Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:
Power Geez is a popular software suite developed by Concepts Data Systems PLC designed for typing and displaying the Ethiopic (Ge’ez) script on Windows-based computers. It is widely used for languages like Amharic, Tigrinya, and Tigre, providing a bridge for users to type in their native scripts across standard Windows applications. Key Features
to provide Power Ge'ez-style typing on modern operating systems. Microsoft Learn Common Typing Shortcuts
✅ Recommendation: For new users, start with Windows built-in Ethiopic keyboard or Keyman + Geez. For legacy documents or specific layouts, Power GEEZ is still valuable.
Before 1990, typing Amharic meant using massive mechanical typewriters with 300+ keys—a logistical nightmare. The Geez script was marginalized in early computing because Unicode did not support it.
Today, the software landscape has shifted. The emergence of Unicode—the universal standard for text encoding—has made proprietary systems like the older versions of Power Geez somewhat obsolete. Modern operating systems (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS) now n
, allowing users to type Amharic based on how English letters sound (e.g., typing "selam" to get "ሰላም"). Google Play Versions and Availability Power Geez Amharic Keyboard (Mobile): A modern app available for Android on the Google Play Store
This is the portable OTR Messaging Library, as well as the toolkit to help you forge messages. You need this library in order to use the other OTR software on this page. [Note that some binary packages, particularly Windows, do not have a separate library package, but just include the library and toolkit in the packages below.] The current version is 4.1.1.
UPGRADING from version 3.2.x
This is the Java version of the OTR library. This is for developers of Java applications that want to add support for OTR. End users do not require this package. It's still early days, but you can download java-otr version 0.1.0 (sig).
This is a plugin for Pidgin 2.x which implements Off-the-Record Messaging over any IM network Pidgin supports. The current version is 4.0.2. amharic software power geez
This software is no longer supported. Please use an IM client with native support for OTR. Power Geez is a popular software suite developed
This is a localhost proxy you can use with almost any AIM client in order to participate in Off-the-Record conversations. The current version is 0.3.1, which means it's still a long way from done. Read the README file carefully. Some things it's still missing:
You can find a git repository of the OTR source code, as well as the bugtracker, on the otr.im community development site:
If you use OTR software, you should join at least the otr-announce mailing list, and possibly otr-users (for users of OTR software) or otr-dev (for developers of OTR software) as well.
pidgin-otr
tutorial from the Security-in-a-Box project
Video OTR tutorial (by Niels)
Adium, Pidgin & OTR (auf Deutsch, by Christian Franke)
Miranda, Pidgin, Kopete & OTR (auf Deutsch, by Missi)
Adium X with OTR
OTR proxy on Mac OS X
pidgin-otr on gentoo (from "X")
gaim-otr on Debian unstable (from Adam Zimmerman)
gaim-otr on Windows (from Adam Zimmerman)
gaim-otr 3.0.0 on Ubuntu (from Adam Zimmerman). Note that Ubuntu breezy has gaim-otr 2.0.2 in it, and
all you should have to do is "apt-get install gaim-otr".
We would greatly appreciate instructions and screenshots for other platforms!
Here are some documents and papers describing OTR. The CodeCon presentation is quite useful to get started.
Power Geez is a popular software suite developed by Concepts Data Systems PLC designed for typing and displaying the Ethiopic (Ge’ez) script on Windows-based computers. It is widely used for languages like Amharic, Tigrinya, and Tigre, providing a bridge for users to type in their native scripts across standard Windows applications. Key Features
to provide Power Ge'ez-style typing on modern operating systems. Microsoft Learn Common Typing Shortcuts
✅ Recommendation: For new users, start with Windows built-in Ethiopic keyboard or Keyman + Geez. For legacy documents or specific layouts, Power GEEZ is still valuable.
Before 1990, typing Amharic meant using massive mechanical typewriters with 300+ keys—a logistical nightmare. The Geez script was marginalized in early computing because Unicode did not support it.
Today, the software landscape has shifted. The emergence of Unicode—the universal standard for text encoding—has made proprietary systems like the older versions of Power Geez somewhat obsolete. Modern operating systems (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS) now n
, allowing users to type Amharic based on how English letters sound (e.g., typing "selam" to get "ሰላም"). Google Play Versions and Availability Power Geez Amharic Keyboard (Mobile): A modern app available for Android on the Google Play Store
