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Pidgin IM final beta out - final release due this week
Chat client Pidgin IM (formerly known as Gaim) version 2.00 beta 7 is out, with a final 2.0 release scheduled for later this week.The program performs very similarly to GAIM 2.00 beta 6, with some cosmetic changes, including a new Pidgin logo (which unsurprisingly looks like a pigeon). The redesign does include some under the hood changes as well, so the developers caution that this beta is actually less stable than earlier beta releases, and recommend backing up your Gaim directory before running Pidgin.
Some preferences may be lost, or buddy icons may not work, and some plugins may fail to work. In previous versions, you could easily tell whether your contacts were using AOL IM, MSN Messenger, IRC, or other chat protocols at a glance by looking at the color of their icons. Now you're presented with a green circle for each of your contacts. Hopefully this will be one of the items fixed before the final release.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Shunnabunich said 2:04PM on 5-01-2007
Oh God, I just realized we're probably going to have to deal with a whole new generation of kids growing up thinking "pigeon" is spelled "pidgin" because of this thing.
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Grammar freak said 4:15PM on 5-01-2007
I am starting to have a major problem with the gaim devs. They keep dropping the kind of features that make gaim better than trillian, aim, etc. And when they are confronted about it, instead of maybe adding the options back in (making it configurable) they get very belligerent and want to tell you that it's their way or the highway. I work for a software company and if I treated our customers that way I'd get canned pretty fast.
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