Seesmic for Windows Preview – Seesmic Desktop, Rewritten in Native Desktop Code

Seesmic for Windows Preview (Windows, Freeware) is a preview version of a feature-rich native app, Seesmic for Windows combines the best features from of our ever-popular social application and provides it to you in a Windows environment.

“… we decided to entirely re-write Seesmic Desktop in native Windows code, building a plugin architecture in a Twitter client was just impossible, right now, with Adobe Air. … We are hoping that it becomes a development platform such as Firefox and its very successful plugins.” [blog.seesmic.com]

Features:

• Right Click Features - For additional functions, simply right-click a message to add users to your own userlists, send replies and direct messages and retweet.
• Better performance - As a native Windows client application, we can take advantage of performance of handling in a Windows environment, while still maintaining fully functional features to manage your stream.
• Integrated Image and URL Shortening Services - Seesmic for Windows has also integrated several tools and services to enable your images and urls. Make an impact on others by easily sharing links, images and messages. Pass along other information that will benefit your friends and followers.
• Doing Our Best to Listen, Learn and Adapt - As a preview version, we continue to listen to your thoughts and feedback on this preview version of Seesmic for Windows and will do our best to release as often as possible.
• Full panel Twitter user profile - View a user's profile page, as well as the statistics of the user's friends and followers in a separate side panel.

Will there be a Linux and/or Mac version? Only time will tell.

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TweetDeck 0.32.0 – Your Personal Browser for Staying in Touch

TweetDeck 0.32.0 (Windows/Linux, Freeware, 2.4MB) is your personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and more.

Needs Adobe AIR.

Changes:

• LinkedIn integration - Add a linkedIn column to see updates from your network, send status updates and comment on updates from your contacts
• Twitter List support - Create & manage Twitter Lists within TweetDeck. Follow & unfollow Lists, Create List columns and even get suggested members based on your List title
• Geo-location support - Show an inline map for tweets that contain location data using the new Twitter geo-location setting
• Twitter Retweet support - Flexibility to perform both traditional retweets with edits, or the new-style retweets, with both types shown in your columns
• New improved Add Column screen - Old toolbar icons and drop down menus replaced by slick new Add Column screen
• And many more smaller updates and fixes

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Pidgin Portable 2.6.4 – Open Source Multi-Network IM Client

Pidgin Portable 2.6.4 (Windows, Open Source, 14MB) is a versatile instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC.

Changes:

• updates Pidgin to 2.6.4 (change log)
• has an improved installer which preserves plugins like the Pidgin Facebook and Skype plugins.

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Pidgin Portable 2.6.3 – Open Source Multi-Network IM Messenger Client

Pidgin Portable 2.6.3 (Windows, Open Source, 14MB) is a versatile instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC.

Changes:

• Fix a crash when performing DNS queries on Unixes that use the blocking DNS lookups.
• Fix a crash when some clients send contacts in a format we don't understand.
• Fix blocking and other privacy lists.

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Pidgin Portable 2.5.8

Pidgin Portable 2.5.8 (Windows, Open Source, 14MB) is the versatile Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC.

Changes:

• ICQ
  • Fix misparsing a web message as an SMS message. (Yuriy Kaminskiy)

• MSN
  • Increase NS command history size to prevent crashes on buddy lists that have a lot of buddies on other networks like Yahoo!

• MySpace
  • Accounts with empty buddy lists are now properly marked as connected.
  • Fix receiving messages from users of MySpace IM's web client.

• Yahoo
  • Fixed phantom online buddies. They should now properly disappear when signing out.
  • Fixed the crashes some users were seeing with cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com in 2.5.7.
  • Fixed compiling on systems with glib 2.4.x or older.
  • Fixed an issue with file transfers. This may not resolve all issues, but it should resolve at least some of the most common ones.
  • The pager server will automatically update to scsa.msg.yahoo.com if the user empties the field or if it is scs.msg.yahoo.com. This should ease the pain of transition to the new login method.

• XMPP
  • Fix an incompatibility betweeen Prosody and libpurple clients.

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Miranda IM Portable 0.8.1 – Minimalist Multi-Protocol IM Client

Miranda IM Portable 0.8.1 (Windows, Open Source, 3MB) is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows, in portable format, which uses very little memory and supports ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, IRC and more.

