Adium 01: Download and Installation

This is the first of (hopefully) many tutorials that I will be providing on this site. I have been wanting to post some tutorials on my site for quite some time. However, I never had the resources (legally) before. Initially, I was thinking of creating some basic Mac OS X tutorials. In the last few months, Apple has posted many excellent tutorials, covering almost all of their programs and devices. There are a lot of excellent, free apps that are lacking solid video support documentation. I have a lot to learn about video tutorials, but I have to start somewhere. As with the rest of my site, hopefully someone finds this helpful. Please leave a comment if you are so inclined.

Summary

Adium is a free download from www.adiumx.com.

Once you have downloaded the most recent version of Adium, double click the .dmg file you just downloaded. A window will appear. Follow the graphical instructions contained therein.

Click the lozenge button at the top right corner of the window (looks like a pill). The Finder window should now look different. Move your mouse to the left side of the window. Near the top left, you should find an icon titled Adium #.#.#. "Eject" that icon by clicking the gray eject button immediately to the right of that icon. Finder should eject the .dmg file and close Finder.

Find the downloaded .dmg file, and drag it to the trash.

Open Finder from the dock* (the farthest right icon) and open the Applicatins folder (there should be a shortcut to the Applications in Finder's left sidebar.

The Adium icon should appear near the top of the window.

Click (and hold) the icon with your left mouse button. While still holding the mouse button down, drag the icon down to the dock.

To begin using Adium, click the icon in the dock.

Follow the on-screen steps, providing your account information.

If you don't have a chat account, you can get a free account at the following popular locations (please note that many chat accounts are associated with email services such as hotmail):

• Hotmail
• Yahoo
• Gmail
• AOL

* For those who are totally new to Mac, the Dock is the row of icons that (usually) appears at the bottom of the screen.