| Best Free Chat Clients |
 So, eMail is too slow for you? Just have a simple question and need a speedy answer? Or feeling lonely and simply want to talk? But picking up a phone is too much agro? OK, then chat is for you.For the sake of accuracy: originally ‘chat’, ‘online-chat’, referred to sites in the WWW where you go to meet people in the internet in so called ‘chat rooms’. You visit such a place, log in and ‘informally converse’, chat that is, with those also online. You communicate by text messages that can be read by all those logged in. There are many places for many interests and people. Nowadays ‘chat’ is also used for ‘Instant Messaging (IM)’. The difference to the ‘original’ is when you’re visiting a ‘chat room’; you’re talking to many people at the same time, whereas when using an Instant Messenger you directly choose interlocutor(s). Pidgin Formerly known as GAIM, Pidgin is an open source Instant Messaging (IM) client. It handles the usual protocols: Bonjour (Apple's implementation of Zeroconf), Gadu-Gadu, Internet Relay Chat, Lotus Sametime, MySpaceIM, MSN Messenger, Novell GroupWise, OSCAR (AIM/ICQ/.Mac), QQ, SIMPLE, SILC, XMPP (Jabber, Google Talk), Yahoo! , Zephyr. You can log in to various accounts on many different networks at the same time, and of course sign in to chat rooms. Thus you do not have to install a client for each network and people can reach you from everywhere. Also you can customize it with numerous plug-ins.
Miranda IMOpen source software, supports AIM, Gadu-Gadu, IAX, Exchange, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN, Netsend, Tlen, Yahoo. So you might consider yourself connected. It is software for Windows only but needs hardly any resources and can also be installed on a thumb drive. Also customizable with many add-ons, and of course skins to change the looks.
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| Last Updated ( Montag, 19 Januar 2009 ) | |||||||||