Changes:

• Improve account renaming inside of the account manager
• Notification if missing messaging plugin
• Improved upgrade procedure when using older contact list and messaging plugins
• Network list in options wasn’t sorted
• Fixed missing icon/menu issues
• Fixed crash in options on XP pre SP2
• Fixed errors loading dlls on wrong OS
• Fixed drawing background in options search
• Fixed account removal handling
• Fixed hotkey issue with some MS keyboards
• Fixed possible crash with event data
• AIM: Fixed issue with multiple connection requests
• AIM: Fixed issue setting AIM profile
• ICQ: Fixed AIM away message handling (caused online status to be seen as away in some clients)
• IRC: Possible crash on specific alias
• MSN: Fixed renaming nickname from options
• MSN: Fixed Offline messaging reception from Beejive client
• Yahoo: Show download progress properly
• Yahoo: Cancel out in the middle of file receive.
• Yahoo: Main menu fixes

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Pidgin 2.5.7 – Full Featured Multi-Network Chat Program

Pidgin 2.5.7 (Windows, Open Source, 13.7MB) [alt DL] is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up.
• Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per connection.
• Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.
• When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don't get network ID's for them.

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Miranda IM Portable 0.7.19 Revision 2 – Multi Protocol IM Client

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.19 Revision 2 (Windows, Open Source, 2MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.

Changes:

• updates Miranda IM to 0.7.19
• has an improved installer
• and adds Windows 7 support.

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Miranda IM Portable 0.7.17 – Open Source Minimalist Style Multi-Protocol IM Client

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.17 (Windows, Open Source, 2.1MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.

Changes: Windows compatibility improvements.

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Pidgin 2.5.5 – Multi Protocol Instant Messaging Client

Pidgin 2.5.5 (Windows, Open Source, 13.7MB) [alt DL] is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Fix a crash when removing an account with an unknown protocol id.
• Beta support for SSL connections for AIM and ICQ accounts. To enable, check the "Use SSL" option from the Advanced tab when editing your AIM or ICQ account.
• Fix a memory leak in SILC.
• Fix some string handling in the SIMPLE prpl, which fixes some buddy name handling and other issues.
• Implement support for resolving DNS via the SOCKS4 proxy (SOCKS4a).
• ICQ:
• Fix retrieval of status messages from users of ICQ 6.x, Miranda, and other libpurple clients.
• Change client ID to match ICQ Basic 14.34.3096. This fixes publishing of buddy icons and available messages.
• Properly publish status messages for statuses other than Available. ICQ 6.x users can now see these status messages.
• Fix receipt of messages from the mobile client Slick.
• MSN:
• Fix transfer of buddy icons, custom smileys, and files from the latest Windows Live Messenger 9 official client.
• Large (multi-part) messages are now correctly re-combined.
• Federated/Yahoo! buddies should now stop creating sync issues at every signin. You may need to remove duplicates in the Address Book.
• Messages from Yahoo! buddies are no longer silently dropped.
• We now save and use the CacheKey for ABCH SOAP requests.
• Don't try to parse Personal Status Messages or Current Media if they don't exist.
• Convert from ISO-8859-1 encoding to UTF-8 when no charset is specified
  on incoming messages. This should fix some issues with messages from
  older clients.
• Force sending the font "Segoe UI" if outgoing formatting doesn't specify
  a font already.
• Queue callbacks when token updates are in progress to prevent two token update attempts from trampling each other.
• Fixed a crash on Windows when removing a buddy's alias.
• Update the Address Book when buddies' friendly names change. This prevents seeing an outdated alias or not seeing an alias at all for buddies who are offline when you sign in.
• Update tokens for FindMembership and ABFindAll SOAP requests.
• We no longer try to send empty messages. This could happen when a message contained only formatting and that formatting was not supported on MSN.
• Buddies on both the Allow and Block list are now automatically removed from the Allow list. Users with this problem will now no longer receive an ADL 241 error. The problematic buddy should now appear on the buddy list and can be removed or unblocked as desired.

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Miranda IM Portable 0.7.15 – Portable Multi Protocol IM Client

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.15 (Windows, Open Source, 2.1MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.

Changes:

• Windows compatibility improvements
• Registry key no longer written on launch of Miranda IM
• Improved keyboard support in import dialog
• Improved hotkey support in delete contact dialog
• Fixed issue with failed searches
• has an updated installer

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Xfire 1.104 – IM for Gamers

Xfire 1.104 (Windows, Freeware, 5.9MB) [alt DL] is the instant messenger for gamers. See when your friends are playing online games; See what game they are playing; See where they are playing; and join their game with just one click. Plus, unlike existing Instant Messengers, this one lets you receive IM's without disrupting your game.

Changes:

• Added tabbed browsing to the web browser in Xfire In-Game. Hit Scroll Lock + W while playing any of dozens of games to use it
• Added new default sound pack
• Fixed problem with saving the window location of Xfire on multi-monitor computers
• Added the ability to capture sound in Vista using the Xfire Video Capture system (while playing a game press Scroll Lock + V)
• Fixed problem with Call of Duty: World at War server info
• New games supported

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Miranda IM Portable 0.7.14

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.14 (Windows, Open Source, 2.1MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.

