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For all the oldschool people who actually still use chat clients (like ICQ, MSN or AIM): check out Miranda. I have been using it for a couple of years now.
Advantages:
- Very small.
- Needs very little RAM.
- Addon system similar to Firefox: the program offers what is needed, you can get the rest (all the fancy stuff noone really wants, like games) via addons/plugins.
- You can run many chat clients on Miranda at the same time. Look at the screenshot – use see my online contacts for Facebook, ICQ, Gmail and Skype. It works for many more protocols, that means you have all your contacts from all different kinds of programs in ONE chat program. MSN, AIM, JABBER etc. pp. are supported.
- For browser-based protocols like Facebook and Gmail you do not need to have your browser opened.
- It is not green (like ICQ), it is not flashy (like ICQ), and it refrains from regularly doing stuff you very much do not want it to do (yes, you guessed already … like ICQ).
- Unfortunately, Miranda still refuses to do my dishes. But apart from that, it’s a pretty neat tool.
EDIT: No, I did not get money for posting this. Too bad really …
February 26th, 2010
February 26th, 2010 at 18:17
I have used it for a very long time, too. The only severe lack: There is no option to chat with an encrypted connection (Pidgin offers that, for example).
February 26th, 2010 at 18:39
Of course there is … I have been doing it for a long time. Let me check … there you go.
It obviously only works if both parties run the encryption (same with PGP, and most probably “Pidgin” that you mention, although I don’t know that one).
February 26th, 2010 at 23:57
Oh, sweet! Thanks alot.