tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-162663582024-03-23T19:59:15.994+02:00Instant MessagingInstant messenger reviews, IM services and toolsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-28244538400307067822008-06-28T13:09:00.005+02:002008-06-28T13:19:54.128+02:00A new version of Instan-t Enterprise Messenger<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKDzJfMUSohvn4r2ZdkHwGfGEcBgv8w2Qp-L-Amz6ywOy_4ZRLjnHdAEPzZeTg8rtph5rPX_LXPW9C_uZIheD7nWGrIsYUiY3aGn3LeTqyNWzFjNIWlVfrSmQAiuJdY_a5y9G/s1600-h/promo-it-no-logo-386x372.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOKDzJfMUSohvn4r2ZdkHwGfGEcBgv8w2Qp-L-Amz6ywOy_4ZRLjnHdAEPzZeTg8rtph5rPX_LXPW9C_uZIheD7nWGrIsYUiY3aGn3LeTqyNWzFjNIWlVfrSmQAiuJdY_a5y9G/s200/promo-it-no-logo-386x372.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216890401056725074" /></a>This new version of <a href="http://www.interactiveni.com/" rel="nofollow">Instan-t</a> includes a wide range of improvements and brand new collaborative features that allows an integration to meet enterprises´ specific needs. In this way, companies can prevent their users from running public IMs (MSN ®, Gtalk®, AOL®, ICQ® & Yahoo®) and <span style="font-weight:bold;">control who is allowed to communicate with them</span>. Besides, it offers <span style="font-weight:bold;">multi person chat with voice and video</span>, centralized <span style="font-weight:bold;">message archiving</span>, send and receive SMS to/from mobile devices, integration with Active Directory, online presentations and computer sharing, among others. Finally, <span style="font-weight:bold;">its web-based administration console permits complete control of the IM network</span> in addition to new possibilities as custom defined management levels, create and modify users, enable or disable specific features and check monthly and daily new user registration statistics.<br /><br />The company offers both a server and a hosted (ASP) model and four enterprise editions with different sets of features to adapt to the needs and budget of each organization.<br /><br />If you are interested, more information is available <a href="http://www.interactiveni.com/Enterprise/imhomebusiness.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />Free trials are available <a href="http://www.interactiveni.com/Enterprise/imtryit.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-38381313406926984182008-06-28T13:00:00.002+02:002008-06-28T13:05:39.906+02:00Vbuzzer Messenger<a href="http://www.vbuzzer.com" rel="nofollow">Vbuzzer</a> is an unique instant messenger that combines VoIP, internet fax, RSS, and multi protocol with Windows Live, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ Instant Messengers. While we all know a few other "all-in-ones" out there, none offers the same "all-in-one" to the extent Vbuzzer offers (VoIP+Fax+RSS+Multi Protocol).<br /><br />I like Vbuzzer's robustness, stability and clearness. Noticing it didn't embed the GIPS engine as everyone else have done, Vbuzzer still achieves great voice quality in all network conditions that can rival Skype, if not better. The multi-protocol IM<br />function is also my favorite daily tool.<br /><br />You can download Vbuzzer <a href="http://www.vbuzzer.com/download.php" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1761497164129113232007-06-06T12:12:00.000+02:002007-06-06T12:44:53.814+02:00Pidgin tips and enhancements<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.pidgin.im/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6zxLKsOkqrhm-CemLXcOf4FwllCtP_wKyfuEPwP_TwgBr6ItEW9I12yRtbbYIigyB6jsY0aH7stzo7L23hjaC91mipMWhVvIgM4EvT-fIw40GBT8gGmjClz_58WvdvROq0hfX/s400/pidginlogo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5072892644358978866" border="0" /></a>After the rename and the new version Pidgin became more popular than ever. Some people started calling it "The Firefox of the instant messengers". However I think that Pidgin needs a lot of time and hard work to deserve such words. I've been using it for the last few days and here are some useful or not that useful but interesting tips I've found on the web:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >How to configure Pidgin to work with Google Talk</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.manast.com/2007/05/11/how-to-configure-pidgin-to-work-with-google-talk/">Manast.com</a> offers a working (at least for the most people) solution. Pidgin doesn't have all of the features of Google Talk client. However I feel much better using one application for most of the instant messaging protocols.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >How to install Pidgin 2.0.0 on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)</span><br /><br />There are a lot of different solutions around the web but I prefer the <a href="http://www.debuntu.org/pidgin-2.0.0-deb-ubuntu-feisty-fawn">Debuntu solution</a>. Just add the Debuntu repository and then download and install Pidgin.