Mercury - Sametime Messenger for Mac OS X

Questions...

Ok so I've read a few of the questions that I recieved after releasing 0.3 and here are some answers.

• I am working on text meetings support. It will come soon(TM).
• I am also working on the entire message view system (not just display capabilities) so I will hopefully be rolling out a chat logging feature along with the new message view.

Now for a few questions of my own.

• I'm considering enlisting some help with Mercury, I'm looking for either Java programmers with experience with the Sametime toolkit, or I'm looking for experienced (fairly) Cocoa/Obj-C developers. No someone who might fit? Do you fit? If so contact me at mercury at idavidson dot net, with a short description of your experience.
• I'm not trying to put anyone off, but I'm currently having to consider moving Mercury from its current freeware/donationware model to a shareware model. This project started because I had a need for a Mac Sametime client, I no longer have that need (new job) and now I've got to be able to justify the amount of time I'm spending on it. So what would you pay for Mercury? This goes for individuals or companies.
• The last question is would anyone out there like to purchase an 800 Mhz Powerbook G4 (1 GB, 40 GB HD, Airport)? If your interested make an offer (mercury at idavidson dot net), I don't really have a specific number in my head so the first one I see that I like I'll probably take.

Mercury 0.3a....

After month's of inactivity, a job change, and an 850+ mile move I finally got back into the Mercury code. The result is Mercury 0.3a.

• The contact list is now sorted (by the name stored on the Sametime server for your contact or group)
• The View menu contains an option to show/hide offline contacts
• Finally, the contact list has been updated to use an icon in the same manner that iChat does

Now for the next release the features I am targeting are:

• Conversion of the message view to use WebKit to render so that styling your message windows will be simple for all users
• Conversion of the Preferences interface to use a preference pane system and an expansion of the preferences available to you.
• Conversion of the password storage mechanism to use the Mac OS X keychain instead of its current insecure implementation.
• Finally, there are a few other UI issues that I'm looking to address that don't fit into words so well

I hope these updates will make Mercury a better fit for all of you, the donate button is still active and donations are appreciated now more than ever. If I don't have a feature you want yet, let me know! (mercury at idavidson dot net).