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- If your users must IM, at least spare them from using adware
- IM clients from the biggies--AOL, Yahoo, MSN and so on--are full of annoying advertising. Spare your users from the sales pitch and put the focus back on communication by providing alternative client software. William Jones looks at Adium and Pidgin. by William Jones
- Tags: Adware, Advertisement, Open Source, IM, Jabber, Pidgin, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, William Jones
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Pidgin (exe)
- Pidgin formerly known as Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for BSD and Windows. It is compatible with AIM Oscar and TOC protocols, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks. Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that...
- Tags: AOL Instant Messenger, IRC, IM, Plug-in, Pidgin, Instant Messaging, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-05-19
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- Pidgin Portable (exe)
- Pidgin Portable formerly Gaim Portable is the versatile Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's...
- Tags: IM, Plug-in, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-05-28
- Bapuli Online messaging (zip)
- This easy to use free IRC server software allows instant messaging within a home network using instant messaging clients like Pidgin and Miranda IM and others. The software does not require configuring .conf files and other such settings. Best suited for wireless networks within a home. This version is the...
- Tags: Software, IM, Messaging, Instant Messaging, Software Development, Tools & Techniques, Internet, Online Communications, Software/Web Development, Management
- Software downloads 2008-05-14
- IM-History (exe)
- Easy to install application that allows you to store chat history online. When IM-HISTORY is running on your PC, it saves messages you send/receive via Instant Messengers IM. It now supports: ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, Skype, Miranda, QIP, Trillian. AIM, GTalk, Kopete, Pidgin are coming soon. The history is stored on...
- Tags: Instant Messenger, History, Service, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2007-09-24
- Retroshare (exe)
- Filesharing and searching/sending Mp3 like in Limewire, Edonkey, or Retroshare is as well as easy as to your friends online: Everything is encrypted, so you have a secure communication & chat environment to your friends in this Instant Messenger like Pidgin or MSN. The world novelty of CyberSpace p2p Messenger...
- Tags: Private Key, RS Technologies, Firewalls, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-05-22
- Ubuntu question
- Hi, i recently installed ubuntu 7.04 feeisty, and upgraded to 7.10 gutsy. I havnt been using linux long, and know little. So far I have been doing all right, and have most major programs and utilities. Only problem is pidgin. I have a yahoo IM account, but every time i...
- Tags: Instant messaging, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, kal_lmn@..., Ubuntu, Only Problem
- Discussion threads 2007-10-25
- After XP Clean install on your personal comp, What apps do you add?
- I'm doing a clean Win XP install its been a while on my personal computer. This gives me a chance to start over with my applications etc.What apps do you always add after your clean installs? besides Office or open office?-thanksWell, for starters . . .1. a third...
- Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Web browsers, craig.schuff@..., AVG, Microsoft Office, clean install, Microsoft Windows XP
- Discussion threads 2007-09-25
- The importance of being encrypted
- People often complain that using encryption in email is too much work. Sometimes, it can be fraught with difficulty for the encryption novice. Managing public and private keys can be confusing at first, and getting someone at the other end to use encryption as well can sometimes be...
- Tags: Data, Server, Encryption, E-mail, Security, Online Communications, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Work with end users -- not against them -- to improve security
- In his recent blog post, "The six consumer technologies that are destroying traditional IT," Jason Hiner comments on consumer technologies that are sneaking into the workplace and causing problems for some IT departments' attempts to maintain network and information security. He also makes the point that this isn't just a problem with end...
- Tags: Security, Information Technology, IM, Problem, Policy, Instant-messaging Technology, Instant Messaging, Internet, Online Communications, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- Top IT news for May 2: Microsoft leaning toward hostile bid, Yahoo close to Google search deal, Sun layoffs
- Top five headlines Report: Microsoft latest leaning is to go hostile Yahoo reportedly closer to Google search deal Sun plans layoffs following weak quarter; Blames U.S. economy Interop: Motorola predicts end of wired enterprise networks Intel's 10Gb NIC to ship in May ...
- Tags: Google Inc., TechRepublic Inc., Layoff, Information Technology, Sun Microsystems Inc., Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Search, IBM Corp., Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Why encryption that doesn't trust the user isn't trustworthy
- In the words of Wikipedia's article on pseudorandomness at the time of this writing, "a pseudorandom process is a process that appears to be random but is not." In programming, the term "pseudorandom" is most often used to refer to number generators that produce numbers with the statistical appearance...
- Tags: Encryption, Number Generator, Encryption System, Security, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- WHT I DO
- WHT I DO PLS HELP ANYONEstop spamming?for starters...One day wonder?Only time will tell.Please provide complete information regarding the subject you would like assistance with. We're geeks, not mind readers. Except for sometimes. Just not today. Or right now.How do I get myself into these things?You're too...
- Tags: Spam, SECURITY, vipin_pandey17@..., Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
- Discussion threads 2007-07-02
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