Colloquy - convenient client for IRC

In August, computer scientists around the world will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the creation of IRC. Now this protocol is not very popular with the bulk of users, but a lot of developers and programmers still prefer it. And if the council is required by "technical topic" (the choice of plug-in for Movable Type, on development issues iPhone applications, etc.), then it is likely that you will get faster care in one of the rooms in IRC.

To work with the IRC, you can use web browsers (Opera has a built-in client, and for Mozilla Firefox is a special extension), but it is more convenient to install a separate application. After some searching, I stopped at the Colloquy.

In my opinion it is in the program user-friendly interface, there is a spell checker, an AppleScript support. The user can change the style of presentation of the text, send / receive files, expand the capabilities of the program by installing plug-ins.

There are no problems with the encoding. If, for example, in Opera, you can choose the encoding of the entire server, the Colloquy for each room can be your settings. An interesting point, which can be studied -

work with iPhone (Or iPod Touch). But due to lack of the device, providing the opportunity to explore the topic more lucky readers :)

website Developer: Colloquy
Price: is free