Instant Message Hell

Overheal · 23-06-2008 4:49am #1

So, how many IM do YOU keep track of!?

Lets see. I know have to juggle Steam, Skype, MySpace, MSN, Yahoo AIM and Gmail. Its madness!

Are there any apps out there that are like yknow, One App to Rule Them All?

Myspace and Skype are already paired; gmail lets you talk to AIM (but gtalk doesnt -_-); and then yahoo and msn appear to be paired up too. But its not enough ;_;

jesus_thats_gre · 23-06-2008 4:56am

Don't use the others ones...

challengemaster · 23-06-2008 4:56am

Pidgin / Trillian ?

Stokolan · 23-06-2008 5:19am

Theres a new app that covers a lot. Digsby Ive been using it for a while now and its quiet good. It does AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber, as well as email and some social Networks.

Shiny · 23-06-2008 8:01am

+1 for Pidgin.

Excellent lightweight open source app.

Sherifu · 23-06-2008 8:13am

Digsby/Trillian/Pidgin/Meebo

Overheal · 23-06-2008 8:45am

digsby looks perfect ill install it later sleep now

calex71 · 23-06-2008 10:06am

+1 for digsby, very promissing client, love how they push the updates and fixes for it. Great myspace and facebook chat functions, from the blog i see skype support will be added at some stage but i suspect like most other clients it will probable need you to be running skype anyway.

The web cam functionality is a bit strange in that its handled though your web browser and not directly in the client

Duffman · 23-06-2008 12:03pm

Digsby is good but it uses massive amounts of RAM at the moment. Pidgin focuses on doing one thing well - instant messaging. It now supports facebook chat (via plugin) which matches one of the killer features of Digsby.

Cabaal · 23-06-2008 2:46pm

I use Pidgin on Windows and Audim on Mac to manage AIM, Gmail, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, they both work perfectly, only Steam will manage Steam so your fecked with that afaik