<br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Visual enhancements</span></span><br /><br />Here are some Pidgin themes, icons and emoticons:<br /><ul><li>Original Yahoo and MSN emoticons for Pidgin - <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Original+Yahoo+%26+MSN+Emoticons+4+Pidgin?content=59794">preview and download</a><br /></li><li>Human Theme - great for Ubuntu fans - <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Human+Pidgin%2BGaim+Theme?content=59616">preview and download</a></li><li>Windows Vista style icons - <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Pidgin_VisTa?content=58836">preview and download</a></li><li>OSX style icons - <a href="http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Pidgin_osX?content=58752">preview and download</a></li></ul><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Using Amarok? Show your friends what you are listening to</span></span><br /><br />Get <a href="http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/AmarokPidgin?content=48025">this Amarok script</a> - it <span class="smallcontenttext">updates your Pidgin status message with what you are<br />currently listening to.<br /><br /><br />That is the list for now. I'll keep looking for other interesting tips and news related to Pidgin and I'll post them here.<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-37305499231578431012007-05-03T06:41:00.000+02:002007-05-03T13:38:51.436+02:00Yahoo! Messenger for the Web<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/02/yahoo-launches-browser-version-of-messenger/" target="_blank">Techcrunch</a> announced few hours ago that the Flash-based <a href="http://messenger.yahoo.com/webmessenger.php" target="_blank">Yahoo! Web Messenger</a> will be launched today. You can chat with both Yahoo! and Windows Live Messenger friends because of the integration with the Microsoft's messenger. It doesn't have all the features of the desktop Yahoo! Messenger but it's looking very promising to me.<br /><br />To start the web instant messenger go to <a href="http://webmessenger.yahoo.com/">http://webmessenger.yahoo.com</a> or <a href="http://web.im/">http://web.im</a>.<br /><br /><embed src="http://us.i1.yimg.com/cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/player/media/swf/FLVVideoSolo.swf" flashvars="id=2581443&emailUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Futil%2Fmail%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26vid%3D473881%26fr%3D&imUrl=http%253A%252F%252Fvideo.yahoo.com%252Fvideo%252Fplay%253Fei%253DUTF-8%2526vid%253D473881&imTitle=Yahoo%2521%2BMessenger%2Bfor%2Bthe%2BWeb%2Bdemo%2Bvideo&searchUrl=http://video.yahoo.com/video/search?p=&profileUrl=http://video.yahoo.com/video/profile?yid=&creatorValue=eW1lc3NlbmdlcmJsb2c%3D&vid=473881" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="350" width="425"></embed><br /><br /><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com/2007/04/more-web-based-instant-messengers.html">More web based instant messengers are listed here</a>.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-25014569982662796782007-04-30T22:33:00.000+02:002007-04-30T22:58:22.365+02:00iVisit - Video Conferencing for PC and Mac<a href="http://www.ivisit.com/" target="_blank">iVisit</a> is an application which can be used for multi-party video conferencing. You can share all kind of files (pictures, videos, music, etc.) during the conversation. It has versions for both PC and Mac. You can interact privately one on one, in eight way videoconference rooms, 100 party channels. iVisit is great for teams, business meetings, schools, communities. The lite version is absolutely free.<br /><br />Related: What to do if you <a href="http://paco.to/?p=170" target="_blank">forget your iVisit password</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-29142707746772725512007-04-29T16:57:00.000+02:002007-04-29T17:03:49.136+02:00Textbased MSN Client<a href="http://tmsnc.sourceforge.net/">TMSNC</a> (from Textbased MSN Client) is a textbased (console) client for the MSN Messenger protocol. It works on Linux, MacOS and BSD systems. The goal of this project is to create a client like MSN Messenger (with sound, webcam and file transfer support), but without any graphical features. The current version of this messenger is 0.3.2. You can download Textbased MSN Client <a href="http://tmsnc.sourceforge.net/download.html">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-32144409803869720442007-04-28T17:27:00.000+02:002007-04-28T17:44:28.276+02:00KMess - Open Source Messenger for Linux<div style="text-align: justify;"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6px 6px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 164px;" src="http://www.kmess.org/screenshots/kmess1.5/chat-style2.png" alt="" border="0" /><a href="http://www.kmess.org/">KMess</a> (current version: 1.5-pre2) is an open source chat client for Linux which allows you to chat with your friends who are using MSN Messenger. It focuses on the specific features of MSN.<br /><br />Some of the main features of KMess are:<br /></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Support for group chats with multiple contacts.</li><li>Picture and file transfers.</li><li>Emoticons and text formatting are supported.</li><li>Chat logging.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">You can read more about its features <a href="http://www.kmess.org/features/">here</a> and download it <a href="http://www.kmess.org/download/">here</a>.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-63322841357160408192007-04-28T11:34:00.000+02:002007-05-06T20:19:42.699+02:00ooVoo - Video Messenger<div style="text-align: justify;"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 6px 6px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdDGsY7vPrGw6hp_IY9EMXiBGyKGtXEbOtQxUIuEBdIuiySMsTO0qC27jMYLbytCF5s5n67yVMu76Y1LtD6My4TKOSeu-obwRVQ6zlwZqoNUoJE8VDrLxFD2T1lICRQFGU5ouf/s200/oovoo.jpg" alt="ooVoo video messenger" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5058415802276242626" border="0" /><a href="http://www.oovoo.com/" target="_blank">ooVoo</a> is a free application which you can use to talk face-to-face with your friends with high quality video and audio. Using ooVoo you are able to:<br /></div><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li>Include up to five people in your conversation.