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Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Do you use IM (instant messaging) to communicate with clients, friends or family? I do and I have a lot of contacts scattered across different protocols like Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Google Talk. Having to open and login to each protocol's IM client is too much of a hassle but thanks to multi protocol instant messaging applications, I only need one program to access all my accounts and contacts.There are numerous multi protocol IM clients like Trillian, Pidgin (formerly Gaim), Miranda, Adium (Mac only) and online ones like Meebo, Kool IM, eBuddy. I've tried most of them but the ones that I liked were Trillian and Pidgin. I used Trillian for quite a while but uninstalled it because it was a resource hog. I switched to Pidgin which was lighter and faster. Even though it lacked some features like video/audio chatting, I liked it and it worked for me. I even posted an article on how to upgrade Gaim to Pidgin on Ubuntu. I never thought I would stop using Pidgin, or so I thought.The other day, I came across a new multi protocol IM client called Digsby. It was on private beta testing a few months back and was recently released to the public for free. I wasn't really interested in trying it out or using it because I already had Pidgin, but eventually I ended up downloading and installing it on my machine. At first, I thought it was just another regular multi protocol IM client but after trying it out and going through its features, I realized that it was much better than the others I've previously tried and used.

Life is Tough…

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

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This is another funny email I recently received. Just wanna share it with you guys. Life is tough… 1. Recently, when I went to McDonald’s I saw on the menu that you could have an order of 6, 9 or 12 Chicken McNuggets. I asked for a half dozen nuggets. “We don’t have half dozen nuggets,” said [...]

Best Prayer I Have Heard In A Long Time

Friday, December 16, 2005

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I received this via email a couple weeks ago but sometimes, when I’m in a hurry I don’t read the email unless it’s something that I’m expecting or it’s something I think is important. Earlier, while I was browsing through my mailbox, one message’s subject caught my attention. It had same title as I have [...]