The only chat application necessary on a Mac has just hit 1.0. Adium is the duck of all trades as far as instant messaging is concerned.

It works with AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and many more services. It comes with a great tabbed interface and the best option of all, customization!

Adium is fully customizable. From message list styles to contact list styles, colors, fonts, icons and even smilies. It’s got almost everything. Well almost everything.

Critics will argue that it doesn’t do voice or audio chat. Which it doesn’t, but neither do I or most of the people I talk to.

Incase you missed it, Yahoo released beta version 1 of their Yahoo Messenger 3 for the Mac. Overall, it’s an excellent leap forward.

Now, most reviews you might read about Yahoo Messenger Mac 3.0 Beta 1 will end up saying that Adium rocks and is superior in most ways. Were as I can’t deny that, I can stick to reviewing just Yahoo Messenger.

The old messenger was just that, old. It looked like it was built in the 90’s and it was simply lacking in most ways. The new messenger however brings style and usability back.