Filed under: Internet, Windows
Digsby chat client updated, CPU use reduced by 50%
by Brad Linder Jun 24th 2009 at 2:57PM
Multi-protocol chat client Digsby received a major update today, with over 100 bug fixes and new features. At the top of the list, the new version should use about 50% less CPU cycles than previous builds. Digsby is a chat client that lets you chat with contacts whether they're using AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, or Facebook Chat. It also lets you read and write updates for social networking sites including Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn.
Here are a few other new features:
- Search your buddy list by hitting Ctrl+F
- Improved file transfer reliability for AIM, ICQ, and MSN
- Support for entering your status on MySpace
- Added support for invisible mode on Gtalk
- New infobox based on WebKit
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, ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
turu said 3:43PM on 6-24-2009
These kind of commercial multi im clients always ask users to make one more new account for using their service. It makes using products from them as POINTLESS. Beside of this, Dicksby asks you to allow their facebook apps if you want to use their facebook integrated service, and it behaves like adware...same things can be said to the terriblelan (is this correct their name ? I forgot ).
I'll stick with Pidgin+facebook plugin. don't know why there are no plugin for Miranda though.
Reply
Nasu said 4:09PM on 6-24-2009
Turu, Digsby asks you to create an account for an actual purpose. It's so that regardless of where you are, for example at a friends and download Digsby, you can log in to one account and it loads up your aim, email, yim, msn, facebook notifications, and everything else without you sitting there typing in logins. It's to make it easier when you're not at your main computer. The passwords are for accounts are stored on an encrypted server and transferred over an encrypted connection and the digsby staff has no way to actually read the password to your accounts because of how the clients are setup. Go lurk their forum a bit and look into it, it really is secure as they say it is.
The facebook app is just a widget, you can put on any site I might add, and with it anyone on that website can send you an IM if they don't have a messenger or know your screen names. The widget doesn't give out your screen name so if you get spam messages from it off a web page you just delete it from your digsby client under widgets. That simple. You can remove the widget on the facebook page and still use their facebook notifications too. As I currently don't have one on my facebook but still get updates without any problems.
The adware argument is kind of null since, it's free like daemon tools lite for example, they have a few ads on install that are optional, don't want them? Simply don't install them. That easy. If my mother who's 54 and has trouble just uploading her resume to monster can figure it out then I'm sure it's just a matter of reading what's on the screen. Also, they have to have a way to generate some sort of revenue for their free client.
It's a nice piece of software and I'll admit it's not really for everyone but before you try to knock it, at the very least, read up more about it.
Reply
Sam Jordan said 6:11PM on 6-24-2009
The install process put me off Digsby, lots of ads and seems to take forever, plus it adds itself to your Twitter etc.
Don't need that.
Reply
ryancpratt said 6:11PM on 6-24-2009
They've got to keep it free somehow, and if an installer is the only place I have to see ads then I can completely deal with that. Unlike trillian astra where you have to stare at annoying adds in your conversations windows. I used to use digsby when it was faster and used less memory, but it's gotten a little more bulky since I last tried it. I switched to pidgin and am pretty content.
Sam Jordan said 6:35PM on 6-24-2009
Yeah, you're right, I guess we get used to Google's give it away free model.
sitruc said 11:42PM on 6-25-2009
Google's text ads are still ads.
Broken Arrow said 3:51PM on 7-10-2009
This IM is awsome but I dumped it a couple of months ago as it mingled up my 2 Yahoo account contacts and sent out messages to one of my contatcs from the identity that it was not suppose to do. The same thing happened with Trillian years ago that I also dumped due to the same reason.
Reply