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Forget about opening multiple windows on the desktop to be able to discuss with contacts from Yahoo Messenger, MSN, Google Talk with Digsby, a multi-protocol instant messaging software.
Digsby is an all-in-one email software that allows to both manage the email accounts (POP3, IMAP, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and AOL / AIM), the instant messaging (MSN, Yahoo, ICQ , Google Talk, etc..) and Facebook, MySpace and Twitter profiles. Using a tabbed window, it allows you to open multiple conversations at once.
With a user-friendly and customizable interface user can chat with his favorite contacts but also consult wink emails, alerts and events in the social network (invitations, updates, etc..). In addition, Digsby offers a widget, which, once installed on a website, the owner can communicate directly with his visitors.
It allows to merge different IM addresses all the contacts so user do not have only one contact per individual.
For this part, it allows user to be alerted to the arrival of an email (it even shows a preview) on any of his accounts and can be accessed by clicking Digsby username you automatically.
The application also allows user to manage his status on different social networks, be warned of the arrival of requests or messages and even monitor the activity of his friends and update their spaces.
This software offers many customization options, allowing to change the theme of the interface, the skin, configure the notification system to change the display of contacts and more.
# Major Changes:
* Possibly fixed a crash when returning from hibernate
* Possibly fixed a bug that caused AIM to disconnect a lot while sending IMs
* Potential crash fix
# Bug Fixes:
* Retweeting special characters like â€Â<†no longer replaces it with â€Â<â€Â
* Fixed a bug that caused the buddy list to go blank and not show buddies
* Fixed a bug that caused the “New Group†dialog in Twitter to not show everyone you follow
* Fixed a bug that caused Digsby to miss some tweets if you sent a Tweet between update checks
* Fixed a bug that caused Achievements to increment twice as fast if you disconnect/reconnect to the Digsby servers due to network hiccup or hibernate
* Fixed a bug that caused Facebook to pop up a login screen after coming back from hibernate with a dead network instead of failing to connect and letting you retry
* Fixed a CPU spin related to local preferences
* Fixed a bug that caused “Facebook User†to be linked even though we have no data about who made that comment
* Fixed a bug that caused the spell check dotted line to show in the wrong place for some fonts
* Fixed a bug that caused auto-update to not work for some people in corporate environments where digsby.com is blocked
* Fixed a bug that caused Facebook to get stuck on login when it should have gone to “Failed to Connectâ€Â
* Fixes for sending e-mail with Hotmail accounts
* A fix for some Hotmail accounts that were unable to connect
* Selecting “never†for Twitter updates should now work
* You can now log into Twitter via your email address
# Enhancements:
* You can right click on a button in the top bar of the Twitter window and mark all as read in that view
* Digsby will now know your last sent tweet even if it was sent from another client
* Clicking “Reply†or “Retweet†in a popup notification marks that tweet as read, along with clicking next or right clicking to dismiss
* Changed default value for how often to check for directs from 10 minutes to 5 now that Twitter increased the API rate limit
* Added a menu item to the “140†drop down menu in the main twitter window to keep on top of other applications
* You can zoom in/out using Ctrl +/- in the Twitter window or using Ctrl + Mouse wheel
* A new setting for the update frequency for Twitter searches
* An “Update Now†menu entry for Twitter
* A new setting for the Twitter timeline to be “always on topâ€Â
* Interacting with Twitter popups will now mark those tweets as “readâ€Â