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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
* Group Chat: The long awaited group chat support is finally here! You can create or join chat rooms on AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, and Jabber. Just click the room list button on the top right corner of the IM window and invite others to the chat. You can also create rooms via the menu: Digsby > New Group Chat.
* LinkedIn: We're introducing a completely redesigned LinkedIn implementation powered by their new API. You can now do all the good stuff you already do with your other social networks like comment on posts, like/dislike items, etc.
* MySpace Like/Dislike: We added Like + Dislike support to MySpace newsfeed items. Since their API doesn't currently support this capability, the link acts as a shortcut for posting a “Like!†or “Dislike!†comment on the thread.
# Bug Fixes
* Fixed a bug that caused newlines to not send correctly over Gtalk
* Fixed a bug that preventing you from removing buddies from your AIM block list
* Fixed a bug that caused HTML to render sometimes when pasted into the comment field of the infobox
* Fixed a bug that caused Digsby to show AIM groups which can't be deleted if you ever linked your AIM account to Facebook
* Fixed a bug that caused groups to appear within groups when ICQ sent corrupt buddy list data
* Fixed a bug that caused messages which start with a newline to get formatted incorrectly over MSN
* Fixed a bug that prevented some unicode words from being saved to the spell check dictionary
* Fixed a bug that caused outgoing IMs to show HTML in our popup windows
* Fixed a bug that caused the input language to change when clearing the input box
* Fixed a bug that caused the input box in popup notifications to use black font on black background
* Fixed a bug with handling errors from the Facebook servers when retrieving comments
* Fixed a bug that caused your user ID to show instead of your name in Facebook chats
* Fixed a bug that caused URLs with brackets to not get linkified properly
* Fixed a bug that caused unicode to render incorrectly for IMs sent to Trillian users
* Fixed a bug that caused the mouse to sometimes get stuck behind the window when opening a combobox
* Fixed a bug that caused HTML to show in the IM window when chatting with eBuddy or ICQ 7.2 users
# Enhancements
* Optimized when and how often to request buddy icons for Facebook buddies
* Fixed a few small memory leaks
* Added email notification support for Google Apps accounts which have been migrated to function as “full Google Accountsâ€
* When you delete messages in Yahoo Mail, they will now be moved into the trash folder instead of disappearing forever
* Updated the version of the Yahoo Messenger protocol we use
* We now use Twitter server time instead of your local machine so login doesn't fail if your clock is set incorrectly
* A few small Facebook newsfeed enhancements (ie: comment caching, spinner while retrieving, etc.)
* Created a more robust Twitter login sequence for handling errors on their end