Google Talk is an instant messaging software program for Windows that can be used to chat with friends and colleagues, initiate file transfers, do voice over IP and to send and receive voicemails. It’s basically an instant messaging client for the desktop that automatically includes Google Mail contacts.

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If you use the instant messenger Messenger Live regularly you might also have looked around for customizing it further. Customizing meaning removing or adding options to the software program or changing the looks and feel of it. Avalon Concept 2009 is a Messenger Live Plus skin for Windows Live Messenger 2009 that can do all [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

Microsoft Messenger variants, such as MSN Messenger, Windows Live Messenger or Windows Messenger, sometimes cause difficulties during uninstallation throwing error messages such as “Another version of the product is already installed”, “Your computer has a newer version of MSN Messenger than the one you are trying to install”, ““Your computer has a newer version of [...]

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The Instant Messenger MSN Messenger prevents a user from starting multiple instances of the application. Running multiple instances might be useful for users who want to use different accounts for business and private contacts or two separate businesses.
It would be possible to use two different clients, for example MSN Messenger and Meebo to connect [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

The Digsby development team is hard at work in the last months to optimize and improve the instant messaging, email and Social networking client. Joshua covered the last Digsby release which already saw a computer memory reduction of 50%. The new Digsby release was announced today in the official Digsby blog.
The major changes in this [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

Windows Live Messenger 9 is the latest installment of the Microsoft Instant Messenger. It can be downloaded freely from Microsoft. Installation should not pose a problem either as long as you select only the applications that are offered that you would use anyway.
Windows Live Messenger 9 displays advertisements that is changing frequently in the main [...]

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The Onion Router (TOR) was designed to help against network surveillance by utilizing a network of secure tunnels. Tor is used by individuals to access blocked websites and communicate freely on the Internet by routing the connection through a series of secure tunnels where each tunnel only knows the previous and next in line.
Torchat utilizes [...]

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Categories: Security, Windows, software