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Pidgin is a great GTK2-based instant messenger application that supports a bevy of protocols, including ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, and AIM. It's a terrific app in its own right, but when you add some of these power tools, Pidgin is even better.
pidgin-hotkeys - Use this plugin to assign global hotkeys to quickly perform regular tasks like fetching messages, toggling the buddy list, or opening the preferences pane. Also available in German and Swedish.
Everyone's favorite multi-platform instant messaging client, Pidgin, got a major update last week that includes support for voice and video. Pidgin 2.6.1 also includes more than 200 bugfixes and patches, plus a few additional new features that may not be as sexy as voice and video but are still great to have.
Other cool new features include:
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The instant messaging world became just a little more open on Wednesday when AOL released Open AIM 2.0. Some of the requirements attached to the release might still turn off open source developers, though.
The first release of Open AIM was in 2006, but that release was missing some vital documentation -- specifically, for the core protocols that work with the AIM backend. Now, theoretically, developers can write libraries/clients that authenticate and communicate just like AOL's official client without having to decipher the protocol first.
Mac users are lucky to have Adium, one of the best IM aggregation tools on the planet. On the Windows and Linux side, there are many options, but Anil Dash says Pidgin (formerly GAIM) rocks, and is following the trajectory taken by Firefox, the open source browser.
