Plugin Title: Free2IM
by snguyen

"Free2IM (aka AIM Translator) is an AOL AIM plugin that help you chat with the buddies who speak languages you are very weak or even you do not know at all. It's useful for you to practice your foreign languages as well. This first version it supports 13 languages."

How to get it?

1. Download this plugin here.

2. Unzip and execute the installer

3. Restart AIM

Full information & instructions here.

(Prerequisite) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is installed.

How to use it?

After installing Free2IM, we'll see the option "Free2IM Settings" in the actions menus. A page will be appeared after you click the option and will help to adjust the settings. We can enable/disable the translator in both directions incoming and outgoing, as long as we can select the language pair which will be translated.

There is an option to skip translating if the other side is also using Free2IM.

Plugin Title: HotBlueConquestPlugin
by hotblue

"Play HotBlue Conquest with a buddy on AIM! The goal is domination. Control a block by being the last person to close a block. A player who closes a block keeps his turn, allowing him to close more blocks. The player with the most blocks occupied wins!"

REQUIREMENTS: .NET Framework 2.0

URL: http://www.hotblue.com/HotblueConquestPlugin

Plugin Title: LinkProcessor
by roma

"Do you want to see YouTube video right in your AIM window once your friend send to you link? With LinkProcessor you can do this. And it's not only thing that you can do. How about listen music that your friend send to you again right from your AIM window? With LinkProcessor you can do this"

"You can set up LinkPreview to process any kind of links. So, with LinkPreview you can listen radio, listen music, see video, see images, and it's only default settings. And you can configure it to anything that you want."

Download & Install the plugin here.

Full Instructions here.

Works for YouTube links, mp3's, .xspf, .gif and more.

And don't forget that you can setup other types of links as well, check out settings form for this plugin. But in order to do this, you should be familar with JavaScript regex and HTML. And if you create super cool settings for this plugin and you would like to share it with your friends, just copy APPDATA\acccore\nss\linkprocessor.b64 file to your friends computer.

Plugin Titile: Gundoff
by Rizvanov_de_xXx

There are a lot of web sites in the internet that may harm your computer. Links on these sites are transmitted via internet messengers frequently. The Gundoff plugin can help you to prevent visiting a lot of them...

You can download the plugin here


Please send all feedback to gundoff.aim@gmail.com

.NET Framework 2.0 is required

Application Name: Professional IM Client
by sb99

"Professional IM Client has the following special features apart from sending and receiving instant messages and managing buddies and groups

1. Listen to Instant messages.
You can Listen to the received or sent instant messages. If you were away for sometime and you have a lot of IMs in your window, just select all the received IMs text and click on Listen IM button. The software will read out all the text for you !

2. RSS Feeds
The client software has RSS Feed reader that let you receive the RSS feeds.

3. Share your desktop's snap with your buddy
You can now show your buddy how your desktop looks ! You can use this feature for fun or for some serious activity. When you are struck up at some point and you wish to communicate to your buddy where you are struck up, just click on a button and your buddy will be able to see your desktop's snap.

4. Inbuilt word suggest
Word suggest feature lets you minimize the number of keystrokes you hit while sending an instant message. Now, you can type a few characters and the word suggest provides you with the best possible words. Just press Ctrl key to let the word suggest type the complete word for you."

UPDATE 5/5: Address Book
Now add manage your friends' information using the address book functionality. You can store and retrieve the address, contact details along with any personal comments about a friend. The search feature lets you quickly retrieve your friends' details.


If you have any comments please feel free to drop a mail to sb99TC@gmail.com

http://sb99tc.googlepages.com/ProfessionalIM.html

Plugin Title: ZhAssist
by novar

"ZhAssist helps you communicate in and learn Chinese or English in a natural, border-free online environment, opening AIM up to a whole new world of users.

"Suitable for everyone from beginning learners to native speakers needing a quick dictionary now and again, ZhAssist offers a powerful suite of translation tools for conversing in Chinese (Or English!) and hopes to help foster international growth of and open dialog through AIM."

Simply download the easy-install package and run it to begin, ZhAssist will automatically detect and help out when you receive a message in Chinese.

URL: http://novar.3fkumi.net/
Documentation: http://novar.3fkumi.net/zhassist/
Direct app: http://novar.3fkumi.net/ZhAssist-1.0.exe

Plugin Title: AnimalSound
by aminallam

"Would you like to include animal sounds with your messages? Install the "AnimalSound" plugin and it will do the task for you. Just you will need to include animal name in your message text and the plugin will detect it and play its sound. The sound will be played also at your buddy's part if he has the plugin installed."



How to use:

Download the plugin here.

Just take care that the animal name will still be displayed in your message text.

To get the list of supported animal sounds, send a message (to anyone) consisting of the plugin name "AnimalSound".

Include one or more of these words in your message to hear its sound: bird, cat, canary, cow, coyote, crow, cuckoo, dog, duck, elephant, frog, goose, hawk, horse, lion, monkey, owl, panther, parrot, rooster, seagull, sheep, snake, turkey, and wolf.

Close AIM completely from the tray icon before installing this plugin. You may send feedback to aminallam@aim.com.

Plugin Title: Album Share
by amiune

"The AlbumShare plugin allows you to share a photo album with your friends. You don't need to worry about resizing each photo or uploading one by one. Just choose the folder and you and your friends will be seeing the same photo at the same time so you can tell them about it."

Download the plugin here.

UPDATE 5/6: now both user can interact switching the photos, and they can rotate, flip, and save each image.

Plugin Title: SmileyFeelingsInserter
by aminallam

"Would you like to express your feelings by inserting smiley feelings (emoticons) inside your messages? Would you like to color your words to make your messages prettier? Install the "SmileyFeelingsInserter" plugin and it will do this task for you."


How to Use:

Download the plugin here.

Just write 3 consecutive dots (...) or more at the end of your message to activate the plugin for this message. Do not forget the 3 dots. Do not use it for messages containing hyperlinks. More importantly, do not complain if an incorrect emoticon causes misunderstainding with your buddy :)

Close AIM completely from the tray icon before installing this plugin. You may send feedback to aminallam@aim.com.

Plugin Title: Share-a-Map
by dhbellol

"Share-a-map is an AOL AIM plugin that let you share maps with a friend via AIM in an interactive way. This plugin can be extremely useful when you want to share a location, route or place with a friend or relative, plus other features like add images and hand drawing overlays, find an address or point, save your map, among others."

How to get it?
1. You can get this plugin here.
2. Close AIM
3. Execute the installer
4. Start AIM
5. In order to share your desktop, Share-a-map must be installed in your friend computer.

Full instructions are available on the Share-a-Map homepage.