Funpidgin - Custom Pidgin Client With Additional Features

Funpidgin is a customized version of the popular open source client Pidgin which allows instant messaging with over twenty different protocols.

In addition of the original Pidgin features, FunPidgin offers :

# "Entry area manual sizing" a plugin by Artemy Kapitula that allows manual resizing of the entry area.
# An option to set the size of the buddy icons displayed in the chat window.
# An option to let the window manager place new windows.
# Two different ways of seeing that your buddies are typing.
# An optional send button for Tablet PC users.

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Digsby Adds Facebook Chat Support

Digsby is a newcomer multi-protocol IM client. It allows you connect AIM, WLM, Yahoo, and Google Talk.

The new version of Digsby now supports Facebook Chat. This initial release includes all the basics - messaging, buddy icons, status, and status messages.

Facebook Chat is completely separate from the social network support (Facebook and Myspace) Digsby currently provide for Facebook so you need to add your Facebook account to the IM accounts list.

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Best Multi-Protocol IM ? Pidgin, Meebo, Digsby, Adium or Trillian ?

"On Tuesday we asked for your favorite instant messaging applications, and over 550 comments later, we've culled it down to the most popular five. From web-based chat to desktop clients to tools that combine IM, email, and social networking, your nominations spanned a wide range of instant messaging applications. Let's take a closer look at the five most voted-for apps, and face them off against each other in a final showdown to crown the ultimate favorite..."

Continue reading : Five Best Instant Messengers

Posted by Adam PashLifehacker

Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Pidgin, Meebo, Digsby, Adium, Trillian

AdiumBook - Synchronize Your Adium and Address Book Contacts

Adium is a free multi-protocol instant messaging client for Mac OS X. AdiumBook allows you search, manage and keep your contacts synchronized with your address book. AdiumBook comes with a simple intuitive interface: one single window. No preferences, no drawers, no tabs, no popup, no splash, no funky window resizing.

AdiumBook Features :

Manage:
* Add Adium contacts to Address Book.
* Update card's information using Adium data.

Search:
* Find an Adium contact in Address Book.
* Find an Address Book contact in Adium.
* Full text search for both applications.

Reports:
* Listing of contacts grouped by IM service.
* Contacts with no picture.
* Contacts present in Adium but not in Address Book.
* Contacts present in Address Book but not in Adium.

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Imo.im Released Downloadable Multi-protocol IM Client for Windows

Imo.im is a web based multi-protocol IM client. It's browser based and free. Now Imo team released a downloadable version of their IM client.

Imo.im for Windows allows you IM and video chat with friends on AIM, Google Talk, MSN, and Yahoo networks. This downloadable client lets you sign in automatically on startup and receive IM alerts when minimized.

Note that the application requires the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework. If you don't have it, the installer will install it for you. It will take an extra 5 to 10 minutes.

Download Imo.im for Windows

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gSMS Pidgin Plugin - Get Notified by SMS When Your Friends Contact You

gSMS is a plug-in for Pidgin which notifies you by SMS when someone tries to contact you by Pidgin and you don't respond within a specified time frame.

SMSs are sent via Google Calendar and it doesn't give you the actual text of the message. Just the name of the contact and the date / time the message was sent to you. If multiple contacts leave messages, they will be all bundled together and sent to you in one SMS.

If you need help on installing gSMS, there is a great installing guide posted on makeuseof.

Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, gSMS, Pidgin

Coccinella - Free and Open Source Cross-Platform Chat Client

Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people.

Coccinella can connect to any Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server. You can either use a public server, or you can deploy your own server. In the latter case, you can opt to federate your server with the public Jabber/XMPP network.

Coccinella can interact with other foreign instant messaging systems (ICQ, MSN Messenger and AIM) over Jabber.

Coccinella Features:

* File transfer
* Plugin system
* Group chat
* Avatars and emoticons
* Multi-lingual and internationalized
* Secured connections (TLS and SASL)
* Open standard instant messaging protocol

Coccinella Screenshots:



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Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Coccinella, Open Source

digsby Combines IM, Email and Social Networking

digsby is a multiprotocol instant messaging client that allows you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.

digsby's email notification tool alerts you of new email and lets you perform actions such as 'Delete' or 'Report Spam' with just one click.

