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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: March 20, 2008
- Total Downloads: 231,151
- Downloads last week: 1,043
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 129 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Digsby will easily be the instant messaging freeware of choice for the super social set. In addition to supporting the major IM networks--Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber--Digsby also pulls in Web mail feeds, as well as access to MySpace, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. Updating Twitter is a breeze from the application's main interface, though users wishing to do anything more than read Facebook and MySpace news feeds will be redirected to their online accounts.
Users can initiate text, video, and audio chat from the conversation window, and transfer files, send SMS, and compose e-mail. The notification pop-ups for every activity can get distracting, though a deep preference options control nearly every aspect of the display, including a wide variety of skins. Digsby is off to a strong start and can only get better from here. The question is if the other multiprotocol IM apps will catch up or offer something equally new and exciting.
Publisher's description
From dotSyntax :Digsby is a multiprotocol IM client, email notification tool, and social networking tool that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list, lets you read and delete email easily, and keeps you up-to-date of your social networking accounts.
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User reviews of Digsby beta
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 129 votes
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Version: Digsby beta
"I give it props for the functionality."
Pros: It listed a lot of cool features including mail notifications, and it's multi-protocol, who would want it?
Cons: I didn't even get to connect. I made a username and password and then after about 7MB of updates, it said failed to connect. I tried again, and it said it again. A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT. I was really looking forward to using this program and it let me down. It's also not very light. Considering Pidgin is already almost 30MB, if this program goes any heavier, it's just going to be like Pidgin, overloaded, and didn't even seem like it added new features. Of course I couldn't even judge and compare how much RAM it used, and there's no uninstall on add/remove programs. This program must be joking me? It's not even good as a beta. I hope they make drastic changes to improve it.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby beta
"Greates Instant Messenger Ever"
Pros: what it has over everyone else
- social networking
- pop email
- auto updating
- constant updates and new features
- free skins and themes
- toasties that you can actually type in to respond
Cons: lacks
- irc
- orginal IM emoticons
the last one is totally absurd because no universal messenger has the original emoticons. for that you need the adware driven original messengers like aim and windows live messengers.
all and all this is by far the best universal messenger and anyone who tells you otherwise is nit picking and expects everything. digsby has the most features of all messengers. that makes it by far the best specially when a lot of the others you have to install stuff to get the features digsby already has or have to pay for addition features or deal with adware. either accept limititions, pay for IM or deal with ads if you dont want an IM with all that stuff for free, but dont give it a bad grade cause it doesnt have a feature u want
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Version: Digsby beta
"All-in-one app is just what everybody was looking for"
Pros: Manages all IMs. Groups the same user from different systems into the same name, so you don't have "Joe" in five different places. Easily shows your inboxes, including from a SMTP. Nice interface ... attractive. Customizable.
Cons: Resource hog.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby beta
Pros: It's a good idea to have an all-in-one messenger that also checks email.
Cons: This program hogs way too many resources, I realize that it's just a beta version and it's probably the email accounts, but the space it sucks up is just ridiculous. It hogs so many resources that it was hard to run other programs. So I have uninstalled it and gone back to Pidgin, a program that doesn't slow down my computer. Maybe if they fix this issue I wll try it again.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby beta
"Good, Useful, But High in Resources"
Pros: Of course it's multi-protocol which is always good. The layout is good, the features are good, but I didnt like that when I added the myspace & facebook feature, an icon for both sat in my system tray along with the digsby icon itself. It soaked up between 60-90,000K as seen in task manager, VS. Pidgin which only uses around 20,000. All in all, pretty good IMer.
Cons: See above for full review.
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