Pidgin is an free instant messaging program for Windows, BSD, Linux and other Unixes, release under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The best option on pidgin, you can be chatting with friends on ICQ, AIM, Jabber/XMPP, Yahoo!, MSN Messenger, Bonjour, IRC, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, QQ, SILC, MySpaceIM, SIMPLE and Zephyr at the same time.
Pidgin Features:
- such as file transfer
- away messages
- typing notification.
- Buddy Pounces
- plugins
- consisting of text replacement
- buddy ticker
- extended message notification
- iconify on away
- spell checking
- tabbed conversations
- themes
- emoticons
The program was originally written in or before 1999 by Mark Spencer. It was named GAIM (GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger) accordingly. Pidgin written in C, C#, Perl, Python, Tcl and Available in Multiple languages.
i luv to use pidgin, but i’ll prefer digsby, because.. digsby can display my mail status. but the problem is, digsby don’t have many emoticon as pidgin
and another one. pidgin have annoying sound if i use it