</li><li>Send video messages to a specific person or a group of them.</li><li>Of course, text messages and file transfers are possible.</li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;">The application has a nice 3d video interface which is convenient and intuitive and nicely compliments the Vista style. All you need is a webcam and a headset (or separate microphone and speakers, of course). The installation takes up to 20 MB.<br /><br />It seems that ooVoo is trying to be a competitor of <a href="http://www.skype.com/" target="_blank">Skype</a>. Unfortunately, with ooVoo you cannot call out to standard phones. However there is click-to-call, and the ability to send video messages to non-ooVoo users. The quality of the video and the sound is definitely noticeable.<br /><br />The ooVoo instant messenger is definitely a very interesting and useful application. One of the biggest problems would be to convince your contacts to switch to ooVoo.<br /><br />I've found <a href="http://talk.sheknows.com/showthread.php?p=5712574#post5712574" target="_blank">here</a> an interesting story of two people who married using the ooVoo messenger. I don't know if it's real but it sounds like a funny and exciting story.<br /><br /><iframe src="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll.php?poll=11017&width=300&fontsize=12&height=285&fontface=Verdana&padding=10&textcolor=%23000000&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&doublespace=0&borderwidth=0&linkmap=0&bordercolor=%23cccccc" width="320" height="262" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"><a href="http://polls.blogflux.com/poll-11017.html">Take the poll</a><br /><br /><a href="http://polls.blogflux.com/">Free Poll by Blog Flux</a></iframe><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-20269647438064116062007-04-28T04:33:00.000+02:002007-04-27T18:32:53.019+02:00More Web-Based Instant MessengersAbout an year and a half ago I've posted a list of <a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com/2005/10/web-based-instant-messengers.html">some of the most popular web-based instant messengers</a>. Meanwhile many new versions and new messengers appeared. Here is a list of those of the messengers I've found most impressive and interesting:<br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ninja IM - Instant messaging for office ninjas</span><br /><a href="http://www.ninjaim.com/" target="_blank">http://www.ninjaim.com/</a><br />Now you can IM with your friends and co-workers in the office! For all you who work in an office where IM clients like MSN messenger, Yahoo! messenger and Google Talk are prohibited, you'll love this.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">KoolIM</span><br /><a href="http://www.koolim.com/" target="_blank">http://www.koolim.com/</a><br />KoolIM.com is a web messenger application that allows you to stay connected with your favorite Instant Messenger almost anywhere. You need a computer with just a browser only. You can sign in to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and ICQ.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meetro</span><br /><a href="http://www.meetro.com/" target="_blank">http://www.meetro.com/</a><br />Meetro is the world's first location-aware IM client and real-time social network - which means Meetro allows you to meet real people in your neighborhood. It works with MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and AIM.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">RadiusIM</span><br /><a href="http://www.radiusim.com/" target="_blank">http://www.radiusim.com/</a><br />You can use your MSN, Yahoo and AIM accounts here. The most interesting thing here is that the users are placed on a map and you can see where your friends are and find more people in a region specified by you. You should definitely try it.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Plugoo</span><br /><a href="http://www.plugoo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.plugoo.com/</a><br />You can use Plugoo to chat directly from your favorite instant messenger with any visitor of your blog or any website you own. When you’re logged into your instant messenger (Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM, Google Talk, Jabber, ICQ), you can receive in real time all the comments of your visitors or any question they might ask, and answer instantly!<br /></li></ul><br /><br />And these are the messengers I've already written about but they are worth mentioning again:<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Meebo</span><br /><a href="http://www.meebo.com/" target="_blank">http://www.meebo.com/</a><br />In my opinion, this is best web-based messenger I've seen.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Goowy</span><br /><a href="http://www.goowy.com/index.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.goowy.com/</a><br />Goowy is a service that offers you simple, intuitive tools for communicating and sharing on the web.<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Talk inside Gmail</span><br /><a href="https://mail.google.com/" target="_blank">https://mail.google.com/</a><br />Of course, everyone knows about the chat integrated into Gmail. One of the best additions to the Gmail interface.