Best Free Downloads For Your Computer 2
Keeping in touch with your friends and family online can be a hassle when everyone prefers a different instant-messaging/chat program. Your geeky friend swears by Google Talk, your girlfriend is all about Yahoo! Messenger, and your parents still stick by AIM. Who wants to run three different instant messaging programs? Well there's no need, just grab Pidgin or its Mac only sibling, Adium. Pidgin and Adium will work with just about any instant messaging platform you can think of, and some you've probably never heard of -- MySpace IM, AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber, and more. Both programs will even work with the popular VOIP / IM platform Skype with a downloadable plug-in, though Skype will still have to be running in the background.
Pidgin and Adium will let you login to all of your IM accounts at once and manage all your conversations from one tabbed window so that you don't litter your desktop with an endless number chat boxes. Pidgin and Adium are both light years better than any of the single network instant messaging applications out there.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
wako @ Jun 7th 2008 6:48AM
Someone please tell me how to skin pidgin... because this thing is UGLY with its default skin
Brad @ Jun 17th 2008 3:56PM
Looksa like they have overlooked TRILLIAN by Cerulan Studios. It's been around for ages. And it does AIM, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, and ICQ, It also has lots of plugins for weather, notes, video, file transfers, and lots more. And it can be setup for multiple users and multiple accounts on multiple services at the same time. *When I lauch it, it signs me in with 9 user names.... work, family, & personal!!!) There are 2 versions, a free and a pay. Only minor differences between them. I have been runing it for years
Brad @ Jul 31st 2008 11:47PM
I've been running TRILLIAN by Cerulan Studios for over 8 years, and I love it. It's setup to log me in with multiple ID's on Yahoo, AIM, MSN, IRC, and ICQ. And I also have it setup to alert me to other people I know logging on/off their systems. And it even logs my chats for me under each person's name chat with. I would not trade it for anything. And their support is fantastic!