You might be familiar with Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Messenger or Meebo. However have you ever heard of Pidgin. I was having a painful experience past few days with Internet Messengers. I can’t log properly using Yahoo! Messenger. Due to nature of my internet connection that is really unstable and slow, my Yahoo! Messenger always crash and disconnected almost every minute. Thus it is impossible to even send a buzz. To make things worse I am connected to the internet behind proxy.
After a considerable amount of curse and profane words, I settled down and gave up. Then suddenly reminded of an internet messenger that I found in Fedora Linux sometimes ago. It was Gaim which have been christened as Pidgin. I never use it though because I don’t know the configuration. I also knew that Pidgin has a Windows version. So I guess its not a sin to try.
So I downloaded it. It was not a big file just around 12Mb. I installed it on my computer. Pidgin need to install GTK+ besides Pidgin itself because GTK+ is the dependency and Pidgin is originated from Gnome Desktop Environment. Installation was flawless.After a bit of configuration for proxy, then I tried to log in using my Yahoo! and My Hotmail account. It worked like magic. Just beautiful. No more crash up to the moment. Totally thumbs up.
I totally recommend this Internet Messenger for those who have been in endless miserable problems with Yahoo! Messenger and other Messenger. Pidgin is extremely stable. It is open source totally free and Cute…
For your information Pidgin capable of connection to AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, XMPP, ICQ, IRC, SILC, SIP/SIMPLE, Novell GroupWise, Lotus Sametime, Bonjour, Zephyr, MySpaceIM, Gadu-Gadu, and QQ all at once. This is absolutely “wicked”…
I wish I could install Linux on my machine but my Laptop is exclusively build for Windows…Huhu…Go open source…Go to hell Proprietary…Go Pidgin…
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February 3, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Aisyah
oh cool! just the thing that I need. My ym is so gila. hahaha. thanks!
February 4, 2008 at 6:29 am
elvinado
Aisyah ~ No Prob. Ini lah hikmah kalau kita give up.
February 4, 2008 at 9:09 am
LilyLulu
okies .. another way for ym .. i tau meebo
hehehe …
kewl~
February 4, 2008 at 7:27 pm
lynnx01
Cool! But I use Google talk only..
February 4, 2008 at 11:14 pm
elvinado
Lily ~ best tau guna la
Lynnx ~ even pidgin can use google Talk.
February 5, 2008 at 12:02 am
Aisyah
hikmah kalau give up? u’r the first person ever to say that. well, if u give up, u might give up chatting as well, right. disbbkan u tak give up la, u cari pidgin ni. but, pidgin ni punya site down kah?
February 5, 2008 at 12:26 am
elvinado
Aisyah ~ give up on YM la. Kalau tak give up dengan YM camner nak jumpe Pidgin. Tak down lah. Ok je.
February 5, 2008 at 12:29 am
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February 6, 2008 at 12:26 am
NoktahHitam
Wow! I looks very cool!
But the problem with these software, they cant have clickable status like I set in YM. Can it? Let me give it a try first.
February 26, 2008 at 11:01 am
winne
Hey, I recently stumble upon Pidgin but do not have a good idea about it.
I actually just started in a new company and they have block of all access to mails as well as messengers. I only can surf the internet and blog. So I am looking for an alternative or a way for me to log in to messenger. Do you have any idea if Pidgin would work for a case like mine?