Archive for the ‘instant messaging’ Category
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 |
Psi is an instant messaging application for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X that connects to the free, open Jabber IM network (also known as XMPP).
Google Talk, LiveJournal, and Portugal Telecom are just a few of the groups that are actively using the Jabber network around the world — and many other companies and educational institutions are still joining in. Psi allows you to seamlessly chat with anyone connected to this global IM network through services like these.
Whether you use Windows, Linux, or a Mac, Psi is right at home on your desktop. From the system tray icon on Windows to the dock badges on Mac OS X, Psi takes advantage of each operating system’s unique features and appearance to provide a first-class IM experience on almost any computer.
And since Psi is designed to be fast and lightweight from the ground up, you’re free to enjoy all of its features without slowing down the rest of your system.
Download: Psi 0.12 | Psi Beta
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 |
Coccinella Coccinella is a free and open-source cross-platform (Windows, Mac OS X, Unix/Linux) chat client with a built-in whiteboard for improved collaboration with other people. Other key features of Coccinella include:
- File transfer
- Plugin system
- Group chat (MUC)
- Avatars and emoticons
- Multi-lingual and internationalized
- Secured connections (TLS and SASL)
- Open standard instant messaging protocol
Coccinella can connect to any Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server. You can either use a public server, or you can deploy your own server. In the latter case, you can opt to federate your server with the public Jabber/XMPP network.
Download: Coccinella 0.96.8 | Screenshots
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
Windows Live Messenger for new window smartphones allows you to chat in virtual real time with your instant messaging (IM) contacts when and where you want to – not just when you’re in front of your computer.
It has many of the same features you already use with Windows Live Messenger on your desktop, including1:
- Fast and reliable messaging
- Virtual real-time awareness of which of your contacts are online and ready to chat
- The ability to customize your own status messages (e.g. ‘Back in 5 mins’)
- Access to your existing Windows Live Messenger Contact List and the ability to add, delete and block contacts
- Emoticons to express yourself
- Auto-login so you’re always connected
- The ability to participate in several chats at once and to initiate and participate in multi-user chats
And with Windows Live Messenger on your BlackBerry smartphone, you can also:
- Communicate with other Windows Live Messenger users even while using other applications on your BlackBerry device
- New messages appearing directly in your BlackBerry smartphone Messages list
Download: Windows Live Messenger for BlackBerry
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client.
Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little memory and requires no installation. Just unzip and run! This also makes it ideal for users that want to run their messenger client from a removable storage such as an USB memory stick. It can even be stored on a floppy disc if not too many plugins are used.
The powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM extremely flexible. Only the most basic features are built in, but there are currently more than 350 plugins available for download that allows users to extend the functionality in Miranda IM. Plugins can be installed to add support for ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, Netsend and other protocols.
Miranda IM is published under the GPL license and is free of charge.
Miranda IM supports Windows NT4, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.
Download: Miranda IM 0.7.8
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008 |
QIP is a freeware program for online communication.
Features
· Multi-Tabbed chat window.
· No advertisements
· Large set of skins
· Fast and light
Download: QIP 2005 Build 8070 | QIP for PDA
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008 |
Camfrog is the most popular live webcam chat community
Over 30 million downloads and millions of registered users
Make free live audio & video calls world-wide
Join live webcam chat rooms or host your own for free
Blazing fast streaming video and amazing audio quality
A live webcam user photo directory makes it easy to meet new people
Download: Camfrog Video Chat 5.1 for Windows
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008 |
Theminds a Windows IRC GUI client (that’s right, full-blossomed GUI) for the wins
Vaporware features
- Finally create a Windows client that rivals irssi
- Netsplit detection
- SSL
- Live update
- Customizable messages, keybindings, colors
- Logs
- Paste detection a la irssi
- Better searching through logs
- Better notification of when other people contact you
- Ignores: regular, exceptions, regular expressions
- Multi-server
- Better server management
- Balloons and cake for small children
Features already in
- Tabs
- Stable IRC client library that should be glorified in its own right
- Stable userlist
- Stable set of controls
- One-server, any number of channels
- Scrolling focus shift (cue music)
- Rich .NET plug-in API. .NET platform means you can write in C#, VB.NET, IronPython, whatever
Download: Theminds 1.2
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008 |
HydraIRC is an open-source IRC client with an attractive and easy to use interface. It supports DCC Chat and File transfers, Connecting to multiple servers, Dockable Floating Tabbed Windows, Autohiding Windows, DLL Plugins, Channel Monitoring, Message Logs, Event Viewer, Themes, Color schemes, Buddy groups, Audible and Visual Notifications , Reg-Exp Highlighting, Favorites and much more.
