Downloading Simplicity, Part III–Pidgin & Meebo

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Are you tired of logging onto AIM, and starting up conversations that go like this?

Hey wuz up!
how r u doin?
tiite, wut bout u
OH RLY, LOL!

So are we. One of these days all the stupid people will just be too dumb to utilize technology, and their reign of terror on the Internets will be done forever. Hopefully you are not typing like this, because then we’d be a lit But we do have a program that’ll make your instant messaging skills look way more high-ended.


You know the drill. You’re trying to connect to that cool foreign student to discuss some radical neo-Marxist theory or just down a lager at the nearest pub. But this means having to download and install MSN Messenger, which you swore off ever since you realized it was a complex piece of crap. Then there’s Yahoo Messenger to connect with all those people who are way older than you…and often way weirder. Add in the new Google Talk and your blog network’s IM services to talk with people in your geeky/literary circles, and that computer is sputtering to process every message from every server. Time to cut down on the filler and get something sleek.

Introducing Pidgin, formerly known to most of you as Gaim. Here you can congregate all your IM profiles together in one neat pile. This isn’t going to win any awards for aesthetics (hey, it’s Windows, you’re expecting beauty), but in terms of functionality it runs pretty smoothly. Now you can waste time more efficiently, just like you’ve always wanted to!

If you need a web browser based solution, there is Meebo, which offers many of the same IM clients that Pidgin does with the added benefit of hiding your Netspeak from your fellow employees at the workplace. Not many bells and whistles again, but for simple IM and chat functions, you can’t get much better.

Download Pidgin here.



Topics: Students, Technology

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