Add friendly aliases for AIM contacts in Mac AIM 4.7

Jun 21, '04 09:55:00AM

Contributed by: nuggetman

So the latest versiion of AIM for Mac lets you create friendly names for mobile and ICQ numbers you add to your buddy list. Alas, you can't do this for AIM/AOL buddies ... or can you?

Most other AIM clients such as Adium and GAIM now have a feature to let you store aliases for your buddies, and most times these are stored on the server. As it turns out, GAIM and GAIM-based clients store them in the exact same location as the Mac AIM client stores those friendly names for mobile and ICQ numbers. So by going into any GAIM-based client and setting aliases for your buddies, those aliases will show up in the Mac version of AIM.

The catch: Only one buddy can have a given alias... hence if one person is aliased "alex", then you can't have another "alex;" it will simply show up as their screen name unless you set it to something else.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one...]

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