adium, in which he writes, "Please note that this is still in beta, though I was using it last night without any significant problems presenting themselves." I realize TUAW's audience includes many non-geek types, who are happily using iChat, and haven't yet discovered Adium, but it still brought a grin to my face to see a somewhat boilerplate beta-warning line for software that, while technically still in development, has been very stable--for me, at least--over the past year I've been using it. This is the first version I've seen with the 1.0 moniker attached to it in any form. If you don't use the voice and video chat features of iChat much, you should check out Adium (new beta). It supports multiple chat protocols (AIM, Yahoo, MSN Messenger, Jabber (Gtalk), ICQ, IRC, and more...), has a logging feature I have found most useful in finding URIs or other bits of info I forgot to note elsewhere, and is open source, so there's no proprietary lock-in, if that's something you're concerned about.