Add Facebook chat to Pidgin

Date June 22, 2008

Our favorite IM client has just gotten a really cool plug-in, Facebook chat for Pidgin. So now we can connect to 16 different IM protocols with Pidgin. Pretty cool, right?!

The plug-in itself comes in a pretty easy installer for Windows and Linux. Tested and works very well.
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Update - Pidgin now 2.4

Date March 2, 2008

After a week offline due to health reasons, we’re back! Apologies to our readers
Pidgin,  the milti-platform, multi-protocol, instant messaging client has released its version 2.4.0. There were several updates and bugfixes implemented, such as:

Added support for offline messages for AIM accounts
Support for Yahoo! Messenger 7.0+ file transfer method
Input text area in conversation windows [...]

Instant Messengers, unite! (with Pidgin)

Date January 27, 2008

Over the years I’ve created several email accounts and shared them with some friends and family to be in touch through Instant Messengers (IM). Being online for each account meant I had to open 4 different programs, each for one specific IM (AOL, MSN, Google Talk, Y!IM).
That was before all before I found Trillian, a [...]