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Pidgin: IM Superstar

You have to stay connected. This is probably the single statement agreed upon globally. Keep up with what your friends are doing on social networks, crowd-source new concepts, communicate in more diverse and feature-rich ways. Pidgin is a great tool for this always-connected world we are living in, because it enables...

31 August 2009
05:23 GMT

Pidgin Vulnerability Fixed with Latest Releases

CORESecurity recently discovered and quietly informed Pidgin developers of a security vulnerability inside the main Pidgin core library that would have permitted third parties to remotely execute malware on a computer. Through the latest releases of the Pidgin instant messaging software, the vulnerability was success...

19 August 2009
10:01 GMT

Pidgin 2.6.0 Has Voice and Video Support

Pidgin users have a lot of things to be happy about with the release of the 2.6.0 version of their favorite instant messaging application, announced this morning by John Bailey. Thanks to the hard work of developers and contributors, the new release has a plethora of new features, about 221 bug fixes, all listed in a...

19 August 2009
03:33 GMT

How to: Fix Yahoo Problem in Pidgin

Two days ago, Yahoo! Inc. did something to its messenger servers, something that practically blocked all the Linux IM clients, such as Pidgin, Kopete, Empathy or GyachI. While many of us thought it might be an ISP issue, some very smart people found out the truth: Yahoo! changed the login method! However, at this mom...

21 June 2009
13:15 GMT

Best 5 Jabber Clients for Windows in Pictures

Jabber has millions of fans all over the world and since it's a free and open protocol, lots of companies and individual users has already adopted it. There are numerous servers out there and a lot of applications which could let users connect to them but, at this time, only a number of small programs managed to...

27 May 2008
11:30 GMT

Simple Tip: How to Use Pidgin Instead Of Google Talk

Google Talk is a simple instant messaging client which was powered by the Mountain View company in order to allow the consumers to communicate on the Internet with ease. At this time, Google Talk didn't manage to reach an impressive audience as the leadership of the category is still owned by Yahoo Messenger. Ma...

3 October 2007
15:11 GMT

Gaim Is Dead. Long Live Pidgin

As I was waiting for the final release of Gaim (2.0.0), I saw some news on the Gaim's RSS a couple of weeks ago and I've rushed in to see what's new in the Gaim's world (maybe an Easter present?). But I was really disappointed to see that Gaim will no longer exist, starting with 6th April. Hold o...

30 April 2007
08:04 GMT


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