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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.
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Subscribe to commentsuserOct 21st 2008 7:49PM
Light years ahead of any single network IM application out there???
I use Adium for my Mac, but for my PC, it's definitely Digsby!
Not only does it allow you to log into Google, Yahoo, AIM, Windows Messenger and Myspace IM, it also notifies you of new messages for all your email accounts, MySpace Accounts, Facebook accounts, twitter AND lets you open a small window for each where you can view the emails, save delete or go directly to each account without having to login each time!
I'm not a sci-fi space geek, but I assume that by "light years ahead" you mean better, which is not the case for Pidgin.