Linkinus FeaturesVersion 2.0

Download Version 2Requires Mac OS X 10.5+, 10 MB

Built-in Networks With over 330 built-in networks, setting up your favorite connections is as easy as it gets.

Server Cycling Linkinus will smartly cycle through all servers in a network until it finds the best one for you.

Nickname Services Support for multiple Nickname Services, including NickServ, NickOP, Q, X, G, SrvAuth and AuthServ.

Grouped Chats Groups allow you to organize collections of chats that you would like to view simultaneously. Define them once and reuse later.

Dimming Inactive chats in the current group have a darker overlay. Never again will you send a message to the wrong chat!

Shortcuts Assign global shortcuts to switch to your favorite groups.

Unique Coloring Linkinus can dynamically assign colors to chat participants for your reading pleasure.

Consecutive Messages Optionally group consecutive messages into a unique block.

Emoticons Styles now bundle emoticons, which you can turn on or off.

Breaks For increased ease of use, channels can insert breaks when becoming inactive or going out of focus. Automatically scroll back to them when you come back!

Spotlight Easily view all of a person's lines in the current channel.

Highlights Browsing Automatically scroll to previous or next highlights.

Built-In Viewer No more opening files to view past conversations. The log viewer is a click away at all times.

Search Start typing and voilà, logs are filtered by content.

Per-Channel Toggle For your privacy, enable or disable logging on a per-channel basis.

Highlights All incoming messages matching one or more of your highlights are gathered in the Highlights & Stars window.

Stars Want to bookmark a message for future reference? This is now as easy as 'starring' it.

Anchors Click on a message in the Highlights & Stars to be taken to its context in a channel or the log viewer.

Connections Edit identities, add or remove channels, change on-connect autoexec commands, connection-specific highlights, proxies, encodings and much more.

Channels Quickly change the topic or edit channel modes, as well as on-join autoexec commands, channel modes, edit bans and much more.

Queries Easily toggle Blowfish encryption on or off, edit the key, toggle count badges or exclude query for logging.

Buddy Status Easily view whether your friends are Available, Away or Offline on multiple networks.

Address Book Integration Assign Address Book vCards to your buddies.

Quick Action Quickly initiate a private chat or send an email to your buddies.

Mask Identification Filters match against wildcard enabled nick!user@host type masks.

Ignore Messages Choose to ignore private or public messages and you'll never see a message from that person ever again.

Activity Filters Ignoring is not only for messages. You can also choose to toggle embedded media, join/part/quit messages, file transfers and much more.

Persistent ID Identities enable you to separate network settings from one another and at the same time quickly duplicate setups for connections.

Preferred Nicknames Say adios to myNick__. Identities let you list all your nicknames, sorted by preference.

NickServ and co. Integration Automatically identify your nickname against authentication services

SSL Validation When connecting to secure servers, Linkinus will let you know if the remote certificate is invalid, and give you a chance to connect anyway or give up.

BlowFish Full BlowFish support for channels and queries, including for topics. "+p" support has also been implemented to temporarily bypass encryption.

Visual Feedback (Locks) Secure connections are indicated by a lock in the title bar. Also, in an encrypted channel, clear content will be marked with an open lock.

Auto (re)connect Auto-connect will connect when Linkinus launches. Auto-reconnect will retry to connect if something bad were to happen to the connection.

Autoexec Automatically execute any commands upon successful connection, and before or after joining channels.

Nick Authentication Automatically identify your nickname against authentication services

Text Pastie support

Images Flickr support

Audio MP3 and WAV support

Video YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, College Humor, Revision 3, Funny or Die, Hulu, Metacafe, Slideshare, Viddler, Qik, MP4, M4A, SWF, AVI support

URL Expansion Automatic expansion when hovering over tinyurl.com, is.gd, bit.ly and tr.im URLs

Miscellaneous IMDB and Amazon support. Want more? Let us know!

Sounds Play sounds when being invited to a chat, receiving a highlight, being kicked off of a channel and much more. Sounds can be enabled whether or not Linkinus is launched, thanks to the Linkinus Agent architecture.

Growl Display Growl alerts for your favorite events. Growl alerts can be enabled whether or not Linkinus is launched, thanks to the Linkinus Agent architecture.

Per-Channel Granularity Sounds & Growl Alerts can be toggled globally or on a per-channel basis.

Hint Box Connecting to a server will display a hint box helping you joining channels.

Channel List Easy to use searchable channel list.

Whois Popup Advanced dialogs for viewing user information.

Static Highlights Static highlight setups can now be global, connection-specific, channel-specific or query-specific.

Dynamic Highlights Linkinus can dynamically highlight all messages matching your current nickname.

PCRE Regexps Highlight setups can either be words or full-blown PCRE-compatible regular expressions.

Plug-ins Plug-ins implement new features and get a chance to alter all incoming and outgoing data.

Scripts Run AppleScripts within Linkinus. Linkinus has 25 scripts by default.

Styles Linkinus bundles a variety of styles. Want to make your own? Use TextMate, Coda or Espresso to code one, and the Web Inspector to debug it live in Linkinus.

Up to 10x faster Linkinus 2 is packed with core improvements. Linkinus Core is up to 10 times faster at joining channels with thousands of users.

Detach, Don't Quit With detaching enabled, you can quit Linkinus and stay connected to IRC. You'll be notified if anything requires your attention, like special messages.

UPnP Linkinus dynamically redirects ports to your Mac to make DCC Transfers and DCC Chat easier.

Proxies Full support for HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies. Linkinus can use or override your system-wide proxy settings.

Flood Protection Smart flood protection makes sure you don't send data to the server too fast during a copy/paste.

Encodings Full support for dozens of text encodings, including UTF-8, ISO Latin and all Mac/Windows encodings.

IRC Colors Full support for receiving and displaying IRC colors, as well as underline and bold formatting in chats.

Recent Messages A popup menu in the input bar gives you quick access to the most recent messages you've sent.

Registration Fast, efficient and painless license registration.