Chat Application

raja53352 said:
Hi
Pls advise me about "Jabber Chatting Application".How can i dowbload and install to my windows xp system
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Hi Raja,

An all purpose chat application is Pidgin which also supports the Jabber protocol apart from excellent support for MSN, Yahoo! and GTalk. Another client that is widely used in enterprises is Spark.

You'll need to have a Jabber server to connect to. A quick search on google will help you locate them. In case you're interested in setting up a Jabber server of your own, Openfire is the easiest to configure and deploy.

More clients can be found on the jabber website although not all of them will work on Windows XP.
HTH

viridian
 
[This reply really ought to be a thread-starter of it's own in this forum..]

Have you folks checked out Digsby? It's easily the GRAND-DADDY of all chat applications! Multi-protocol, slick and overall just awesome.. Waaaay better than Gaim/Pidgin imo..and definitely kicks Miranda/Trillian butt any day..

It even featured as Lifehacker's Best IM Tool!
 
shr1k said:
Have you folks checked out Digsby? It's easily the GRAND-DADDY of all chat applications! Multi-protocol, slick and overall just awesome.. Waaaay better than Gaim/Pidgin imo..and definitely kicks Miranda/Trillian butt any day.
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Miranda & the others maybe but Trillian...the only paid for of the lot.

Have you used trill for any length of time ?

Your statement would be more meaningful if you did.

some comments on that site

I tried Digsby multiple times. It LOOKS pretty, but I want good functionality with minimal performance impact on my system - so I keep on going back to Pidgin. It does what it does very well, is very small on resource requirements (Digsby just takes up way too much CPU), and its interface is plenty fast (I'm mister impatient). Digsby's UI responsiveness was also noticeably slower. I do wish Pidgin would someday support the Social Networks like Digsby, but it's not worth slowing down my PC more than it already is.
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If Digsby was a standalone app and didnt need their servers, I would probably like it, but I voted for Pidgin. It wouldnt connect thru a proxy for me either.
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Must try this Digsby thing. Pidgin is generally my client of choice but it does suffer from two main shortcomings
1. No voice support for GTalk (i.e. no libjingle support). As strange as it is, the lead developer is a Google employee and yet the client is crippled.
2. No XMPP search. Maybe I couldn't figure this out or it doesn't exist at all. It is the nicest feature to have for use in an enterprise.

Owing to 2, I'm stuck with using Spark for IM at work.

Does TE have an XMPP server? (I'm new here, just wondering). It would be nifty, wouldn't it?
 
blr_p said:
Have you used trill for any length of time ?

Your statement would be more meaningful if you did.
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Easy there, cowboy..I have used Trillian, and its memory footprint is pretty much the same as Digsby's, and (like you said) it's paid for. For Jabber/XMPP.

Digsby may not be as nimble as Pidgin, but is very very functional (sync preferences across machines) and looks good too..

Have *you* used Digsby?
 
Not yet but this thread is timely as trill 2.0 (never needed anything later) is recently giving probs connecting to yahoo.

Trill takes up 14MB in RAM, if digsby is the same then i won't notice the diff.
As indicated in Proc Explorer under 'Private Bytes'

Reason for my tone is these free apps especially in a fast moving space like IM are always laggin behind the paid for ones or even the official ones but those are not an option if one has friends on all of these networks. In any case the only thing i need is text chat no need for sound,video or any other bells & whistles, the offical client is there for that :)

If you are a 3rd party, IM companies can change protocols at the drop of a hat and then you are sol.

I'll give both pidgin & Digsby a shot and see how it goes. The hard part will be converting contact chat histories (all in txt) to either of them from trill, i usually log my chats for future reference, and was very happy with what plugins trill offered. Usually opening any IM window to a contact displays at least the last 10 lines of previous conversation along with time stamps. Actually this was one of the first things it took for me to dump the official clients.
 
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