Shankar Ganesh

Pidgin 2.0 Beta (formerly GAIM) is now released.

Pidgin is a very powerful instant messenger that supports multiple protocols including

AIM / ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Jabber and also IRC.

You’ve got plugins for additional functionality and also loads of themes, to spice up this open source application. It supports multiple platforms.

Buddy Pounces is a unique feature in Pidgin which notifies you when a buddy goes away, comes online, play a sound or even run a program. Spell checker, tabbed conversations, Buddy ticker are some notable plugins. You could log your conversations too. The Buddy Notification plugin notifies you when any of your friends sign in/off, go away or idle. Cool. All plugins can be accessed via the Tools >> Plugins menu.

And colours in the conversation tab indicate what’s happening.
The new version has a got a very good facelift, cool icons, a good logo and others.

Download and see its capabilities. Download for Windows now.
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