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: 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.

Application Title: Flaim
by novar

"FLAIM is a rich browser-based instant messaging application using the Adobe Flex platform. This allows it to be fast and feature-packed, whilst remaining easily accessible and light-weight, less than a 100KB download in most cases!"

It remains under development and new features are being continually added, but is ready to run now, just click the link and log in with your AIM id.

Full documentation & updates here.

FINAL UPDATE 5/6: New features include:

- Repaired data transfer leading to improvements in FLAIM detection, AIM Typing Status and online preferences
- New window manager for increased performance and future feature additions

And, more importantly, making use of these:

- Encrypted IM for FLAIM-to-FLAIM conversations

- Theme "Colour-shifting" (Incoming IMs will automatically be tinted to increase visibility)

- FLAIM "Local Windows" (Incoming links to media can be analysed and opened in local FLAIM windows)

Many minor bugfixes are also included, of course, along with more detailed preferences and some behind-the-scenes server-side updates allowing for greater flexibility in future updates.

Full details as always at:
http://novar.3fkumi.net/flaim/

Plugin Title: Font Corrector
by Gluk

"Tired of reading messages with "crazy" fonts ? Then you will definitely like the Font Corrector plugin. It allows you to remove or fix formatting of all incoming messages according to flexible configuration."

You can download the plugin here.

(http://databa.com.ua/gluk/FontCorrector/FontCorrectorSetup.exe)

To configure plugin just go to Settings->Plugins and double-click "Font Corrector Plugin"

Send all feedback to fontcorrector@gmail.com

UPDATE: .NET Framework 2.0 is required

BUG FIX: background color removing bug was fixed

Bot Title: eDatingBot
by amiune

"eDatingBot helps you to meet new people and chat with them. Just follow the instructions and eDatingBot will get the best match for you!"

How To Use: Visit the following URL:

http://amiune.googlepages.com/edatingbot

...or simply send an IM to eDatingBot and find your match

UPDATE 5/6: now the usernames are linked to their respective AIM profile and you can send messages through eDatingBot before adding a new person to your buddy list.

Plugin Title: FeedReader
by velorien

"The purpose of this AIM plug-in is to provide an easy way to manage your favorite feeds and always be up to date with them. Be the first to know when a friend updates his/her blog and stay informed by always having the latest news feeds fetched from your favorite news site! You may also share your feeds with your friends by simply linking the feed in an IM window, and if they have the plug-in installed it will automatically prompt them to add it to their list of feeds."

You can download the plug-in here.

Update 4/10:

I just wanted to let you know that version 1.2 is now out - available via the same link (http://velorien.googlepages.com/FeedReader.zip).

The changes made in this version are:

• added filtering by date/content
• added option to update status text every time a new item is found
• added export/import feed list function
• added option to turn off alerts
• added option to share all of the feeds in the list with a contact who also has the plug-in
• fixed a couple of bugs and html parsing issues

Please see the .doc file for an in-depth presentation of the new features.

UPDATE 4/14:

FeedReader version 1.3 is now available.

"It is now possible to configure a list of persons to notify every time a new item is found for a feed. This could be useful is one is managing a project and is assigning certain tasks to his team via a web interface with a syndication feed."

FeedReader 1.3 can be downloaded here.

For full documentation & instructions:

Plugin Title: IM Remote
by dhbellol

"IM Remote is an AOL AIM plugin that lets you share your desktop with a friend via AIM. This plugin can be extremely useful when a friend or relative needs help with their computer or when you have to work remotely with a friend or co-worker, avoiding the complexity to setup a secure VNC server."

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, IM Remote must be installed in your friend computer.

Full instructions for how to use IM Remote are available on the download page.

Plugin Title: IM Whiteboard
by dhbellol

"IM Whiteboard is an AOL AIM plugin that let you draw simultaneously with any of your buddies. This plugin can be useful to share an idea or have fun with your friends or kids, plus you can save your drawings and use them as wallpaper or send them to other people."

How to get it?

1. You can get this plugin here.

2. Execute the installer

3. Restart AIM

4. In order to share a whiteboard, IM Whiteboard must be installed your friends' computer.

How to use it?

After you install IMWhiteboard, you'll see the option "Draw with your buddy" when you make right click in any of your buddies, or you can also use the same option in an IM window. (more)

UPDATE:

March 31. Second release: Thanks to all the people who give me feedback, I took all your suggestions for this release. New features added:

• New tools added: Eraser tool
• Photo/Image support. Now you can paste a photo/picture in the whiteboard to draw over it with your friend.
• Palette location bug fixed.

Application Title: infomess
by amiune

"infomess is a new way to see information. You can see your favorite videos, chat with your friends and surf on the net all at the same time.You can also access your buddies' favorite videos with a single click. To get access to your buddies you must sign into AOL. Your mail and password are secure, this site connects directly with AOL."

Application URL:
http://amiune.googlepages.com/infomess.html

UPDATE 4/14: New Functionality Added:

ZappingBox: the ZAPPINGBOX allows you to zapping between videos from different categories like most popular, top favorites, etc., while you are watching other videos or chatting.

Send to a friend: to send what you are watching to a friend just click on send to a friend which it is located at the bottom left corner of each window.

Plugin Title: IM Loud
by dhbellol

"IMLoud is an AOL AIM plugin that lets you hear your instant messages. This plugin is very useful if you are a multitasking user and you want to improve your productivity, because you can work in a document or surfing the web while when you listen to your friend's messages."

How to get it?

1. You can get this plugin here or in the following URL

http://sites.google.com/a/sinesat.com/imloud/Home/Download

2. Execute the installer

3. Restart AIM

How to use it?

After you install IMLoud, you'll see the option "Listen your IM" in the actions menus. After you click on this option, you'll start to hear your IM's as you receive it. As shown in the image:

If you don't want to hear your IM, just look for the option "Stop listening your IM" in the same actions menu.

UPDATE:

March 26. Second release: Thanks to all the people who give me feedback, I took all your suggestions for this release. New features added:

See the download page for full instructions.

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dhbellol is the first official submitter to the Open AIM Developer Challenge, like anyone who submits, he'll get a free TopCoder/Open AIM t-shirt. Feel free to check out his app and offer your feedback, as he is free to update, enhance and add features throughout the length of the competition (just keep the app at the same url). Remember, usage of your app is 20% of your final score!