Adium

Adium works well. Yahoo is supported--not sure about Earthlink. Growl should work with either.

Have your Mac-using friends made sure that they are running the latest version of Adium? Adium also has the ability to make one "invisible" on all protocols that support it. Could it be that maybe they are not aware that they (or at least their AIM account) is set to this?

I am a Windows user who uses the most updated version of AIM to IM. I have two friends who log onto Adium with their Macs. ...

There is no such thing as "animated" icons in the Dock. You can change a Dock's icon to display useful information, and, if you wish for a "hack," you can simply change the icon over and over again in a loop to give the illusion of animation. Plenty of programs do this -- Adium (a chat program) does this. If you still wish to pursue this, read up on what monty posted. ...

Why not try the free Adium and see if you can use that? ...

Ok so I have had a macbook air for about 6 months and I downloaded Adium so I could IM my myspace friends. The problem is, I don't know how to add all my friends at once. ...

I think i have a fairly unique problem... I had installed Messenger for Mac 7, and it worked fine for a few days. After that, when i launched it, it would hang, and show me the color wheel. I would have to force quit in order to close it. That was fine, however when i tried an MSN clone (aMSN), i got the same thing, hang, color wheel, and eventually force quit. Fine, i...

How can I transfer my adium contacts from one email to my other adium account? ...

I can't create a new account b/c it doesn't stay up long enough for me to do anything!! It crashes right upon bootup. What do you mean by plist-related? Here are the details in case you're curious and can read this stuff: Thanks, Alra111

Adium crashes every single time I boot it up. I re-installed it. I rebooted my computer. Anything else I can do, or just find another IM client? Thanks, Alra111