<br /></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-88181467039476377762007-04-25T16:51:00.000+02:002007-04-25T17:04:50.591+02:00Cool IM Websites (Part 1)All the emoticons and national flags available in Skype are <a href="http://factoryjoe.com/projects/emoticons/">listed here</a>.<br /><br />Wondering if your friends at Yahoo Messenger are trying to be invisible? <a href="http://www.buddy-spy.com/">Check here</a> - Buddy Spy will also tell you whether your friend is in a Chat Room or even if their Web Cam is online.<br /><br />If you don't like to minimize Skype/Google Talk/MSN to look at your RSS reader, you can get your favorite feeds directly in your favorite messenger with <a href="http://www.anothr.com/">Anothr</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1157019542609889802006-08-31T12:03:00.000+02:002006-08-31T12:20:07.600+02:00Universal Instant Messaging Platform by VoiceOneVoiceOne™ Communications presented a new <span style="font-weight: bold;">universal instant messaging platform</span> that <span style="font-weight: bold;">integrates the instant messaging services</span> of Google (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Talk</span>), Yahoo (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Yahoo Messenger</span>), <span style="font-weight: bold;">MSN</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">AOL IM</span>. By using this service provided on <a href="http://click4me.net">Click4Me.net</a> and <a href="http://labs.voiceone.com">VoiceOne Labs</a> the users can send messages between any of the four services. For instance, Google Talk users can send instant messages to MSN users, or AOL users, or Yahoo! IM users - using Click4Me.Net - without having to use separate Instant Messaging clients for each service.<br /><br />VoiceOne has added this IM integrated functionality to its recently released beta version of Click4Me.Net, the world's first Web-click calling service that utilizes VoIP technology for free phone-to-phone calling, and now Instant Messaging across services. Click4Me.Net is available for testing on <a href="http://labs.voiceone.com">VoiceOne's Virtual Lab</a> - an open forum for users to preview, test free of charge, and provide feedback on new IP communications services developed by VoiceOne.<br /><br />To start using the Click4Me.Net service, just register for <span style="font-weight: bold;">free</span>. The members can then review, provide feedback on the service or discuss additional IP communications services with VoIP Inc.'s development team.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Features:</span><br /><ul><li>SMS Text messaging to users, </li><li>An online Inbox allowing people to leave messages for one another on the Click4Me.Net website,</li><li>Email and SMS text notifications of missed calls or new messages,</li><li>Instant Messaging across popular IM services.</li></ul><br />VoiceOne will add more expanded and new features in the coming days and weeks.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1156597787249840242006-08-26T15:01:00.000+02:002007-04-29T12:31:22.479+02:00New Generation of IM Worms<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7683/1482/1600/b7nature_animals_insects011.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7683/1482/200/b7nature_animals_insects011.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>According to <a href="http://www.kaspersky.com/">Kaspersky Labs</a>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">new generation of instant messaging worms is spreading across protocols and platforms</span>. We have seen a lot of worms which were specific to a single instant messaging protocol, for example MSN or AOL. However, the next generation of worms poses a much greater threat because of their ability to use different IM protocols to spread. And more - they can attack both Microsoft Windows and Mac platforms.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Of course, <span style="font-weight: bold;">if the instant messaging user is smart and careful enough</span>, the computer will be safe. It's very important not to open any attachments or URLs sent by unknown persons. Even more - if you receive an attachment or URL by someone in your buddy list, always ask him what he's sending you. Maybe he doesn't even know that his computer is under the control of a worm.<br /><br />Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.postini.com">Postini</a> announced that there is a 160% increase over June in <span style="font-weight: bold;">instant messaging attacks against corporate networks</span>. One of the detected IM threats is Prokeylogger, which logs every key you type on your keyboard and gets your passwords. Then it sends this information to their owners, which can get details about your e-mails, credit cards, other sensitive personal information.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1147727662433241592006-05-15T23:07:00.000+02:002007-04-29T12:31:22.479+02:00Free calls in US and CanadaAll US and Canadian-based Skype customers can now make <span style="font-weight:bold;">free</span> SkypeOut calls to traditional landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada. This offer is valid until the end of 2006 year.<br /><br />While SkypeOut calls within the US and Canada will now be free, SkypeOut calls to and within all other countries will continue to incur charges. Those charges are unchanged by today’s announcement and remain among the lowest available to consumers.