Done Digging Digsby

Over a year and a half ago I announced that I was “digging Digsby” the multi-protocol instant messaging application. What wasn’t to love? It handled most instant messaging networks, Twitter, Facebook (added later) notifications and chat, along with some pretty solid email notification features as well. Oh, and all your settings are managed separately so

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Digsby News

Some news items regarding Digsby, my current multi-protocol IM tool of choice.

The Good News

A new version was released this week. While I have little interest in most of the new features, the new look is a welcome addition. I dig it. I like the new notification style as well.

The Bad News

Installing Digsby has become a

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Win7 Really Wants to Hide Digsby

Here’s a little oddity I’ve noticed on my Windows 7 (RC) machine since I installed Digsby (the multi-protocol chat and social network client). Digsby itself works just fine, but keeps getting shoved into hiding.

When minimized, the Digsby icon is always down in the Notification Area (what we used to call “the tray” back in the

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The Current Essential Apps List

You can find more Essential Apps at the Essential Apps page (which was added at some point after this post was created).

Due to my adventurous nature (along with hardware failures, indecision and general turmoil) I’ve had the opportunity to load some Microsoft OS’s over a dozen times in the past month on my own

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Interesting Updates

BeTwittered – I first mentioned BeTwittered in passing in my Social Bankruptcy post. It is one of many clients for Twitter, the popular micro-blog.

I haven’t used it for the past few months (Socialthing has become my favorite/easiest way to monitor all the social thingies) but I decided to have another peek at BeTwittered this

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