Comments on: Pidgin - Tips and Tricks

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IM Feeds: A Tool for the RSS Power User | MakeUseOf.com — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:25:27 +0000

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By: Maj

Maj — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:31:19 +0000

Having a lot of files doesn’t “harm” your hard drive. That’s what it’s for. The amount of space taken by having many small text files compared to one large file is negligible.

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6 Alternative Chat Applications for MSN on Mac OS X | MakeUseOf.com — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:03:52 +0000

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By: Mackenzie Morgan

Mackenzie Morgan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:42:38 +0000

AIM ones seem to work fine. The XMPP protocol simply doesn’t support them though.

By: Mackenzie Morgan

Mackenzie Morgan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:41:17 +0000

That’s not right. Having separate files means it’s not getting fragmented. Fragmentation occurs when you try to write big file and don’t have a large enough chunk of free space. If it was all in one giant DB, that would happen. The separate small files mean each file can be perfectly contiguous instead of fragmenting. Also, the number of files you have has no effect whatsoever on your hard drive. It cannot possibly be harming your drive. If your drive is dying, that’s because hard drives have moving parts and just sorta die after a while.

By: Chuqui

Chuqui — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:24:52 +0000

Hi, I was told that the HDD cannot be fragmented in Ubuntu, because the way it handle with files, totally different to Windows.

Can someone tell me if Pidgin could really harm my hard drive??

By: Rakshit

Rakshit — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:13:57 +0000

I love Pidgin simply because it helps me to identify the person who has blocked me on google talk- a feature that is missing in GTalk.

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Tools to use with your Instant Messenger | MakeUseOf.com — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:58:06 +0000

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By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:56:05 +0000

Thanks for dropping by man. I too don’t like Pidgin for one reason: most of the time, file transfers don’t go well when using it.

By: parth

parth — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:25:35 +0000

I love pidgin… but its missing 2 good things…

1.Broadcast: i mean send message to multiple contacts from your list at once. ok i can live without this. but 2nd one is most needed..

2. pidgin makes small chunks of files for logging. it makes separate file for each session between same contact also… instead it must use history db like miranda im or can use separate log history file for each contact… right now its making many fragments in memory..very large number of files harming my HDD.

Parth barot.

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:45:05 +0000

Shankar,
Thanks for the reply but the buddy ticker does not do what I want, since I can’t get a vertical, non-scrolling list through it.

Here is the smallest size I can get for the regular buddy list. For 99% of my pidgin use I only need the area marked with red (but with even less width than that). That is, a list of names plus a status icon for each name. The other features could be put in a tray area icon right click menu.
http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/1936/pidginpm6.png

By: Aibek

Aibek — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 02:48:17 +0000

Google Talk is able to do what Pidgin does and accommodate contacts from other IM platforms.

We all wish …

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:14:54 +0000

Jan,

I tried looking in the settings, and I couldn’t find anything like adjusting the contact window sizes, etc.
But in replacement to the list, you could use the Buddy Ticker plugin by activating it from Tools >> Plugins.

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:12:33 +0000

Yup, I’m also eagerly waiting for the next version of GTalk. I hope the developers are working on adding new things to it. But I still love the way it is though, it’s pretty much very minimal for an IM.