Ok. So most of us are well aware of the Chinese Chat software, QQ. Chances are, if you know a Chinese person, or someone learning Chinese, you know a registered QQ user. But until recently there was no English sign-up page or a Mac version of the QQ application...
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You mean Pidgin (http://www.pidgin.im/). It's a good alternative, but as with all the all-in-one IM clients, you do lose a lot of the original program's functionality.
Plus the Mac OS X version of Pidgin, Adium, asks for a Login server and port, making it worthless. I have not set up my QQ account on Pidgin in my Yellow Dog Linux partition on my PowerBook yet.