Download: HydraIRC 0.3.164
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 |
The Manor is a 2D visual chat experience that runs on almost any personal computer. It offers everyone a choice of virtual online worlds, where you can be anyone — or anything — at all. Visit all the Manor virtual chat communities, make your own props, make new friends, even build your own Manor! Even if you never decide to register your still welcome and there are several free sites.
:: Wear any picture as an avatar — in full 32-bit color!
:: Bring your avatars to life with full-frame animation!
:: Use the online directory to find the right Manor for you!
:: Hold private whispered conversations with multiple people simultaneously!
:: Use Manor’s RSAC-based tools to keep kids away from inappropriate content.
:: Create spectacular effects for your own Manor instantly with Smart Spot technology.
:: Explore new effects through scripting with Python, a powerful open-source programming language.
:: With Security Features and Integration Technologies
Download: The Manor 1.0.1 Windows 95 or later, Mac OS X 10.2 or later, Mac OS 8.6 or later
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
Raketu is where social networking meets communications meets media services in one application. Raketu delivers free or the cheapest national and international calls from your computer and from your mobile to anywhere in the world. Raketu also delivers TV www.raketu.tv, video on demand, IM, SMS, multi media player, podcasting, slide show, info feeds and more. These services are also available directly from Raketu’s website RakWeb-no downloads. The Raketu application and RakWeb are fully synchronized.
Our unique peer-to-peer technology delivers the highest quality VoIP calling, through your computer or mobile smartphone allowing you to call landlines and mobiles anywhere in the world. At Raketu we don’t use supernodes so no need to worry about security risk and performance problems associated with other service providers.
For Windows ME/2000/XP/Vista. PPC2003/Windows Mobile 5/Windows Mobile Mobile 6
Download: Raketu 2.6.5.0
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
The AIM service has always been a leader in providing you with new ways to communicate. AIM 6 is the next generation instant messaging software. Experience new features such as grouped IMs, sending offline IMs, conversation logging and more.
Mobile IMs
Add your buddies’ mobile numbers into your Buddy List window. Sending a text message to mobile devices has never been easier.
Buddy Info Images
Add an image to your Buddy Info with just a few clicks. A picture is worth a thousand words!
Change Your Colors
Give your Buddy List window a new look using one of nine new colors. Change them as often as you’d like.
Offline IMs
Don’t miss out on your IMs just because you’re busy. AIM 6.1 lets you retrieve the messages you missed while you were offline.
IM Grouping
Keep all of your IMs organized in one easy window. AIM 6.1 makes managing your social life even easier.
Plus: IM Logging, Picture Sharing, Bigger Buddy List, PC to PC Chat, Innovative Wallpapers, AIM Pages.
System Requirements: Windows: 2000/XP/Vista
· Windows 95 users download AIM 4.8.
· Video IM requires Window XP/Vista
· Microphone/Speaker or Headset for Talk functionality
Download: AIM 6.8.10.1 | AIM Beta
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008 |
Gabtastik is a WebKit based Site Specific Browser (SSB) for web chat services.
Gabtastik lets you keep chat sessions open on your OS X desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.
Gabtastik also lets you specify window display level and window opacity, and lets you toggle quickly between supported chat services.
Gabtastik currently supports:
- Facebook Chat
- Google Talk
Requirements: Windows XP or Vista with Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, Adobe Flash Player.
Download: Gabtastik 0.21 for Windows
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008 |
MessengerDiscovery Live is a free Windows Live Messenger addon that adds over 150 features, settings and customizations.
MessengerDiscovery contains no spyware or malware.
System Requirements:
- Windows XP or Vista.
- Windows Live Messenger 8.0 or above
Download: MessengerDiscovery Live 1.4.5408 (Adware)
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 |
MegaIRC is an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Client. It allows you to connect to the IRC network a virtual meeting place where people from all over the world can meet and talk.
It supports the server and channel lists, full ANSI colors, audible and visual notifications, DCC file send and receive, message logs, command line. It has the multilingual interface. The color scheme in MegaIRC is fully customizable, you can change the text and background, as well as other specific types of text eg. your own messages. MegaIRC allows you to associate sounds (mp3, ogg, wav are supported) with specific events.
MegaIRC supports various IRC server encodings and, for your anonymity, can connect to a server through Socks5 firewall. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is also supported.
