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Posts tagged pidgin
Using Twitter and Facebook from Pidgin
Dec 24th
In the vast world of communication, instant messaging is a long-standing medium. Facebook has entered the scene relatively recently, as has Twitter. If you use these newer mediums of communication and you’re a Pidgin user then you may want to look at the Pidgin plugins for accessing them.
MyTraceroute
Dec 12th
Have you ever face the problem of frequent disconnection in a huge LAN say 4,5 routers between you have the internal gateway? (more…)
Devilspie: Easy workspace management
Dec 7th
At any single instance of time i have Following stuff opened: Terminator (don’t know what it is? check this article), Home Folder, SwiftFox (check this article if you don’t know what is swiftfox), Thunderbird, KeePassX, Opera, Twinkle, Gnote, Firefox(in wine, for some shockwave video lectures), Pidgin, skype, xchat, virtualbox, and probably a totem window as well.. (more…)
Replacing Pidgin with Empathy in Karmic
Oct 4th
I have been checking Karmic for some time and one thing that i found was that they replaced Pidgin with Empathy. Empathy is a new IM developed by GNU based on Telepathy Framework. Its a nice IM, no denying that. Since i read that ubuntu team is going for empathy i tried to switch to it but i never could accept this change. (more…)
Finch: Commandline Pidgin-like IM
Oct 4th
Do you like pidgin? Do you like commandline? What if i tell you that there is a IM which uses libpurple, is like pidgin but commandline? Cool, right? Well its finch. You can install it like:
apt-get install finch
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Gnome Do: Do it faster than before
Oct 3rd
I spend my day on laptop and thus hate to take my hands off keyboard for mouse or touchpad. I like launching and using programs from keyboard all the time. So i found Gnome Do which is a great tool, a lot of plugins to integrate into commonly used programs such as firefox, pidgin, evolution to increase productivity. There is also something like this in KDE, i think its called katapult. (more…)
