Technological Guide.

Pidgin 2.9.0 Free Chat Software (Open Source)

Wednesday, July 6th, 2011

Pidgin is a free chat software which lets you chat using multiple accounts simultaneously. You can chat with your friends on MSN, Google Talk, Yahoo! Messenger, etc. at the same time using Pidgin.

Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Pidgin supports many features of the chat networks like File Transfers, Away messages (status messages), Buddy Icons, Custom Smilies, Typing notifications. Pidgin comes with extendable plugins also which means it allows customization. Pidgin sits into System tray on windows, GNOME2, KDE 3 and KDE 4.

Pidgin is compatible with

  • AIM
  • ICQ
  • Google Talk
  • Jabber/XMPP
  • MSN Messenger
  • Yahoo!
  • Bonjour
  • Gadu-Gadu
  • IRC
  • Novell GroupWise Messenger
  • QQ
  • Lotus Sametime
  • SILC
  • SIMPLE
  • MXit
  • MySpaceIM
  • Zephyr

Pidgin is free and contains no ads. Pidgin is under constant development (Open Source project) licensed under the GNU General Public License. You can also modify Pidgin’s underlying code to suit your needs. Pidgin supports many languages. For more details, visit http://www.pidgin.im/.

You can download from Pidgin-Download.

Digsby All-in-one (chat, email, social network) Freeware

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Digsby is an all-in-one software which gives you the power to use IM, email and Social Networks in one single application. Digsby supports IM (AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber and Facebook Chat), email ( Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL/AIM mail, IMAP and POP) and Social Networks (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn). Digsby is an easy to use software and yet freeware. Digsby can be personalized for your own preferable look and feel using the skins & themes available. This software looks simple but has great valued features are packed into a single application. Yet its available in beta versions. Initially you must create a Digsby account to use it and then add all your IM, email, social networking accounts and enjoy :)

Features

  • You can have a single combined buddy list for all your accounts AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber and Facebook Chat
  • You can manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows and at anytime you can drag out the tabs into their own windows if there is any important conversation.
  • If any of your friends has more than one IM account, you can combine all his/her accounts into a single merged contact so you can communicate with him/her online anytime even he/she uses any of his/her different IM accounts.
  • You can do your work happily by minimizing Digsby without missing any conversations from your friends as it pops up with new messages without disturbing your work.
  • You can manage your Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL/AIM mail, IMAP and POP accounts from Digsby itself.
  • You can get popup notifications whenever a new mail arrives and clicking on the popup takes you to the new message with auto-login into webmail accounts.
  • You can easily mark any mail as “Read” or “Spam” right from the InfoBox provided by Digsby which in turn shows unread messages.
  • You can send emails to your friends from the IM window itself.
  • You can stay up-to-date with whatever happens on your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn accounts.
  • You can receive alerts of New Friend Requests, Messages, Group Invites etc. straight to Digsby.
  • InfoBox of Social Network gives you a real time NewsFeed from your friends saying.
  • Photos, status updates, upcoming birthdays alerts will be reaching your InfoBox
  • You can set status of your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts directly from Digsby.
  • You can even personalize it using skins and themes available.
  • Many more features ….

You can download from Digsby. Digsby is available for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.

For more information, visit: http://www.digsby.com/

ICQ 7.5 Free IM software

Sunday, June 19th, 2011

All PC users are familiar with Instant Messaging softwares like Yahoo! Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk etc. which are used to communicate among friends. Another popular software, ICQ 7.5 which is free and feature rich Instant Messaging software. And you can use web version of ICQ to stay in touch with your friends if you use a different PC where ICQ is not installed which is Web ICQ.

Audio and Video

ICQ 7.5 comes with an improved Audio and Video chat service, SMS or Instant Messaging. You can call friends directly from ICQ or chat with them using Video.

Moods

You can express your mood on ICQ which has over 80 built-in moods available readily inside a colorful gallery.

Emoticons and tZers

The gallery contains familiar emoticons and tZers which are animated which can be used with click of a sinlge button.

Privacy Icons

The new privacy icons appear next to the contact’s profile picture which is a good feature showing that contact’s status like blocked user or allowed user or etc.

Messaging History

Messaging History tool allows you to search for words, phrases, group chats etc from the history of the message conversations went on in past.

Facebook Chat

Using ICQ 7.5, now you can chat with your Facebook friends also which is a great feature in ICQ 7.5. You can add your facebook friends to your contact list and start chatting wtih them.

Search for New Friends

You can now search for friends and friends of friends who are mutual or new and can add them and start chatting upon their acceptance of your request.

Feeds from Friends

You can now read updates / feeds of your friends from Social Networks using ICQ 7.5.

Online Games

You can play online games hosted in ICQ Online Games Center using ICQ 7.5

System Requirements

  • x86 compatible dual core processor or higher
  • 100 Mb of free disk space
  • 1024 Mb of available RAM
  • Internet Explorer 7.0 or above
  • Windows XP with Service Pack3 or higher

You can download ICQ 7.5 for Windows PC from icq-install7.5 and for Linux PC icq-linux

Mobile version of ICQ is also available which can be downloaded

for Android phones — http://www.icq.com/download/mobile/android/

for iPhone and iPod touch http://www.icq.com/download/mobile/iphone/

For more information visit: http://www.icq.com/

For Web ICQ, http://www.icq.com/download/webicq/en