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Skype website</a><br /><br /><a href="http://download.skype.com/SkypeSetup.exe?200105.exe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download the latest Skype 2.0.0.105 (Windows)</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1144509630362094052006-04-08T17:09:00.000+02:002007-04-27T18:39:06.303+02:00IMVITE - Multi-MessengerThe IMVITE multi-messenger is a free application that puts you in control. Users can control who can see their online status and Imvite supports all major platforms: MSN, Yahoo, AOL, ICQ and more. Imvite supports news feeds, Google search and online shopping.<br /><br />With IMVITE to IMVITE chat, messages are secured with 128 bit encryption, ensuring maximum privacy.<br /><br />IMVITE features a spam free zone with Free worldwide PC-to-PC calls. With a speaker and a microphone, users can chat with friends and colleagues worldwide free of charge.<br /><br />The most important features are:<br /><ul><li><span style="color:black;">All-in-one Instant Messenger. </span><span style="color:black;">Chat with all your contacts from YAHOO, MSN, AOL and ICQ. </span>Chat with your friends on different networks all at once.</li><li><span style="color:black;">Free Live Video & Audio Chat!</span></li><li><span style="color:black;">Personalized RSS News, Encrypted Secure Chat, Share Files, and much more.</span></li><li><span style="color:black;">Cash Rebates on all your purchases from over 1,000 stores at the IMVITE Shopping Mall.</span></li><li><span style="color:black;">The free version includes all these features.</span></li></ul><span style="color:black;">More details are available <a href="http://www.imvite.com/features.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />To download it, you must register <a href="http://www.imvite.com/register.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a> (free).<br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1143480138318913742006-03-27T19:13:00.000+02:002007-04-27T18:39:06.304+02:00Lycos Phone Beta - an amazing offer<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lycos Phone</span> Beta offers the following great features:<br /><br />- <span style="font-weight: bold;">Free </span>US phone number;<br />- 100 <span style="font-weight: bold;">free </span>minutes just to start and then earn free talk time through partner offers;<br />- Lycos Phone is not just a great phone. Upload your MP3 files and listen to music while you chat. Add a webcam for video calls. Watch movie trailers, music videos, and live TV from Bloomberg, NASA, and more...<br /><br />Of course features like free pc-to-pc calls, free incoming calls, low rates are available. Also, sign up with your e-mail address and you'll receive free gold membership.<br /><br />The main window shows rotating ads. However if you use some of the advertised products, you'll receive cash in your Lycos Phone account.<br /><br /><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7683/1482/1600/SCRSHOT-0002.1.jpg" rel="nofollow">Screenshot of the main window</a><br /><br />By signing up you receive $1 and a free US phone number as a gold member. I already received a number and tested it, so this is one of the great features of this service.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lycos.globe7.com/" rel="nofollow">Official website</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.lycos.globe7.com/download.php" rel="nofollow">Download</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1141466977684680572006-03-04T11:54:00.000+02:002007-04-27T18:40:16.159+02:00Search for Web's Top Video ContentThe <a href="http://www.searchforvideo.com/misc/im.jsp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Searchforvideo IM service</a> now works not only in AOL IM but also in other major instant messengers - Yahoo IM and MSN. It's really easy to search for video without opening your web browser. Just write "search phrase" and the Searchforvideo buddy will show you a list with the best matches.<br /><br />Also you can subscribe for alerts or look at the most watched videos by the other users of this service.<br /><br />For AIM, you just need to add "searchforvideo" to your buddy list, for MSN add "searchforvideo@hotmail.com" to your contacts list and in Yahoo IM - add "searchformedia" to your friends list. That's all. Then just write to the bot - here is a list of the available commands:<br /><ul><li>search keyword(s) - Example: search super bowl</li><li>alert on - That way you'll subscribe to receive the Headline video alerts</li><li>alert off - Turns it off</li><li>spy watched - See the most recently watched video clips at searchforvideo</li><li>spy searched - See the most recent searches at searchforvideo</li><li>spy added - See the video clips most recently added to searchforvideo</li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1140430057493445632006-02-20T11:56:00.000+02:002007-04-27T18:40:16.159+02:00Recording your voice conversationsWith <a href="http://www.voiceemotion.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">vEmotion</a> you can record all your voice conversations. It is enabled with Skype, other supported IMs include Msn Messenger, AOL Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google talk, Tencent QQ. One can tune up all these big IMs with single installation of the program.<br /><br />The main features are:<br /><ul><li>Set background music for Instant Messenger voice conversations. So as to share music among you and your friends.