Digsby has a video demo showcasing features
We are no fans of Digsby ever since it was discovered that they were using your processor power for some third party processing.
We tend to stick with Pidgin/Adium depending upon the platform we are using.
It remains a pretty good instant messaging solution however. The developers have released [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 6 released as work on beta begins
Ubuntu 9.10 is scheduled to arrive next month and this edition is again focused a lot on improving the speed of the OS.
Ars Technica has revealed that it can boot up on a decent system with a solid state drive in as little as 5 [...]

Exclaim Track: Get Twitter alerts on Google Talk!
Exclaim Track is a pretty useful service that can be used to get alerts on keywords from Twitter on your Instant Messenger.
It works with Google Talk or any other Jabber client.
You can get it to work by adding exclaimtrack {at} appspot(.)com
var [...]

Pidgin 2.6.2 now available
Developers behind the popular open source instant messaging application Pidgin have released a new updated build.
Pidgin 2.6.2 is now available as a free download.
This is essentially a bug fix edition.
Checkout the changelog: version 2.6.2 (09/05/2009)
Download: Pidgin

Pidgin 2.6.1 released
The developers behind the popular instant messaging program Pidgin have released a brand new version.
They have released Pidgin 2.6.1 (Pidgin 2.6.0 was released earlier today).
This is a major update as it brings in two new features.
The developers have now added support for both voice and video in the libpurple. This can [...]

Pidgin 2.5.8 released to resolve more Yahoo and MSN issues
Pidgin users have been facing several issues with Yahoo and MSN protocols in the recent times.
The developers had released a new version that fixed some of those problems.
They have fixed some more issues in the latest release.
Pidgin 2.5.8 is now available as a free [...]

Pidgin 2.5.7 fixes Yahoo problems
Yahoo recently announced that they were disabled support for older versions of Yahoo Messengers.
This resulted in broken functionality in third party messenger products like Pidgin.
The Pidgin developers have responded by releasing an updated version of their Pidgin client.
Pidgin 2.5.7 is now available as a free download and it comes with [...]

Yahoo kills Yahoo Messenger 6-7.5 and Pidgin fails
If you are user of the popular open source Pidgin instant messenger, you would have noticed that you are currently unable to connect to Yahoo servers.
Yahoo has killed their older versions primarily the ones between Yahoo Messenger 6-7.5.
This has probably broken down some functionality in Pidgin IM client [...]

Pidgin 2.5.6 released
The developers behind the popular open source instant messaging application Pidgin have released a new version.
Pidgin 2.5.6 is now available as a free download.
This is mostly a bug fix edition.
Changelog:
libpurple
Improve sleep behavior by aggregation of longer timeouts on second boundaries to allow better power saving. (Arunan Balasubramaniam)
Fix various crashes [...]

Facebook Chat for Pidgin
If you are a Pidgin user and you want to stay in touch with your friends on Facebook, this plugin is just for you.
It is not very feature rich but it gets the job done.
You get to see the buddies who are online on Facebook at any given time and you [...]