About Pidgin

I’m quite sure that most of you already had account on Yahoo, Google, MSN, AIM, ICQ, or another service provider that offered a lot of features for your social networking activity, especially for instant messaging. They should be already provide you with a client based software to connect on their network. Since you already had more than one protocol instant messaging service provider, you should think about a software that could handle all the connection to your network provider.

On this article, we’ll introduce you with Pidgin. That’s one of the client based software for instant messaging. It can handle most of the instant messaging service provider, such as: AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-gadu, ICQ, IRC, Google, MySpaceIM, XMPP, QQ, Simple, SILK, SameTime, and Yahoo. Instead, this software is provided a lot of features such as:

• User friendly instant messaging
• Could run on many different Operating System platform ( windows, linux, mac ).
• Open source and free to use it as you want ( you could get the free version at : Pidgin Portable. Since it’s a portable application, you had nothing to install on the local PC ).
• Easily add portable encryption plugins for secure, encrypted messaging.
• And many more.

We’ll discuss more about how to guide Pidgin instant messaging software for the next article. You should try this awesome software. Cheerss.

article reference : Pidgin Manual