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Digsby is creating waves. Syahid just wrote about this wonderful funky application, and the program is just great. There’s nothing ground breaking here, but the app is just awesome and works out of the box.

Ok, what is it you ask?

Well, Digsby is a multiprotocol instant messaging client. Not really, it can send you email notifications as well as Facebook updates from your friends. Kind of an multipurpose networking tool.

Digsby - First Impressions

I read a few reviews on this, but never really downloaded it. I was expecting it to be a program with bugs and issues. But I knew I was wrong when I downloaded the application and installed it. It was performing smooth, and I had no problems using it.

At around 15 MB, this tool is worth downloading and using. Indeed it is.

If you thought Pidgin sucks because of the interface, try Digsby. You’ve got a whole lot of skins. Use them. The notification pop ups look aesthetic and cool.

Configuring

Upon installation, you’ll be asked for the invite code, your email, password, etc.

Get registered, login. Then Add Accounts. From the window that appears, just add your Google Talk/Yahoo/AIM/ICQ/Jabber/MSN Instant Messaging accounts, Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL accounts. You can also make Digsby work with Facebook and MySpace.

Quite cool, see the functionality now!

Things Digsby Does

Notifications with a difference

You’ve got your accounts on, Digsby pops up notifications when you get a new email, chat message etc. All these can be customized to the utmost level. You can create popups for things like signing on and off, or even sound notifications. In Pidgin, you needed plugins to do some of these.

The notifications come with added functionality: You can directly use the the popup to type in your reply, need not necessarily open the minimized chat window to do the same. And that’s really brilliant. Here’s a screenshot:

Email Right from the chat window

Just a single click on the ‘Email’ button in the chat window, you can instantly see the compose box in the window itself (it doesn’t open up the web interface for composing)

You can send an email directly from the chat window. This saves you a lot of time.

+1 for Digsby.

Perform Actions on your Emails

As Syahid points out, it’s possible to make an email read/unread, mark it spam, delete it right from Digsby.

Chat History Logging - With great usability

Just have a look:

The chat histories are sorted by date, and you could look into chats for string. You need not waste time checking log files and stuff.

Lots More:

• One combined buddy list for all your AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber Accounts.
• Manage multiple conversations with tabbed conversation windows. You can drag + drop tabs out into their own windows for important conversations.
• Rename contacts with an alias so you don’t have to remember buddy names like “giantsfan123″.
• If one of your friends has more than one IM account you can combine them into a single merged contact to eliminate duplicate buddies.
• Send your friends SMS messages right from the IM window.
• The InfoBox lets you check everyone’s status message and profile just by moving your mouse down the list.
• Changing your status has never been easier - just one click right on the buddy list!
• Multitask while you chat. Minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM’s. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing.
• Log conversation history and find the information you need in our search enabled log viewer.

And so much more.

Invite Code, Download

You can download Digsby Application from here.

I haven’t approached them to offer an invite code for Killer Tech Tips readers, but you could use the invite code offered to Syahid while signing up during installation. It’s techmalaya.

What I’d love to see

• Support for more social networks like Orkut, etc
• Support for may be even Digg
• An Inbuilt Twitter Client

May I’m demanding too much, but I know the Digsby developers would be responding to this.

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