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A couple of weeks ago the Facebook folks announced their support for Jabber/XMPP. If you’re a Facebook fan this is a big deal as that announcement opens up FB chat to all of the multi-protocol IM applications. No more having to endure the web-based version. If you’re a Pidgin user, as I am, check out this As I spend more time with Linux I’ve been slowly modifying my most often used apps. I have been experimenting and trying alternatives to some old favorites as I quest for apps that work with both Windows and Linux. Perhaps a lofty goal, but I think I’ve been getting close. Not quite ready to update  February 2nd, 2010 |  Tags: adobe-AIR, Dropbox, Evernote, eWallet, firefox, Google-Chrome, Googsystray, openOffice, Pidgin, TweetDeck, wine, xmarks |  Leave a comment 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 December 20th, 2009 | Tags: Digsby, gmail, Gmail-Manager, im, Pidgin, social-networking, trillian, TweetDeck | 4 comments Did you try Digsby but drop it when you noticed memory usage in the 50 – 120MB range? I guess I can confess that is exactly what I did… I really liked using Digsby, but that footprint really began to bug me. Good news: the latest beta seems to have dramatically reduced the memory consumption A couple days ago I asked (via twitter) for advice on a simple IM client that would help me with my multiple Google Talk IDs. I mean, I know meebo would work but was hoping for something that doesn’t need as much screen space. [Which reminds me: I wonder if the meebo Firefox sidebar add-on June 5th, 2008 | Tags: Digsby, email, gmail, google-talk, im, meebo, Pidgin, trillian, twitter | 3 comments |
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