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Managing multiple chats in Adium

Pt. 7 of 10 | 2:20 |

Beginner's Guide to Adium

Tuesday April 21, 2009

Some people are really good at multitasking. Some people get overwhelmed by too much action on their desktop. Luckily, Adium gives you some great ways to manage multiple chats whether you're a great multitasker or not. You can nest chats in one window or have each chat in its own window; the choice is yours.

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Show Notes

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

- Open Adium.

- By default, when you're chatting, all of the sessions appear in one window.

- When each person sends a message their message tag blinks and, if enabled, makes a sound. For some people this gets to be confusing, but Adium provides a solution:

- Left-click on name tab and pull away from the main group. That chat will now be in an individual window.

- You can do this with each remaining chat tab. Just left-click, hold, and pull the window to a new location.

- You can also nest chat windows into a single group by reversing the process.

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