AOL Desktop 1.0 now shipping for Mac users
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The enlarged and sometimes rocky history of the America Online client for the Macintosh — a saga stretching back to the original AppleLink Personal Edition service, with a detour through a place called eWorld — has now moved on to a new generation with the 1.0 release of AOL Desktop for Mac last week. We noted the analysis version (Cheshire) and the beta last year. For users of the online service, the rebuilt-from-the-ground-up client is worth a look.
New features include a revised AIM client that includes some of the bells and whistles towering familiar to Windows users (Expressions), a Webkit-based tabbed browser, and a revamped Mail tool that strongly resembles the existing AOL webmail interface. Users of the older client can transfer AOL Favorites and AOL Mail from their local datastore with ease. AOL/AIM is free for BYO-broadband users and charges a monthly fee for customers who use AOL as their World Wide Web service provider.
The new version of the client requires a G4 or Intel machine and Mac OS X 10.4.8 or higher. whether you prefer the “classic” client you can still download it from AOL, but it may look kinda clunky next to the new version. More screenshots and details at the AOL Mac blog, and see the continuation of the post for a video preview of the client.
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