Digsby

[BeauJangles]

It's in private beta (you can find an invite code on Lifehacker).

I think it's one of the best pieces of software I've used - it centralizes all my IM and email accounts and even links into facebook / myspace. Very smooth interface. Too bad it isn't open-source 🙁

Anyone else have thoughts?

 

[mflacy]

LOVE IT! (It's public now, btw.)

I've got it logged into AIM, Google Talk, ICQ, a jabber account, Hotmail, Gmail, an IMAPed email account, Myspace, Facebook, my personal Twitter and my work Twitter.

 

[BlueWeasel]

I really like it, but the RAM usage is huge (around 100MB) on my system. I'm pretty sure the memory usage will decrease as the development progresses.

 

[Mojoed]

Bump for some more opinions/information.
Seems like an interesting program.

 

[George P Burdell]

Why is it free? What's the catch?

 

[Mojoed]

Haven't gotten around to using this yet. Has anything changed in 6 months? Looking for some opinions please!

 

[Ika]

Digsby's one of the best multi-IM programs I've found on Windows (I've tried Miranda, Pidgin, Trillian, AIM AdHack, AIMmutation, more that I can't remember).

I think it's still in beta, but it's been completely stable for however long I've used it (way back in April).

I've only noticed two real problems with it - one, it uses up a lot of system resources (although I believe they recently released an update that cut back resource usage by 75% :Q), and two, it sometimes kicks me out of a full-screen app (i.e. games) when I don't already have an IM window up.

My digsby is currently using 38mb of RAM. It has a lot of connectivity functionality (facebook, twitter, all the popular IM clients), too, most of which I don't use... but you can if you want to.

I also don't think it's as customizeable as some other programs (no plugins) but the built-in thematic customizations are pretty good.