Instant Messaging
Pidgin Instant Messaging
www.pigdin.im
Instant messaging has been evolving throughout the years. From ICM to AIM to facebook and hopefully skype. If your antyhing like me, it seems everyone I know perfers something different. Although 90% of my friends like to chat either using AIM, facebook, or google. I hate opeing 2 programs when 1 will do. That's why I use Pidgin instant messenger. This is an open source product that combines almost every chat service into 1 familar tool. You may remember an older program named GAIM that started in Linux, this is the same tool just evolved a bit. It looks and feels a lot like the old AIM client which i liked the best. I currently use it for yahoo, AIM, google and facebook chat, but it also includes all of the chat interfaces listed below. I enable facebook chat through a third party plugin: http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/. Because the software is open source there are tons of features, much like the facebook plugin. There are logging plugins or smiley plugins and a whole lot more. This is a highly recommended software if you do a lot of chatting online and especially if you want to use multiple services.
- AIM
- Bonjour
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- Groupwise
- ICQ
- IRC
- MSN
- MySpaceIM
- SILC
- SIMPLE
- Sametime
- XMPP
- Yahoo!
- Zephyr