Changes:

• updates Miranda IM to 0.7.14
• has an updated launcher and installer

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Pidgin 2.5.4 – All-In-One IM Client

Pidgin 2.5.4 (Windows, Open Source, 12.4MB) [alt DL] is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu all at once. It is not endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, or MSN.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• Fix the "Hang on Exit" issue that a number of users encountered.
• Updated GTK+ to 2.14.6
• libpurple
  • Fix a connection timeout with empty Gadu-Gady buddy lists.
  • Don't ignore namespace information when parsing XMPP data.
  • Fix a crash that occurred when retrieving certain Offline Messages on MSN.
  • Extended purple-url-handler to handle "gtalk" URI's.
  • Fix the hang on exit in Network Location Awareness for Windows XP and Windows Vista.
• MSN
  • Change Contact Server to temporarily fix connection problems.
• XMPP
  • Support for XEP-0191 blocking.
  • Don't put SASL PLAIN or IQ Auth passwords in debug logs.
  • Fix removal of avatars (both PEP and vCard), we weren't removing them correctly before.

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Pidgin 2.5.3 - Multi-protocol Instant Messaging Client

Pidgin 2.5.3 (Windows, Open Source, 13.1MB) [alt DL] is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.

Also available for Linux.

Changes:

• The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer prints duplicate notifications when the same buddy is in multiple groups.
• The Buddy State Notification plugin no longer turns JID's, MSN Passport ID's, etc. into links.
• purple-remote now has a "getstatusmessage" command to retrieve the text of the current status message.
• Various fixes to the nullprpl.
• Fix a crash when accessing the roomlist for an account that's not connected.
• Fix a crash in purple_accounts_delete that happens when this function is called before the buddy list is initialized.
• Fix use of av_len in perl bindings to fix some off-by-one bugs
• On ICQ, advertise the ICQ 6 typing capability. This should fix the reports of typing notifications not working with third-party clients.
• Many QQ fixes and improvements, including the ability to connect using QQ2008 protocol and sending/receiving of long messages. The recommended version to use is still QQ2005.
• Fix a crash with DNS SRV lookups.
• Fix a crash caused by authorization requests.
• And more fixes for Gadu-Gadu, MSN, MySpace, Sametime, XMPP, Yahoo

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Xfire 1.102 – IM for Gamers

Xfire 1.102 (Windows, Freeware, 5.7MB) [alt DL] is the instant messenger for gamers. See when your friends are playing online games; See what game they are playing; See where they are playing; and join their game with just one click. Plus, unlike existing Instant Messengers, this one lets you receive IM's without disrupting your game.

Changes:

• Long-time users running the Xfire skin will be switched to the Shadow skin, in the old-colors Xfire theme, during this update. You may switch back if you so choose
• Added the ability to change sounds through sound packs, which are zip files containing .wav files
• Improved server information for Call of Duty: World at War
• The Xfire In-Game web browser is now available in *beta* quality in Guild Wars, Dawn of War: Soulstorm, and Unreal Tournament 2004
• Live Video broadcasts now let you chat with the broadcaster directly from the broadcast web page
• New games supported

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HydraIRC 0.3.165 – Free IRC Client

HydraIRC 0.3.165 (Windows, Freeware, 1MB) [alt DL] is an IRC Client written in C++ using such modern tools as Visual Studio 7 and WTL/ATL for a super fast, streamlined and efficient program.

Also available in Zip format.

Change: Fixed remote DoS exploit in the parsing code for long irc:// urls when hydrairc's url handler is enabled.

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Xfire 1.101 – Instant Messenger for Gamers

Xfire 1.101 (Windows, Freeware, 5.6MB) [alt DL] is the instant messenger for gamers. See when your friends are playing online games; See what game they are playing; See where they are playing; and join their game with just one click. Plus, unlike existing Instant Messengers, this one lets you receive IM's without disrupting your game.

Changes:

• Added a new theme to the Shadow skin to match the old default skin's colors
• Added a web search box to the bottom of the main window infoview
• Added game server info to Call of Duty: World at War
• Further improvements to the live video system will launch on the web site during the first week of December
• New games supported

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Miranda IM Portable 0.7.13

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.13 (Windows, Open Source, 2.1MB) is the popular Miranda IM packaged as a portable app, so you can take your instant messaging client on the go.

Change: updates Miranda IM core app to 0.7.13.

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Miranda IM 0.7.13 – Small and Fast Multi Protocol Instant Messenger Client

Miranda IM 0.7.13 (Windows, Open Source, 1.5MB) [alt DL] is a multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast.

Changes:

• Enhancements:
  • Installer remembers install options for upgrades
• Bugfixes:
  • Update Help/Support link
  • Jabber: Don't remove self contact from contact list if still in roster
  • Jabber: Fixed timezone conversion issue

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