digsby
 

Not sure how many of you all use multipile IM programs, or social networking sites and stuff, but I just found something new I thought I'd share for zee hell of it.

I've used Pidgin before to manage my few IM accounts, it's served me very well. A friend demo'd digsby to me tonight when I was at their computer though and it made me give it a shot.. I'm rather impressed.

http://www.digsby.com/screenshots.php

In a nutshell, you can plug in all of your IM accounts, e-mail accounts and even social networking sites like facebook, myspace, etc, if you use those. You get an awesome menu with a plethora of options and skins, take a look at the screenshots.

You can work with all the different websites from the software and even have popups for when your multi-taksing.. ie: http://img.digsby.com/screenshots/7_popups.png


It's in closed beta now (like these internet closed betas are hard to get into *rolleyes*), but just use the word megaleecher when you install it as the beta key and it'll work. Enjoy. ;)

Sounds rather useful.

I'd give it a try except for the fact that it's probably not really worth the time considering I'm going to be a freaking Mac user within 24 hours.

WOW, convert!!!

Ooh, good point. Thankfully they're not going to be stupid and make it Windows only or anything.

http://www.digsby.com/signup/maclinux/

I'll keep an eye on that and re-bump this if they get it out sometime soon for all our Mac users. ;)

:D

I had a choice between a Mac with the capability to still run a full-featured XP install or a Dell with Vista on which using XP would cripple half the Laptop's extra functionality.

Besides; my biggest gripe with Apple products was usually the price, but I'm getting my MBP for practically free :P

Oh, and I can't wait to get my quite clean, average sized hands on Logic Pro and Final Cut.

That is assuming, of course, that there isn't already a program that fills the role...

Which makes me think of a question to ask outside this thread.

Definitely looks like an exciting service. I signed up to have them let me know when it's available on the Mac.

The pop up for it reminds a lot of Apple fonts and designs.