Pidgin is a FREE & OPEN SOURCE Instant Message Manager That Connects You to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, and Many More
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Pidgin (formerly,Gaim) is the Free & Open Source solution to having friends, family, and colleagues on different IM chat networks. When your Mom is on AOL, and your best mate is living in Australia and using MSN and and your employer forces you to use Yahoo!, your only real solution is Pidgin. Simply open up Pidgin, connect to all of your IM accounts, and chat away on all at the same time.
Pidgin supports many features of these chat networks, such as file transfers, away messages, spell checker, buddy icons, custom smilies, and typing notifications. Numerous plugins also extend Pidgin’s functionality above and beyond the standard features. For a list of all plugins, please click here.
Supported IM Networks:
| AIM | Bonjour | Gadu-Gadu |
| Google Talk | Groupwise | ICQ |
| IRC | MSN | MySpaceIM |
| SILC | SIMPLE | |
| Sametime | XMPP | Yahoo! |
| Zephyr |
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