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Well, I don’t know about you but when I’m at the PC I am connected to 6 IM networks minimum. Running 6 IM programs has been a real pain, Trillian hasn’t been updated for a while, I can’t stand Pidgin although other staff quite like it; so I went on a hunt a couple of weeks ago and found Digsby!
Digsby lets you connect to AIM, Gtalk, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, ICQ and last but not least, Facebook!
You can customise your contact list to a very high level and move everything around very nicely, you can also group your contacts – like for example if your friends have accounts on multiple networks you can group all of their ID’s into one main contact.
Digsby stores all your IM network passwords, contact lists and settings on their servers – this means you can login to Digsby on any computer with it installed, it will then pick up your IM network settings, skin settings, contact list/group options and automatically apply them on whichever Windows, Mac or Linux box you run on.
Integration with Facebook means you can see which contacts are online, talk to them using Facebook chat, you’ll be notified of new events etc – all in all, a very nice addon for Facebook.
Digsby has many other neat features, one being if someone messages you, the message will appear on a pop-up that fades in/out, but the great thing is you can also reply to them on that pop-up, which means (for me at least) no more hunting through about 50 IM windows to find that specific person’s conversation.
All in all I am finding Digsby to be the best IM program I’ve used so far, however I would like to see what will happen with Trillian Astra – hopefully it won’t be bloatware.
You can get Digsby from here: http://www.digsby.com/
My friend from Console Realms has also released a shiny little icon pack for Digsby, it is available right here.
Wow, thanks for this. It’s pretty darn awesome.
Digsby looks alot like the Mac multi-IM program Adium, which is no bad thing.
Other than that there is trillian multi-IM for pc but thats going through some new styling, and looksa bit weird lol. ^_^
Hey Tim –
Great idea and agree with what you say, but I’m a bit concerned about them storing “all your IM network passwords, contact lists and settings on their servers”. Bit scary security-wise, isn’t it?
Chris
@ Chris – Yeah totally agree, it’s a little scary – however just set a very secure password. When you reset it (yes I forgot my password, I have way too many) you gotta give it all your IM network passwords again too else you can’t get in…. Which takes ages… xD