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# by kestertaylor on 03/10/10 at 10:58:42

Sorry about the double post before. Dunno how that happened.

Anyhoo, I was just wondering if there's a way to prevent the Skype group from continually being recreated every time I start up Adium?

# by kestertaylor on 03/09/10 at 12:11:08

For anyone who's still upset about having to have the program open, I've come up with a fairly decent interim solution to make it *appear* as though Skype chat (text only, obviously) works seamlessly and exclusively within Adium.

1. Grab a program called Dock Dodger from here: http://foggynoggin.com/dockdodger . This app allows you to hide any program's menubar and Dock icon.

2. Go into Skype's preferences and turn off all of your in-app sound notifications (otherwise they'll double up with your Adium-based ones)

3. Use Dock Dodger on Skype and restart the program. Without the Dock icon the easiest way to access it is through Spotlight, Quicksilver, or another launcher program, though of course you can do it the old-fashioned way by going to Applications also.

4. Install this Adium/Skype plugin featured on this page. Restart Adium.

5. Voila! When you first launch Skype, you can just use Cmd + H to hide the chat and buddy list windows, and from there on out you will ONLY see/hear them in Adium, and only see the Adium buddy list.

# by kestertaylor on 03/09/10 at 12:11:08

For anyone who's still upset about having to have the program open, I've come up with a fairly decent interim solution to make it *appear* as though Skype chat (text only, obviously) works seamlessly and exclusively within Adium.

1. Grab a program called Dock Dodger from here: http://foggynoggin.com/dockdodger . This app allows you to hide any program's menubar and Dock icon.

2. Go into Skype's preferences and turn off all of your in-app sound notifications (otherwise they'll double up with your Adium-based ones)

3. Use Dock Dodger on Skype and restart the program. Without the Dock icon the easiest way to access it is through Spotlight, Quicksilver, or another launcher program, though of course you can do it the old-fashioned way by going to Applications also.

4. Install this Adium/Skype plugin featured on this page. Restart Adium.

5. Voila! When you first launch Skype, you can just use Cmd + H to hide the chat and buddy list windows, and from there on out you will ONLY see/hear them in Adium, and only see the Adium buddy list.

# by kestertaylor on 09/04/09 at 04:12:19

Seriously. One of the best icons of all time, with the added bonus that it uses the duck. So often with the best looking icons I feel weird because they don't remotely indicate that it's Adium I'm using (one of my long-time favorites is Windows Live Inspired, for example). Funny, fresh, brilliantly derivative.

-k.