AIM for Mac 2.1 is now available for download
Posted Jun 15th 2010 9:00AM by Larry Aasen
Filed under: Announcements, AIM for Mac
Don't have an AIM account? No worries, you can simply sign in with your Facebook Login.
AIM is better than ever! Faster, lighter, and with great new features to help you get organized. Now you can use AIM to chat with your Facebook friends - chat with them in AIM whether they're AIM users or not.
The new Lifestream tab lets you get all your social network updates in one place. Say it once and send it everywhere! Comment, like and update your Facebook, MySpace and Twitter status – all from AIM.
Features:
- Chat with your AIM Buddies and Facebook friends.
- Get your updates from Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and more.
- Comment, like and update your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace status right from AIM.
- Let friends easily find you - Add Your First and Last Name.
- Sign in as invisible.
Click here to download.
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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. Looking good Lee - I'll have to investigate the new features.
Mark
Posted at 10:05PM on Jun 15th 2010 by Mark Thibault
2. Lee, stop worrying about AIM and Facebook, which is concerned mostly with the 18-49 year old group.
More important to me is how AOL Mail functions. It still leaves a lot to be desired!!!! Fix that, why don't you, especially for Mac users!!!
Posted at 10:14AM on Jun 16th 2010 by nanschus
3. comment confirmed
Posted at 10:15AM on Jun 16th 2010 by nanschus
4. I upgraded to the new 2.1 and ALL my buddies were freaking deleted by AOL. I have NO contact lists now!!! and the annoying popup facebook banner everytime i log in is ANNOYING!! get rid of it!
Posted at 8:06PM on Jun 17th 2010 by xanax28
5. ALL my buddies have been deleted and I DIDN'T EVEN CHANGE ANYTHING! I DIDN'T UPGRADE!!!! The old AIM (thru iChat) worked fine yesterday but now my buddies list is BLANK. Started to manually add all my buddies back in and it gives me the error message "The request failed" WTF! So this new AIM no longer works with iChat?
Posted at 8:56PM on Jun 17th 2010 by Miranda
6. Long time listener, first-time caller here...
This is neat. Happy to dig into 2.1 to try and make it an iChat replacement. I have some feedback/questions at first glance.
- How come my unread count appears in the tooltip for Lifestream? It already shows in the tab.
- Why can't I see the presence-state (e.g. Away, Idle) of buddies without hovering over them? (It reduces clutter, but I'm curious if that's why.)
- Why is the Welcome Page on by default for sign-in?
- Why is Flip the default behavior for transitions? (Guess I'd like Slide since it's suggested by the horizontal alignment of the tabs already.)
- Does the window width really need to change when changing transitions? (Seems jarring. I'm glad I can change the behavior in a setting, tho.)
- Why is response-typing visibility off by default?
- When changing my avatar, I don't see the change represented in the top form.
- I expected the camera icon for the "what's happening" form to take webcam pictures instead of launching a form for image uploading. Is there a way to easily take a photo to include in an update?
- Why can I "comment" on tweets in Lifestream? Twitter users most likely expect "reply" as nomenclature.
- Seems like commenting on Facebook may automatically post to Lifestream and Twitter by default if I've added those services. How do I prevent this?
- Pressing the Enter key in the search form for Lifestream doesn't seem to work.
- Why do search results for Lifestream open a browser?
- Video chat?
I love that Application Logging is available to me as a knowledgeable user. That's very neat.
I love the content filtering for Lifestream. (e.g. photos, videos)
Overall, it's a wonderful start. Excited to see more.
Posted at 5:34PM on Jul 23rd 2010 by Chris Wetherell
7. I would switch to AIM if it did the video conferencing. I also would like to be able to, as mentioned above, be able to see idle away without having to hover. I would also like to see Chax features (plug-in for iChat) like an activity log of logins, gone idle, and logouts.
Posted at 5:30PM on Jul 23rd 2010 by Dave
8. Looking good Lee - I'll have to investigate the new features
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