Pidgin
Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) program that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. You can talk to your friends using your Live Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, IRC and other accounts without the need to have lots of individual clients installed.
Today I also uninstalled mIRC (an IRC client) because I have no need for it anymore. Thanks to Pidgin (formerly named Gaim), I can now hang around on my favorite chat channels and get popup notifications when my nickname gets mentioned without needing an extra program to clutter up my system.
Pidgin is free software (GPL). For more information, visit the official website.
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Hm.. why isn’t it called Gaim anymore??
Always preferred it, cause it comes without the oodles and oodles of widgets and ads…
Only too bad you can’t see half of the people’s special animation thingamajigs…
It’s not called Gaim anymore because of a legal issue with AIM (too many matching characters I suppose). I also used Gaim already for quite a while, ever since MSN Messenger introduced animoticons. Weren’t these called ‘nudges’ initially? I’m especially surprised about the IRC features of Pidgin actually.