Linkinus

Current Version: 1.3 (June 2, 2008)

Linkinus is an advanced IRC client for Mac OS X whose main draw is a clean, modern interface that is simple to use. Features include:

• Complete OS X integration and Aqua look-and-feel
• Interface/Agent architecture (allows detaching)
• Rules defining specific IRC behavior
• Dynamic content display with Styles
• Cross-session history capabilities
• Automated flood protection
• Aliases, Shortcuts, Highlights
• Cocoa Plug-ins, AppleScripts, and more.

While other Mac IRC clients may be:

• Inelegant and clunky, lacking many of the amenities of other Mac OS X apps (visual preferences, for instance)
• Very buggy
• Lacking a GUI
• So customizable that they just fall apart

. . . Linkinus aims to be none of these things, which is a worthy goal.

Version 1.3 adds a number of new features:

• New Multi Chat Split Mode
• Revamped graphical user interface
• Major performance improvements
• Automatic reconnection after unexpected disconnections or errors
• New and improved count badges for public messages, private messages and highlights
• Plain text or formatted logging
• Spotlight integration for log files
• New Autocompletion (Tab cycling through nicks, spacebar validation...)
• Improved auto-away behavior
• Automatic Away Nick
• Added option to Revert Color Selections
• Added option to show/hide IRC Message of the Day
• Fixed Unicode Problems
• Fixed a bug where messages would stop displaying
• Added contextual menus in the sidebars
• Added contextual menus in the chat view when clicking a nickname
• Added an option for default nicknames, usernames and realnames
• Support for /amsg and /ame
• Updated Sysinfo (now a plug-in with its own preference pane)
• Updated iTunes Script
• New Weather Script
• New Apps Script
• Added support for Logitech Control Center

Bug fixes are detailed in the online release notes.