Pidgin, originally Gaim, was first created to mimic AOL instant messenger. Created by Mark Spencer, its development was also supported by a few of AOL’s tech staff. It wasn’t long after its creation that the protocols for other IM services gained support in Pidgin. Pidgin was at its creation, and remains to this day, an [...]

Often you will hear P2P users comment on how they don’t seem to get all the speed that they think they should be getting, or how they used to but things seemed to have slowed down to a crawl. There can be several reasons for this; in fact, the more time you spend on P2P [...]

Miranda is a multiplatform messenger client that is a freeware, open source program. Miranda allows a user to log onto one central program and chat with others on many different instant messenger services. This easy method keeps a user from having to log in and re-log out of this messenger or — worse — attempt [...]