AOL Cheshire beta client for Mac

From the earliest origi of AOL -- which briefly existed as "A leLink Personal Edition" way back in the late 1980s -- the Mac has been a full-parity player on the service. Nowadays, you may notice that the AOL Mac client is getting a little bit long in the tooth (last updated November 2005) compared with the Windows version.

Enter the AOL Greenhouse beta farm with Cheshire, a stri ed-down and modernized 'lean client' version of the AOL software that integrates with iLife, Safari, iChat and Mail.a . It a ears to be the next take on the existing AOL Service A istant setup tool, and includes standalone Parental Controls, AOL Pictures and AOL Radio tools. Cheshire, while still in early beta, is a Universal Binary, while the OS X full client is still C only.

The download a ears to work best with Safari at the moment, and be careful when i talling; Cheshire will probably try to reset your a ociatio for the http and mailto handlers. Let us know how it works for you.

[via Versiontracker]

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