I thought since all of the latest blog entries I've made have only been working towards revealing my inner nerdiness, I would continue this trend by making a list of my OS X programs I've found outside of Apple's offerings.

Adium is a chat client that aims to compete with Apple's iChat. What has always bothered me about iChat is the inability to control the order of displayed contacts; I believe the only two options iChat offers are alphabetical and an organization based on who is available, idle, away, offline, etc. Adium allows you to organize contacts however you want, and allows you to access your AIM, ICQ, .MacIM, Jabber, Yahoo!, and GTalk buddy lists in the same place. You can control how chats are displayed (color schemes, styles [thankfully no chat bubbles!] etc), and you can have all of your chats displayed in one tabbed Safari-like browser that you can just tab through. The program also keeps automatically saves chat transcripts, something that has been really useful for me when I've lost phone numbers or meeting times/dates...