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Six Multi-Service IM Clients Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trillian-for-the-win dept.

mikemuch writes "It's been a while since AOL stopped trying to jam third-party IM clients, and their use is now a fairly common desktop experience. ExtremeTech has posted a roundup of free alternatives to the standard IM software from the big boys — AIM, Yahoo Messenger, and MSN (now Windows Live) Messenger. The products are a mixed bag, some of them Web 2.0-based, like the excellent meebo and the ad-heavy eBuddy. Most give you combined message windows with tabs. GAIM is now Pidgin, Meetro tries to get you chatting with locals, and Trillian, now at version 3.1, remains the client to beat."

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  1. Just as a middle finger to the lawyers by Demona · · Score: 4, Funny

    They should have called it PING: Pidgin Is Not Gaim.

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    1. Re:Just as a middle finger to the lawyers by zalas · · Score: 5, Funny

      How about: Pidgin Is Definitely Gaim In Nature
      ?

  2. E_NOT_RECURSIVE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sorry but I had to throw an exception on this one; all that trouble and it's not even a recursive acronym? Should try to go for triple recursion!

    PING Is Not GAIM
    GAIM Ain't Incorporating a MOP
    Move On to PING

    YMMV

  3. Re:have you heard the latest? by Aladrin · · Score: 2, Funny

    That was 2000 years ago! It's improved since then. Have him try it again.

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