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Imagine, you can have a chat with all of your friend's from AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Gtalk all with a single application. Yes, it is possible now, you no more need to open up different messenger programs.

Here's the solution for it !

Pidgin, a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client which allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

It's an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.

It can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.

At the same time you can login to:

• AIM
• Bonjour
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• Groupwise
• ICQ
• IRC
• MSN
• QQ
• SILC
• SIMPLE
• Sametime
• XMPP/Jabber
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr

It runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems.
Pidgin is a Free Software . It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it and to modify it.

Pidgin Download Link : http://pidgin.im

Since it's under constant development, releases are usually frequent.

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