March 14, 2010
The internet was built for communication. It all started with eMails. Back in the day, when the internet was brand new to the general public, Yahoo understood one thing very well: people love to chat and exchange information. Yahoo webmail, chatrooms, and the Instant Messaging client were hot. Since then, the internet has grown. But [...]
June 11, 2009
Pidgin is the most popular multiprotocol IM client for Linux. It supports a number of networks from Yahoo IM to Google Talk to MSN and IRC. However, microblogging is creating all the buzz these days. Twitter is stealing the show. While you can use Gwibber for tweeting from the Linux desktop, you might want to [...]
February 7, 2009
Everybody’s got secrets. Passwords, Social Security numbers, a safe combination, trade secrets… Well, we can’t exactly condone corporate espionage (We’ve had enough of that, thank you very much!). However if you are, as an example, a newly-elected U.S. President, named… I don’t know… Barack (I just pulled that out of nowhere, honest!), with secrets to [...]
June 24, 2008
I am not a huge user of Facebook these days but nevertheless I have been taking a look at their newly introduced Facebook Chat because Facebook is the only medium in which I can keep in touch with a couple of long distance friends. But since I don’t like the actual Facebook website that much [...]
February 29, 2008
I widely advertise my instant messaging ID’s as I want potential clients to be able to find me easily. But the problem with doing that is that I end up with a lot of spam messages every day. Never a day goes by without automated robots sending me instant messages inviting me to talk dirty [...]
February 23, 2008
There are two groups of people in the world – those who know when to walk away from their computer and those who are tied to it 24/7. The former group will therefore hate this hack – and will wail about it in the comments. The latter group will love it. Unfortunately, I am in [...]
January 28, 2008
Pidgin (formerly GAIM) is a good multi protocol instant messaging client. I won’t say it’s the best out there, but it’s still good and worth using. If you frequently hang out on multiple instant messengers, dispose them all and start using Pidgin. Here are some tips for those who’re using Pidgin already and those who’ve [...]
