An easy, convenient and cheap way of communicating with friends and family is instant messaging, whether you chatting one-on-one, or in a group. Unfortunately, as there are so many networks available, you may find yourself using different clients to communicate with different people. Before you begin installing different clients, there are multi-platform clients available which will enable you to use a single application to communicate with others, irrespective of network.

Pidgin 2.5.4 enables you to use your current IM contacts and chat across any platform to single users or groups, simultaneously. The application supports many popular features such as file transfer, away messages and typing notification amongst several unique options. This is an excellent IM client that works across almost any platform.

Pidgin 2.5.4 link.

14 Jan 2009