I admit to using XFire on a semi-regular basis, as well as other less specialized IM systems. I was, therefore, delighted to see Xblaze - a plugin for the popular Adium IM application.

Xblaze encouraged me to switch from my normal configuration of iChat and MSN Messenger to a consolidated Adium setup, which is pretty handy - simplification is better, right?. Now all that's left is a Skype plugin, and my setup will be complete.