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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.

Kool IM Launches 2.0

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

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Good news to Kool IM users out there. Version 2.0 has just been launched! Compared to it’s previous version, this new version includes an embedded IM client right on the page. This is to address the problems that users having pop-up blockers have with the original version. In it’s six months of existence, Kool IM [...]

Beware of Copycat Bloggers

Friday, July 21, 2006

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One of the things I usually do when I login to my dashboard is to check on site stats. While I was browsing Shortstat, I found a site that was relatively new. I mean, it was the first time for this site to show up on my stats. Curiosly, I clicked on the url and [...]