How much time do you spend inside your web browser every day? Probably a lot, especially if you have an active inbox and belong to multiple social networks. Between chatting with friends, posting photos, updating statuses, reading emails, and sending calendar invites, you may get burnt out just trying to keep up with all of that activity at once. And let’s not forget about all of the tabs you have to open and passwords you have to enter just to access everything. Can’t we just get everything we need all in one place?

Well, now you can. In this article, I’m going to show you a badass new free desktop app that makes sharing and socializing across your email accounts and social networks a breeze. If any of what I just said resonated with you in any way, you will not want to miss this app!

What Is MultiMi?

MultiMi provides users with access to online services including email, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, and file storage services in one location. It was created by Zbang, which is a company that provides “simple and efficient solutions for managing the overwhelming quantity of content that people share on a daily basis.”

With MultiMi, you can :

• Share content like photos, music, and video.
• Collaborate on documents with others via Box.net or Google Docs.
• Connect Facebook Chat and Google Talk for instant messaging.
• Keep up to date with the latest Twitter trends and all the Facebook pages you like.
• Store and share files through cloud storage services simply by dragging and dropping.
• Run searches across all your emails, networks, desktop, and the web.
• Manage, share, and sync all your contacts and calendars.

You may have noticed “AVG” in the title of this article. That’s because MultiMi also incorporates AVG LinkScanner, which automatically checks links exchanged through MultiMi in real time. Before you even click a link, AVG LinkScanner has already assessed the risk profile of anything you’ve received.

MultiMi is available for Windows XP SP3 or higher and it requires 1 GB of RAM (which everybody should have) and 500 MB free hard disk space.

Getting Started with MultiMi

To start using MultiMi for all that I mentioned, head over to their homepage and download the app.

When you first start the application, you can add an account on the startup screen. Feel free to add your email account(s), Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Once you do that, you’ll notice that the main dashboard is divided into different sections:

• Messages will be where you access all of your email, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn messages.
• Social gives you news updates from Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
• Events shows your upcoming events from Google Calendar and Facebook.
• Photos will pull in your photos from Facebook, Picasa, and email attachments.
• Media is where all the music and video you’ve shared will be.
• Files will house all of your documents, etc.
• Contacts will display people you frequently talk to or email.

To view your messages, just click on Messages in the left panel and the center area will populate with messages from the accounts you’ve added. To compose a message, just click the Share button at the top of the screen and select Compose Message. You can also select the account you would like to send your message from and the contacts it is going to.

If you want to post a status update to an account, you can select Update Status and choose the account to post to. To upload images or files, click the Upload button.

And don’t forget, the app also supports GTalk and Facebook Chat, so you can communicate with your contacts directly while inside the application as well.

Conclusion

So basically, MultiMi allows you to stay connected and keep organized in a secure way, all from your desktop. Now you can kiss all those tabs in your browser goodbye!

What do you think of MultiMi? What’s the one feature you’re most excited about?