MegaIRC has some features that cannot be found in other IRC clients. It can work in one-windowed mode, which means that all private, channel and system messages will be shown in same text window, it can work in debug mode when all server messages will be shown to user as is, according to IRC protocol and more.
MegaIRC supports their own bots-plugins. IRC bots can entertain users on channel, can check for unprintable words, can collect user stats etc.
Download: MegaIRC 3.97
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 |
MySpaceIM is a free instant messaging service.
Features
:: IM your MySpace friends anytime
:: One-Click login to mail, bulletins, and more
:: Instant alerts for all requests, messages, and comments
:: Find and view your friends’ profiles with one click
Requires Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
Download: MySpaceIM 1.0.756.0 Beta
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 |
ejabberd is a high-performance instant messaging server. An instant messaging server allows to transfer presence and status information between users connected to serverse and support real-time communications between them.
ejabberd relies on XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) a largely-accepted XML protocol standardized by the IETF (The Internet Engineering Task Force). The protocol evolution is handled by the Jabber Software Foundation (JSF), whose mission is to create the world’s best protocols for instant messaging, presence, and other forms of near-real-time communication based on XML.
XMPP protocol main strength is that the protocol is naturally distributed. This means that no unique central server is needed. Instead, organisations can run their own server, each server being able to route message from one user on a given server to another user on another one. This adds the security that was missing to existing public instant messaging systems. Instant messaging with XMPP means that communication between users connected to the same server are kept inside the organisations. Communications between two organisations do not pass through other servers.
XMPP also allows to add gateways, called transports. Those gateways are plugged to an existing XMPP servers and allows its users to communicate with users located on other networks. ejabberd is thus for example compatible with AOL Messenger, ICQ, MSN, et Yahoo Messenger.
Operating Systems: Windows, MacOSX, Linux
Download: ejabberd 2.0.1
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008 |
Yahoo! Messenger allows you to communicate via text, audio and video in real time for free. Listen to LAUNCHcast Radio and challenge friends to Yahoo! Games. Express yourself with Audibles, Emoticons and Avatars.
Make Free PC-to-PC Calls
:: All you need is a headset, or a microphone and speakers. It’s that easy - just click the Call button.
IM with friends on Windows Live Messenger
:: Have all your IM friends in one place. Ping-away with people who use Windows Live Messenger. They’ll also be on your contact list so you can see when they’re online.
Plug-in the fun
:: Add your personal touch. Handy plug-ins deliver the stuff you want to your Messenger. Choose Yahoo! plug-ins or ones from eBay, Amazon.com, and more.
Share files (up to 1GB!)
:: Just drag-and-drop them into your IM window. Then share and discuss in real-time.
Stay up-to-date on friends
:: Use the Yahoo 360 plug-in to see new stuff on friend’s 360 pages — like the latest photos, blog entries, and reviews.
Use stealth settings
:: Reduce interruptions. Appear online to some, offline to everyone else.
Make it your own
:: Personalize your world with Avatars, Emoticons, Audibles, custom ring tones, and more.
Download: Yahoo! Messenger 8.1.0.421 | Yahoo! Messenger 9.0.0.1389 Beta
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008 |
MSN Photo Virus Remover 3.46 Virus Database 4.6 - (UPDATED 20 Feb 12:17PM GMT+9:30)
This tool removes the Photo Virus Please note, you may need to have an administrator account or to start in Safe Mode to completely remove the MSN Viruses.
Download: MSN Photo Virus Remover 3.70
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 |
RetroShare Instant Messenger is the next generation sharing network, which provides:
- A private Peer to Peer (P2P) Network which allows you to share information with only the friends you want to: So actually this Instant Messenger is a Friends-to-Friends Network.
- Retroshare Instant Messenger offers reliable Identification and Authentication of your trusted friends (RSA-Keys).
- An Introduction Scheme to bootstrap your friends over a Distributed Hash Table (DHT), which connects you your friends and facilitates network growth by easy connecting. Friends of Friends never connect.
- Because you connect direct and enryepted only to your trusted friends, it is a fast and safe transfer of files. No other open and serverless Instant Messenger has such enhanced Filesharing capabilities like you find here.
- Encrypted Communication, ensuring all shared information is known only to you and your trusted friends (neighbour peers).
- A Communication Platform which can potentially support services such as Secure Email to all of your friends, File Sharing, Video or Voice over IP and of course Instant Messaging.
- Roundabout, it is a decentralised (serverless), open source, social Sharing Network designed *for Friends* with no dependancies on any corporate system or central servers.
Download: RetroShare Instant Messenger 0.4.08a
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