</li><li>Send voice emotions/sound effects to your friends who take part in a voice conversations. Anything you have inconvenience in expressing it with your mouth or text, you can communicate it by voice emotions.</li><li>Record calls into audio files with perfect quality for future review. And manage/replay the call records easily.</li><li>It supports the most prevalent audio formats, currently including MP3 and WAVE. Supporting for OGG and WMA will be available before long.</li></ul><br />Since the beta version was released, the program has been updated several times. Now, the latest version is 2.0.8.99. People do appreciate the vibrant developing team behind the product. It was said that they are still endeavoring to develop new features for coming versions.<br /><br />The most attractive aspect, I noticed, is that vEmotion is free to use. No expiration limitation was imposed on it, despite some trivial limitations for recorder users. For an average user, these limitations are completely reasonable and acceptable. After all, you can experience all its functionality without paying.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.voiceemotion.com/inst_pkgs/vEmotion%5Beng%5D_2.0.8.99.exe" rel="nofollow" traget="_blank">Download</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1139644465365562422006-02-11T09:47:00.000+02:002007-04-29T12:31:22.480+02:00Important Update for Miranda IM UsersThere is an important patch for Miranda IM. If you use the ICQ protocol you could lose some messages. The bug is defined as "unknown TLV(19) bug".<br /><br />To fix this problem, you have to download and replace the file icq.dll in the Miranda folder.<br /><br /><a href="http://addons.miranda-im.org/feed.php?dlfile=1683">Download icq.dll</a><br /><br />It seems that the ICQ protocol has been changed a little bit and that's why only the official ICQ client is working properly. Other clients like Miranda and QIP must be updated. For QIP you just need to download the <a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com/2005/09/qip-messenger-of-russians.html">latest alpha version</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1139309574252321992006-02-07T12:48:00.000+02:002007-04-25T20:22:45.862+02:00Chat Inside Gmail<div style="float: right;"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 143px; height: 59px;" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/help/images/logo1.gif" alt="" border="0" /></div><br />Use Google Talk and Gmail together. Now you can chat with anyone with Gmail account without leaving your Gmail interface.<br /><br />Chat with your friends from right inside Gmail. There's no need to load a separate program or look up new addresses. It's just one click to chat with the people you already email, as well as anyone on the Google Talk network. And now you can even save and search for chats in your Gmail account.<br /><br />Full details are available <a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/help/chat.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1138221156172617862006-01-25T22:27:00.000+02:002006-01-25T22:33:42.130+02:00Zoep - A Free Phone for FirefoxZoep, an Internet Telephony service, have released Zoep Browser Phone for Firefox users. Zoep Phone is a Firefox addon that lets you make free calls to other Zoep users from your Firefox browser.<br /><br />PC to PC calls are free and like other popular services there is a pre-pay PC to Phone option. Zoep can communicate with other open Jabber based services like Google Talk for Instant Messaging.<br /><br />Zoep Firefox extension is currently for Windows only and requires Firefox version 1.5. Voice-mail, SMS and an inbound phone number to accept incoming calls from landlines or mobile phones are expected in future versios of Zoep.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.glaxstar.com/zoep/" rel="nofollow">Zoep Website</a><br /><a href="http://www.glaxstar.com/zoep/zoep-0.8.1.xpi" rel="nofollow">Install the extension</a><br /><a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/01/use-firefox-to-make-or-receive-free.html" rel="nofollow">Source of this info</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1138180178714183412006-01-25T11:02:00.000+02:002006-02-03T12:15:42.360+02:00IBM Instant Messenger Linked With Google, Yahoo And AOL<p>Customers of Time Warner's <a href="http://www.aim.com" target=_blank rel="nofollow">AOL</a>, <a href="http://talk.google.com" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Google's Gtalk</a> and <a href="http://messenger.yahoo.com" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger</a> will be able to communicate freely to users of IBM's instant messaging system. </p><p> </p><p>The feature will be available free-of-charge in the <a href="http://www-142.ibm.com/software/sw-lotus/products/product3.nsf/wdocs/homepage" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Lotus Sametime v7.5</a>, combining IBM's market to Yahoo's 60 mln users, and AOL's 43 mln users. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1137745462280742322006-01-20T10:13:00.000+02:002006-02-03T12:16:31.636+02:00Community Chat - multi-room cross-platform web chat applicationFlashComs, a developer of flash based communications, has released <span style="font-weight: bold;">Community Chat</span>, a multi-room cross-platform Web chat application. Community Chat can be installed to any Web server both under UNIX/windows platform and does not require any additional software. The Chat can be integrated with a Web site user's database to import user login and personal details into chat. Apart from advanced text formatting, the Chat includes other user options: sound settings include volume control, mute option, different sounds choices for incoming, outgoing, private, and system messages. In addition to default rooms created by administrator, users can create their own rooms and invite chat users to join them. Community Chat users can block all incoming messages from un-welcome chatters. A user can be added or removed from a personal black list at any time. Chat availability status can be changed by clicking on one of the status icons.