Xirc 0.9.9 review

Xirc is an internet relay chat (IRC) application only for MacOSX written in pure Objective-C using Cocoa frameworks.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 4329K Developer: CGSoftware Buy Now Price: $24.00 Updated: 24 Jul 2006

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Xirc is an internet relay chat (IRC) application only for MacOSX written in pure Objective-C using Cocoa frameworks. Xirc is fully integrated with the MacOSX technologies, as like sheets, drag&drop, AddressBook, etc.

It is fully scriptable using the flexible and powerful like 'C' internal language or the AppletScript language. It supports the plugins to extend a scripting capabilities or create applications through the IRC engine.

Xirc implements DCC Send,Chat and TurboDCC, SSL connections (SSLv2 and SSLv3) with certificate and private key, connections through proxy server (HTTP, SocksV4, SocksV4a, SocksV5) and many others features.

Limitations:
30 days trial.

What's New:
This release fixes a variety of bugs and adds some new features.
The application now is Universal Binary and works on PPC and Intel.
The Network core has been completely rewrote to support IPv6 via CFNetwork framework.
Added channel encryption to talk on crypted channel using the most used MIRCCryption algorithm and the AES 128/192/256 bits.
Updated the growl and perl plugin to works correctly respectively on Panther and Tiger. The growl plugin supports Growl 0.5 and later.
Improvements to the AppleScript scripting with many new functions added a various fixes (thanks to Niteshade)
The DCC core has also been completely rewrote and now is more robust and requires less CPU.
Added a new Xirc function ($result) to returns for example the result of an AppleScript script within a Xirc script.
Fixed some issues in the preference panes.
Finally, two Automator action has been added.