Have you heard of Digsby yet? If not, it’s about time you do. Digsby is a multi-network chat client. Doesn’t sound like that big a deal? Use Pidgin or Miranda already? Well Digsby has a couple more cards up its sleeve, along with your Chat accounts Digsby also aggregates social network accounts and email. At [...]
Pimp your MSN Messenger with HiYo
I’m not using Instant Messengers and also do not use the Web 2.0 equivalent in the form of Twitter and comparable services. That’s something that stuck with me since I began using the Internet in the early 90’s and I never changed my stance on the subject. Instant Messengers are nevertheless highly popular and Everton [...]
Paste Text As An URL
With the rise of Instant Messengers and their web counterparts like Twitter came the problem that users who wanted to post text paragraphs had to divide them up because of the text size limitations of the clients. To be honest I’m not sure why there is such a limitation in first place but maybe I’m [...]
Send AIM Messages without a software
Most Instant Messengers have one serious disadvantage and that is that they are tied to a specific computer. If you are on another computer that is not your own you most likely will not have access to your Instant Messenger. That’s probably one of the reasons why people love Twitter and other web services that [...]
Encrypt your instant messages with Pidgin
Pidgin is an Open Source multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that was formerly known as Prince Gaim. It works with many popular Instant Messaging clients like AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo!. Normal conversations with Pidgin, or most other Instant Messaging clients are not encrypted which means that the text is transferred in plain text which means [...]
MSN Repair
MSN Repair is a small utility developed by the Italian software developer Valentino Marangi. MSN Repair 2 is the successor of the first version of MSN Repair which was already downloaded more than 50000 times. Version 2 soon topped that and was already downloaded more than 200.000 times which leads to the question if you [...]
Private Encrypted File Sharing
I have been testing an application called Transporter P2P for the last few days which can be described as a elegant way to share files and chat with contacts using P2P connections. A main difference between Transporter P2P and Skype for instance is that the former is server independent which means more privacy and security. The setup on the other hand is a little bit complicated because of the serverless design.