<br /><br />List of the features:<br /><ul><li>Advanced Text Formatting</li><li>Users Database Integraton</li><li>Chat Status Indicators</li><li>Moderator/Administrator Control</li></ul>and more.<br /><br />Information about this product is available <a href="http://www.flashcoms.com/community_chat.php" target=_blank rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><a href="http://www.flashcoms.com/community_chat.php?action=screenshots" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Screenshots</a><br /><a href="http://www.flashcoms.com/demo/community_chat/" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Demo</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1136046198240491482005-12-31T18:16:00.000+02:002007-04-29T12:31:22.480+02:00Internet Call Company to Sue Google for $5bn<span style="font-weight: bold;">Google</span> is being <span style="font-weight: bold;">sued</span> by a <span style="font-weight: bold;">small New York internet call company</span> that <span style="font-weight: bold;">claims to hold patents for the technology that enables voice calls to be made over the internet</span>. The New York-based Rates Technology said it would probably seek damages of about $5bn. It alleges that the internet search engine has infringed its patents with the recently launched <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Talk</span>.<br /><br /><span class="mainarttxt"> Jerry Weinberger, chief executive of Rates Technology Inc (RTI), said he was the inventor of software programming that allows telephone calls to be placed over the Internet.</span><span class="mainarttxt"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Weinberger alleged that Google has abused two patented RTI software programs in Google Talk, which enables users to talk through a computer headset or to instant message each other for free.</span></span> <p>RTI claims companies including <span style="font-weight: bold;">Microsoft</span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="mainarttxt">, Cisco, IBM, Yahoo</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and Lucent have made one-off payments for use of its patents</span> and that the firm is in similar talks with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Time Warner</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">eBay</span>. It is in legal action with others. Google (<span class="mainarttxt">Steve Langdon)</span> said the suit was without merit.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1135862401691119532005-12-29T15:06:00.000+02:002007-04-27T18:39:06.304+02:00Gaim - A multi-protocol IM client<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/images/gaim-logo.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 38px; height: 50px;" src="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/images/gaim-logo.png" alt="" border="0" /></a>As many people on the internet like applications like <a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com/2005/09/trillian-all-in-one-instant-messenger.html">Trillian</a> and <a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com/2005/11/im2-great-and-free-messenger.html">IM2</a>, there is also another very popular instant messaging client, called <a href="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/">Gaim</a>. It has everything you need and one of the best things is that it's open-source.<br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Gaim</span> is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for <span style="font-weight: bold;">Linux</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">BSD</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">MacOS X</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Windows</span>. It is compatible with <span style="font-weight: bold;">AIM</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">ICQ</span> (Oscar protocol), <span style="font-weight: bold;">MSN Messenger</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yahoo!</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">IRC</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jabber</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gadu-Gadu</span>, <acronym style="font-weight: bold;" title="Secure Internet Live Conferencing">SILC</acronym>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">GroupWise Messenger</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Zephyr</span> networks. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"> Gaim users <span style="font-weight: bold;">can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously</span>. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"> Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as <span style="font-weight: bold;">file transfer</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">away messages</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">typing notification</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">MSN window closing notification</span>. It also goes beyond that and provides <span style="font-weight: bold;">many unique features</span>. 