Additinally it's a social networking tool that alerts you of events like new messages and gives you a live Newsfeed of what your friends are up to.

digsby IM Features:

# One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
# Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag + drop tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
# Rename contacts with an alias so you don't have to remember buddy names like "giantsfan123".
# If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
# Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
# The InfoBox lets you check everyone's status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.
# Changing your status has never been easier - just one click right on the buddy list!
# Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM's. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.
# Log conversation history and find the information you need in our search enabled log viewer.

digsby IM Screenshots:



via BigBlueBall Forums

Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, digsby, Social Networking, Social Network, Social Networks

MusicTracker Plugin - Add "Now Playing" Status Message to Pidgin

MusicTracker is a plugin for Pidgin. MusicTracker displays the music track currently playing in the status message of various accounts such as AIM, Yahoo, WLM, Google Talk (Jabber), etc., i.e. any protocol Pidgin supports custom statuses on. Support for a wide range of audio players on both Windows and Linux platforms is planned. MusicTracker currently supports following players: Amarok, Rhythmbox, Audacious, XMMS, MPC/MPD, Exaile, Banshee, Quod Libet on Linux. Winamp, Windows Media Player (9+), iTunes, Foobar2000 (incomplete support) on Windows.

MusicTracker Features:

* Allows you to customize the status string with various fields extracted from your media player such as artist, album, track, duration, progress bar, etc.
* Works around Pidgin's lack of support for MSN status messages by using the nickname instead.
* Different status messages for various media player states such as Playing, Paused and Stopped.
* Supports per-account status format customization.
* Optional Profanity filter for words in the status.

via Lifehacker

Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Pidgin, MusicTracker

Meebo's Traffic Comes from Meebo Rooms and Widgets

"Web-based IM service Meebo is a text-book case of how to build a brand (and traffic) with widgets on other sites. As we’ve noted in the past, the bulk of Meebo’s traffic comes from Meebo Rooms and other widgets embedded on other sites, including Facebook. Some new comScore Widget Metrix numbers pan this theory out..."

Continue reading : Meebo Widget Strategy Paying Off

Posted by by Erick Schonfeld @ Techcrunch

Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, messenger

BitlBee - Connect to GTalk, MSN, Yahoo! , AIM and ICQ over IRC

BitlBee allows you connect to other IM networks over IRC clients. It's a great solution for people who have an IRC client running all the time and don't want to run an additional IM Client.

BitlBee currently supports the following IM networks/protocols: Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM and ICQ.

BitlBee Screenshots:



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Fring Added Yahoo Messenger and AIM Support

fring is mobile VoIP application enables you to make voice calls and chat with your buddies.

fring was supporting Skype, Google Talk, ICQ, MSN Messenger and Twitter. Now fring supports Yahoo Messenger and AIM support as well. Yahoo! & AIM are currently available for Symbian and UIQ handsets; voice calls are not yet enabled.

Note : You don’t need to upgrade your fring. It's enabled it on frşng servers, so all you need to do is to go to settings> services and add your service user name and password.

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WebCam Video Plugin for Miranda IM

With WebCam Video Plugin for Miranda you will be able to show a picture of remote person. Additionally you can save video stream to AVI file. Plugin API functions allows you use web camera from other plugins.

WebCam Video Plugin for Miranda IM Features:

* User may select any video-source (web-camera, TV tuner etc).
* Video-chats can be automatically saved as regular .AVI files.
* Webcam picture is sent as a regular text messages, so WebCam Video will work well even behind firewalls. User will not see these text messages, of cause.
* Delay and block size may be changed.
* WebCam Video provides simple interface to web-camera. Developers may take snapshots in either bitmap or jpeg format.

Requirements:

· Miranda 3.3.0 or later
· Web Camera

Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Miranda IM, Miranda

Skype Plugin for Pidgin, Gaim and Adium

Skype API Plugin allows you chat with your Skype buddies inside Pidgin.

It requires Skype to be running as it uses the Skype API to communicate with a running copy of Skype.

Skype API Plugin currently works with Windows, Linux and OS X.

Learn more about Skype API Plugin

Technorati Tags : messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Pidgin, Skype, Adium, Gaim

MeBeam - Add Audio and Video Chat to Adium

Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.

MeBeam Plugin allows you integrate audio and video into Adium. When you want to videochat with someone, ctrl-click (or right-click) them and choose "Initiate MeBeam Videochat".

