All of the apps you see on here now have been submitted to AOL and Topcoder’s OpenAIM Developer Challenge where they will be competing with around 50 other entries for some great publicity and funding.

Of course popularity is a substantial part of the judging, so they’re taking a vote, which means it’s down to you, dear reader, to provide your support… =)

So if you’ve really enjoyed using any of the applications you see here, or would like to encourage further development on them, please take the time to vote for your favourite applications and help support Novar’s AIM development!

Note that to commemorate the occasion, FLAIM has also finally received a dedicated homepage, you can see it at http://flaim.novartech.net now, or launch from http://flaim.novartech.net/go/ so please remember to update any bookmarks you may have made.

Thanks for the support, and wish me luck!

After a long wait, FLAIM has finally received a much-needed update.

Resolved API and data transfer issues have meant a host of new features, lead by the finalisation of the FLAIM-to-FLAIM detection. This means a heap of advanced features designed specifically for FLAIM users to share with each other, and hopefully plenty more to come.

Look here for more details or head directly over to log in to the latest release.

Latest update, a new plugin, ZhAssist is ready to go!

ZhAssist is a translation and communication tool that helps people speaking Chinese and English to chat with each other through AIM, by providing helpful tools in an AIMCC plugin.

It’s been under development for longer than most of the other works here, even in daily use for some time now (As a budding student of Chinese myself, I know what is needed!), so it should be quite stable and hopefully equally useful.

In other news, some issues have been resolved so I’ve resumed FLAIM development in earnest; expect another update on that front in the near future.

FLAIM has received far too many updates to list here, but overall it’s moving along quite rapidly and is a much more complete client than it was a week ago. Even more features are on the way for it, so stay tuned but they might be a couple of days away.

AIMySQL has had some niggling bugs fixed, apologies for taking so long with it, but some minor issues were proving quite difficult to track down. No real major feature changes, but it should now be a little quicker and run without issue on a wider range of system configurations.

NoaLIZA, last but not least, has had some pretty dramatic performance upgrades and as a result is now available to a much larger number of simultaneous users, so please feel free to give it a try if you were getting a ‘busy’ message earlier on!

As always suggestions and feature requests are more than welcome, comment away!

After a long battle, at last, FLAIM is ready to go!

FLAIM is a rich browser-based instant messaging application using the Adobe Flex platform.

It is still undergoing fairly heavy development (Features are being added and removed daily), but it has reached the point of being stable enough to make public for something of a beta test.

Look here for more details or head directly over to log in to the latest release.

NoaLIZA (New OpenAim-based eLIZA) is an AIM interface to an open-sourced AIML implementation of the classic ELIZA chat bot, and a framework for enabling AI-based AIM bots to be constructed using powerful, open, AIML-based tools.

Just drop an IM to noaliza on AIM to begin.

The first version of a new plugin, AIMySQL is ready to go!

It’s a lightweight, high speed logging plugin for AIM, that allows you to log IMs directly to a MySQL database, either locally or on a remote server.

Look here for more details or here to download the latest release.

The Answers Bot is your friend on the ‘net, helping you to find the answers to all of your questions right through AIM. Whether you’re out and about, or just too plain lazy to search online for yourself, The Answers Bot will do all the work, and bring you the information you need!

Just drop an IM to TheAnswersBot on AIM to begin.

This is just a quick placeholder site for now, for people to find and download my OpenAIM-based AOL plugins and applications.

If you’re looking for a specific type of program, try the categories on the right, or if you’re interested to hear more about all this OpenAIM business, try the Links.