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If you are a Mac OSX user and try to find out the right Instant Messenger IM Chat Client for you Mac OSX, might be this article would help you find the proper Instant Messenger for you and your Mac OSX. We would tell you that this Chat Client for Mac OSX would supports most of Protocol of Instant Messenger. That means Mac OSX Chat Client can be categories as Multi Protocol Instant Messenger or All in One Messenger, such as Yahoo Messenger, MSN aka Windows Live Messenger, Jabber, ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger aka AIM and more. Below you can read and find the proper IM Chat Client for Mac OSX. We would give you three All in One Messenger that supports and works with Mac OSX: Adium, Fire and Proteus.

Adium

As We told you above, Adium is Instant Messenger Application for Mac OSX that handle Multi Protocol Messenger or All in One Messenger. For short explanation or review of Adium you can read quote from Adium official website below:

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X, released under the GNU GPL and developed by the Adium team. With Adium, you can connect to any number of messaging accounts on any combination of supported messaging services and then chat with other people using those services. Note: We do not host any IM services ourselves. Adium is a third-party client for connecting to services run by other people (mostly companies)

Adium can connect to several IM Services: AIM, ICQ, MobileMe, MSN / WLM, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger, Bonjour, MySpace IM, Lotus Sametime, Novell Groupwise, QQ, Gadu-Gadu and more. It run under GPL license.

Proteus

Proteus is Multi Messenger Chat Client aka All in One Messenger that work for Mac OSX. Just like an Adium, Proteus can connects to several IM Services. AOL Instant Messenger AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, Lotus Sametime, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Messenger Japan, Gadu Gadu, iChat Bonjour, Jabber, Microsoft Messenger aka MSN aka Windows Live Messenger WLM are the supported IM service in Proteus.

Proteus is an all-in-one instant messaging client for Mac OS X similar to Adium and Fire. In one single application, a wide range of different accounts and protocols can be connected to, ridding us of the need to run multiple applications (Source: Proteus in Google Code). Proteus is an Instant Messenger that uses the IM framework libpurple and is written using Mac OS X’s API Cocoa. Proteus attempts to bridge the gap between functionality and beauty, using native the Mac interface with a powerful core to get your hard core instant messaging done (Source: Proteusx.org)

Of course Proteus is free software under GNU License. Feel free to use it and download it.

Fire

Fire is another Free Multi Protocol Chat Client Instant Messenger for Mac OSX. It supports the seven most popular Instant Messaging services: AIM®, ICQ®, irc, Jabber® (including Google® Talk and Apple® iChat Server), MSN®, Yahoo! Messenger®, Apple Bonjour® (aka Rendezvous).

According recent announcement from developer of Fire, Fire is no longer developed right now.

We are saddened to announce that there will be no future versions of Fire. There are several reasons for this end, but the most notable is the loss of developers. Fire’s development had dwindled to few developers who do not wish to continue the project alone. In addition, another major contributing factor is the fact that all but one of Fire’s IM libraries is no longer in active development.

That are the 3 of Mac OSX Chat Client Instant Messenger. All set to be free. You wanna add more? Just mentions it in the comment below.