AIM for Mac 2.1 Beta is here!
Posted Oct 22nd 2009 3:58PM by Lee Givens
Filed under: Beta News, AIM for Mac
I'm guessing what you're thinking - "Didn't AOL release AIM for Mac 2.0 just last month?" We sure did, but we're not going to stop until we make AIM for Mac the IM leader on the Mac. Since we're done with Lifestream (well, we'll be working on new versions of Lifestream too!), we're going to focus on stability, bug fixes and features our users have asked for over the past year. Head over to AOL Beta Central to download AIM for Mac 2.1 Beta 1 today!
Here's what's new in AIM for Mac 2.1 Beta 1:
- Added "Email..." to the Buddy List contextual menu and "Gear" menu to allow for easy webmail message composition.
- Added Apple Menu Item under People > Send Email...
- Added Edit > Paste and Match Style to the Menu Items.
- Single-sign on for AIM to AOL Webmail.
- Camera icon has been added to the Buddy status on Buddy List if a photo has been published in Buddy status.
- Improved accessibility (VoiceOver) feature for Group Row Theme button (will now read button description).
- Various user interface improvements.
Fixed Issues in this release:
- Fixed issue where user is logged off and results in AIM rate limiting.
- Accessibility: Fixed various labeling bugs that resulted in ambiguous or empty text when using VoiceOver.
- Fixed issues with Away Message reporting to users on your Buddy List.
- Fixed issues that prevented opening AOL webmail.
- Fixed IM conversation window scrolling that made long conversations hard to read.
- Added Font Scale to IM conversation preference (under IM Preference pane).
- View Buddy Feed has been changed to View Lifestream.
- Various bug fixes and improvements.
Lee Givens
AOL Mac/iPhone Product Lead
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Welcome to the Mac@AOL Blog. My name is Lee Givens and I'm the Product Lead for the Mac and iPhone products at AOL. You can find the latest information on AOL's software development on the Mac and any cool happenings at AOL. The purpose of the blog is to create a feedback loop so we can hear from our loyal AOL Mac users. Managing a blog is a lot of work, so I enlisted support from the whole team...the Mac team is made up of dedicated Macintosh developers, QA engineers and Product folks.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
1. Dear Mac@AOL,
I'm having a problem signing in to AIM using the 2.1 Beta. I'm running OS 10.4.11, and when I sign in, I'm automatically signed out without an error message immediately after my Buddy List appears. This problem only seems to affect one screen name on the account; other screen names can sign in without any issues.
I found another post that describes an identical problem, but the solution proposed there didn't work for me: http://messageboards.aol.com/aol/en_us/articles.php?boardId=451086&articleId=20222&func=6&channel=Computers+%26+Electronics&filterRead=false&filterHidden=true&filterUnhidden=false
I'd appreciate any suggestions you could offer. Thanks for your help.
Posted at 9:46PM on Nov 9th 2009 by Dustin