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AIM for Mac 2.0 with Lifestream

Posted Sep 30th 2009 8:34PM by Lee Givens
Filed under: Announcements, AIM for Mac

AIM for Mac 2.0 is now available! We've spent months integrating Send messages to your friends and family instantly. We've gotten a lot of feedback from our AIM for Mac users wanting to get a better idea of what a "Lifestream" really is and how it can help you on a day-to-day basis. What's really cool, we launched AIM Lifestream across our entire product line, from Mac to Mobile (iPhone and Windows Mobile) and to Windows and AIM Express.

Lifestream helps you stay in touch with your AIM, Facebook, Twitter friends and more. This means that you can click once and view status from your favorite social networks without having to launch a browser. You can view up-to-date status messages, get a count of new social networking notifications right on the Lifestream tab and you can even post photos or comment directly under the Lifestream tab. While we were at it, we made AIM faster and lighter with an all-new Buddy status area.

You can also head over to AIM Lifestream (http://lifestream.aim.com) on the web to access your Lifestream, the settings page or post a comment.

Keep Tabs On Your Buddies

The new Lifestream feature lets you stay on top of what your AIM Buddies are doing by allowing you to add a variety of accounts such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Get status updates from your AIM Buddies, post photos and leave comments to stay connected.

Post Real Time Comments

Leave comments for your friends instantly. When you leave a comment on a friend's AIM Lifestream, the comment will post back to Facebook, Twitter and others.

We've Stepped It Up a Notch

This new version of AIM will run faster and use less of your Mac's resources.

Custom Buddy Icons

Custom Buddy Icon editor made it's debut in AIM for Mac 1.5, but we think it's so cool, we wanted to highlight this feature in our newest AIM for Mac. Use your built-in iSight® camera to create a new Buddy Icon or select a graphic file from your Mac. Once you've selected an image, apply a special image effect for a uniquely customized Buddy Icon. You can also browse through our AIM Expressions library.

Check out AIM for Mac 2.0 today and drop the AOL Mac Team some feedback below.

Thanks!
Lee Givens
AOL Mac and iPhone Product Lead

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

1. Hi Lee,

Are there still plans to incorporate A/V into Aim for Mac? I know at one point something said summer as a target, so is there a new target, or is it no longer on the roadmap?

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Hey Brad,
Yes, we're still looking into A/V support and since our goal is to provide a great A/V experience, this feature will take a bit to get implemented. I'll keep you posted here on the Mac@AOL blog for more info.

Thanks!
Lee Givens
AOL Mac/iPhone Product Lead

Posted at 3:40PM on Oct 12th 2009 by Brad

2. I'd like to see an option to turn off Lifestream on the ipod/iphone AIM Client.
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Hey Jason,
I'll get your feedback to the team. Right now, if you don't add any social networks to your Lifestream, it's essentially off.

Thanks!
Lee Givens
AOL Mac/iPhone Product Lead

Posted at 8:59PM on Oct 18th 2009 by Jason

3. AIM for Mac 2.0 crashes constantly on me. I stay signed on while I'm home and when I come back into the room, it's crashed quite often. Sometimes I'll set the Away message before I go out and when I come home, it's crashed. No other applications running. Sometimes if I'm in another application (Safari or iTunes), it will crash then.

I really disappointed. I didn't have this problem with the beta versions.

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Hello Brian,
We've fixed a few issues with AIM for Mac in our 2.1 beta. Can you try out AIM for Mac 2.1 Beta 1 (http://beta.aol.com/projects.php?project=aimformac2 )

Let me know if this takes care of the crashing issue.

thanks!
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Lee Givens
AOL Mac/iPhone Product Lead

Posted at 3:45PM on Oct 19th 2009 by Brian

4. Hi Lee,
I was wondering if you guys were going to implement Vid chat sometime in the near future. Also I wanted to know if you guys were going to go with the big icon feature as with aim 7 on windows because I noticed the icons I put are the tiny ones of the old aim clients before 7.

Thanks :D

Posted at 6:46PM on Nov 24th 2009 by Andre

5. Hey, I just wanted to say that I wish you could use the font colors on your computer and not the ones only on aim for mac beta 2.1.... The colors aren't the best picks, especially since the pink and green are very bright.

Thanks, Fannie

Posted at 1:53PM on Dec 6th 2009 by Fannie

6. Hey, Lifestream for aim used to work flawlessly for me, but lately it's been giving me a problem with the settings. I have all of my accounts' statuses linked (facebook, youtube, twitter), but every once in a while my Facebook and Youtube accounts get unchecked on my Lifestream settings page, and therefore do not get updated with the status I post on AIM. If any, I would appreciate some suggestions. Thanks!

Posted at 2:46PM on Dec 11th 2009 by Deniz Turgut

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