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Adding contacts from other IMs to Adium

Pt. 2 of 10 | 2:29 |

Beginner's Guide to Adium

Tuesday April 14, 2009

When you have contacts that all use different instant messaging networks it can be hard to stay in touch. Enter Adium. You can add all your contacts from a wide variety of messaging services and have everyone in one easy-to-use interface. Adium is a great way to manage multiple IM clients, all in one place.

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Show Notes

Download Adium for the Mac and follow along with this tutorial series

- To add contacts you first have to add Accounts.

- Remember that you must already have established accounts on any IM service you want to connect to via Adium.

- Click on File and then on Add Account. Select the IM network you want to add.

- Enter your username and password and click OK.

- Click on Contacts and then on Add Contact.

- Select the network from the drop-down menu and type in your contacts screen name.

- Assign them to a group and click OK.

- When the contact has approved you, you'll be able to instant message with them from Adium.

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