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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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18 January 2002 - 4:40 pm
I've written before about deadaim, a program that removes the ads from AOL Instant Messenger, and I've more recently told you about my flirtation with trillian, an AIM replacement program with no ads and support for multiple messenger clients. The problem with deadaim is that it hasn't been updated for almost a year, it crashes under XP, and the site's webpage at www.jdennis.net seems to have disappeared. My problems with trillian are related to the fact that it doesn't support all of AIM's features in favor of supporting the basics of many chat programs, none of which I use.
Since neither deadaim nor trillian worked as well as I had hoped, and AIM's flashing ads were a big distraction, I set out to find a program that accomplished one small task: remove AIM's ads without crashing the program. There were a variety of solutions that removed the ads but left the space where the ads were supposed to be, which looked a bit crappy. Then I found AIM+. It removes the ads and has a message history where it keeps track of all your old conversations (if you turn it on). It also has transparency support and the ability to remove the buttons at the bottom of the buddy list. Everyone who currently uses deadaim or wants to get rid of AIM's ads should download AIM+.
Posted by on 18 January 2002 at 4:41 PM
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