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. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Gaim runs on a number of platforms</span>, including Windows, Linux, and <a href="http://qpe-gaim.sourceforge.net/" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Qtopia</a> (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq). </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"> Gaim integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3's system tray, as well as Windows's own system tray. This allows you to work with Gaim without requiring the buddy list window to be up at all times. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Download v1.5.0</a><br /><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235&package_id=253&release_id=378940" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Beta - Gaim 2.0.0beta1</a><br /><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gaim/gaim-2.0.0beta2.exe?download" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Beta - Gaim 2.0.0beta2</a><br /><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16266358.post-1135500558440452172005-12-25T10:43:00.000+02:002007-04-29T12:31:22.480+02:00Google Plans to Standardize Multimedia Instant Messaging<p>Earlier this week, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,123978,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp" target=_blank rel="nofollow">shared</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> its plans for the future unification of the instant messaging (IM) market</span>. The benevolent overlord of modern Internet innovation, Google has become a tremendous stabilizing force within the complex ecosystem of web-based services. When Google <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050824-5234.html" target=_blank rel="nofollow">released</a> their Jabber-based IM <a href="http://www.google.com/talk/" target=_blank rel="nofollow">application</a> earlier this year, they promised consumers that they would vigorously pursue protocol interoperability in order to facilitate communication between users of different IM systems. Since the birth of text-based Internet chat in the 1980s, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/reviews/apps/AIMalternatives.ars" target=_blank rel="nofollow">countless</a> IM protocols and applications have emerged to meet the rapidly growing demand for interactive text communication. AOL's ubiquitous AIM service is thought to have over 50 million active users, a number that continues to increase as more consumers take up the habit. </p><p>Google chose to use <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jabber's Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)</span> for its own <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Talk</span> application because <span style="font-weight: bold;">XMPP</span> is a well-documented open protocol fit for standardization and extension. The broad availability of XMPP support in open source communication applications ensures that users of all common platforms, including Linux and OS X, will be able to interact with Google Talk users. Working closely with the nonprofit Jabber Software Foundation (JSF), <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google plans to bring voice and video communication services to all XMPP-compliant IM utilities</span>. Described in a Jabber Enhancement Proposal, the new peer-to-peer voice and video standard is currently called Jingle. An open source implementation called <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/talk/index.html" target=_blank rel="nofollow">Libjingle</a> has already been released by Google under a BSD-style license. For those not in the know, BSD licenses are very permissive, facilitating commercial redistribution even in proprietary applications, which means that closed source IM applications like AOL's AIM client can take advantage of the code. </p><p>Google recently <a href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2005/10/14/1520" target=_blank rel="nofollow">hired</a> Sean Egan, one of the lead developers of a popular open source IM application called <a href="http://gaim.sourceforge.net/">Gaim</a>. Egan and other Gaim developers have already managed to integrate Google Talk's voice features into the Gaim 2.0 branch, which is scheduled for release next month. (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Interested users might want to take a look at the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=235&package_id=253&release_id=378940" target=_blank rel="nofollow">beta</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> release!</span>) </p><p>After Google's <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051221-5814.html">acquisition</a> of a five percent stake in AOL last week, both companies decided that it would be advantageous <span style="font-weight: bold;">to implement complete interoperability between Google Talk and AIM</span>. Now that Google has the uncontested champion of IM technologies on its buddy list, it has the leverage it needs to get other services to jump on the interoperability bandwagon.<br /></p><p>/<a href="http://arstechnica.com/">arstechnica</a>/<br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><p><a href="http://instantmsg.blogspot.com" style="background-color:#fff;color:#ccc;font-size:8px;text-decoration:none;">http://instantmsg.blogspot.com</a></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4