MeBeam Features:

* Cross-platform
* Cross-service
* No installation necessary on the invitee side, except for some IM client, a web browser and the Flash plugin
* Up to 15 people in a multiuser-videochat, not required to use the same IM network
* Fewer issues with firewalls than other solutions

via Lifehacker

Technorati Tags : im, messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, MeBeam, Adium, Mac OS X, MacOSX

Pidgin Character Counting Plugin

This simple plugin allows you display the character count of the current message in a Pidgin chat window. Thanks go to Dossy for his efforts :

"Someone asked if there was a plugin for displaying the character count of the current message in a Pidgin chat window's input widget, which would be useful when using Twitter via IM, to know if you're going over the 140 character limit. I looked things over and came up with this simple plugin after about two hours of hacking ..."

Continue reading : Character counting plugin for Pidgin

Technorati Tags : im, messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Pidgin

Various Miranda IM Plugins

Miranda IM is an open-source multi protocol instant messenger client for Microsoft Windows. Petio Tonev created some cool plugins for Miranda IM :

Visibility Level : Powerful plugin for Miranda IM (ICQ Clone) that allows you to define and apply visibility level for each user from contact list.

Speaker Notification : A small and easy-to-use yet powerful plugin for Miranda IM (ICQ Clone) that notifies you when receive a message

Template Message : Powerful plugin for Miranda IM (ICQ Clone) that allows you to use prepared template messages for each user from contact list.

Phantom User : Powerful plugin for Miranda IM that àllow to add, edit and delete on phantom users in contact list

Birthday List : A plugin for Miranda IM (ICQ Clone) that notifies you few days earlier when someone from your contact list has a birthday

Technorati Tags : im, messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Miranda IM, Miranda

Pidgin (formerly Gaim) 2.2.2 released !

Pidgin Team has released a new version of their famous multiprotocol instant messaging client.

Pidgin allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once and works with the following networks:

* AIM
* Bonjour
* Gadu-Gadu
* Google Talk
* Groupwise
* ICQ
* IRC
* MSN
* QQ
* SILC
* SIMPLE
* Sametime
* XMPP
* Yahoo!
* Zephyr

Changelog:

* General changes
o Various bug and memory leak fixes
* Windows-specific changes
o Updated gtkspell to include a patch to share Aspell dictionaries among all the input fields to avoid excessive memory usage.
o Updated libxml2 to 2.6.30
o Bonjour protocol now appears even if Bonjour for Windows isn't present (displays message indicating Bonjour for Windows must be installed if you try to log in and it isn't installed).
o libpurple now looks for a default prefs.xml in the CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA directory (e.g. \Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\purple\prefs.xml) similarly to how this is done on other platforms.

Download Pidgin 2.2.2

Technorati Tags : im, messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Pidgin, Gaim

Miranda IM 0.7.1 released !

Miranda team released a new version of their open-source multi-protocol chat client. Miranda IM 0.7.1 contains fixes for several security vulnerabilities along with other numerous bug fixes. Due to the nature of these changes, it is recommended that all users upgrade as soon as possible.

What's new on Miranda IM 0.7.1 :

Enhancements:
- Improved icon skinning engine performance
- ICQ: Enable ICQ 6 photo handling
- Jabber: Improved avatar processing
- MSN: Added per message nickname display
- MSN: Improved status message processing

Bugfixes:
- Image services plugin wasn't loaded correctly sometimes
- Standard message dialog didn't draw user id button correctly
- Network log issue creating log file name correctly
- ICQ: Handle non-standard offline messages
- ICQ: Buffer overflow vulnerability
- IRC: Warning message was cut off
- IRC: Buffer overflow vulnerability in IRC options
- IRC: Russian nicks parsed incorrectly
- IRC: Fixed clickable timestamps in group chats
- Jabber: urn:xmpp:time returns month number off by 1
- Jabber: Jabber displayed self in contact list
- Jabber: Wrong timestamp for offline messages
- Jabber: Crash in Jabber multi-user conference
- Jabber: Buffer overflow vulnerability in Jabber forms
- Jabber: Can't change icons to gadu gadu transport contacts
- MSN: Changed gateway polling frequency
- MSN: Fixed MSN alert url creation
- MSN: Remove Yahoo alert
- Yahoo: Buffer overflow vulnerability

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Instantbird - Multi-protocol Chat Client for WLM, MSN, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk and Yahoo Networks

Instantbird is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client from Mozilla team. It allows you connect to all your different IM accounts.

Instantbird uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks.

Instantbird is a free and open source software. So you are free to use, distribute and modify it.

Supported Networks :

* AIM
* Gadu-Gadu
* Google Talk
* ICQ
* MSN
* QQ
* XMPP
* Yahoo!

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Technorati Tags : im, messenger, instant messaging, instant messenger, Instantbird, Mozilla, Pidgin