If you like using Apple’s free IM client, iChat, but wished you could use such features as tabs like the other clients (like SvenOnTech favorite Adium,) you now can. Chax is a free software application that adds such features as tabs, font customization, animated user icons, idle time in tool tips, Address Book nickname displays, as well as messaging a screen name for people with multiple screen names. It’s all free but the author would appreciate your donation if you really like it. I think you may want to help him continue his efforts with this great add-on.

[Via Lifehacker]

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