The eco-system around Pidginis fantastic, below is yet another cool plug-in tip for it.
Pidgin-Twitter plug-in works with Linux and Windows for you to get back into posting to and receiving notes from Twitter (also works well with Identi.catoo!). Steps to get it working:
download and install the plug-in the plug-in; go to Pidgin menu under Tools > Plug-ins you’ll find Pidgin-Twitter to activate and configure; place your username / password and define a couple of other options (such as show users’ avatars) Add a buddy to your GTalk account called twitter@twitter.
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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.
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 auto-resizes to fit more lines (up to a maximum of 4 lines) Typing notifications are now shown in the conversation area For a list of the complete changes, please check the change log.
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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 proprietary program. It has a free version, I’ll give credit to that but the application was starting to slow down my computer a lot.
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