Pidgin 2.2.0 – A good alternative for your instant messager
I believe you must be using one or more instant messager(s) to keep in touch with your friends and colleagues. You will have a long list for IMs if you like to keep “on-line” to many community and friends, ICQ, MSN, YIM, AIM, Skype, QQ, and new coming MySpaceIM, etc. The concept of “presence” has been becoming one important elements in Web 2.0 style personal life.
A week ago, Pidgin released its newest version 2.2.0 with a lot of new features and bug-fixing. I just upgraded my Pidgin to it. It can support a lot of popular IM clients:
* AIM
* Bonjour
* Gadu-Gadu
* Google Talk
* Groupwise
* ICQ
* IRC
* MSN
* MySpaceIM
* QQ
* SILC
* SIMPLE
* Sametime
* XMPP
* Yahoo!
* Zephyr
It can support Chinese well. After today’s upgrade, I found it can display those emotions in MSN. It’s very interesting. With Pidgin, you can keep in touch with a series of community and friends without installing one after one clients to slow your computer.
It seems many of us are more familiar with its previous name – GAIM. But this new name is very lovely too. See its pidgen logo.
The current version is 2.4.1, released at Mar.31, 2008. Check out the change log: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog#Version2.4.103312008