Last week I posted an article discussing some of the issues with messaging application Digsby, and why for now I chose to instead use Pidgin.
My conclusion was that although Digsby is a fantastic messaging client with good design and features, the 70mb+ RAM usage became just too much to put up with.
Only a few days [...]
So Long Pidgin.
Torn between Pidgin and Digsby
I’ve been a longtime Digsby advocate all the way back to the private alpha stage of development.
Given the growing number of social networks, chat addresses and email accounts I had I found it a brilliant solution to keeping it all under check. I also liked the simple but effective design and of course there was [...]
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 [...]
Encrypt Instant Messaging with Pidgin Encryption
I never got used to install and run Instant Messaging clients, maybe because I always had other ways to chat with friends and contacts. Instead of using Instant Messengers I used Internet Relay Chat, Skype, Teamspeak or forums. Still, a lot of users do use IMs heavily and those that use Pidgin, which is a client that connects to many networks, can now encrypt their messages with Pidgin Encryption.
