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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 3.x/95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT
- Date added: December 13, 2009
- Total Downloads: 641,814
- Downloads last week: 1,302
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 138 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on September 17, 2009
With so many ways to network and socialize online, you may find it difficult to keep track of everything. Digsby promises to help keep chat, e-mail, and social networking conversations in one convenient place, but it didn't work exactly as we expected.
This freeware program looks a great deal like other popular chat programs, such as AIM. With a skinny rectangular box running along the side of your computer, a prompt to add accounts helps you get started. From here you will find a menu of seven different IM programs to choose from, six different e-mail programs, and four different social networking sites. When selected, each simply asks for your log-in and password and connects to the system. Your various programs are displayed, with IM buddy icons separate from e-mail and social networking e-mails.
Single-click or mouse-over the name of the person you want to chat with to access IM options, including SMS, e-mail, and file transfer. Double-click to initiate an IM chat, while the context menu offers those options as well as buddy-specific history logs. The e-mail service will open your default e-mail client, although you can preview your Webmail in-box through the Digsby contact list. Facebook users can update their feeds, check their friends' feeds, and get full feed streams in Digsby, and the program now supports MySpace IM, as well. If you have a lot of IM accounts to keep in one place, this freeware tool can help keep you organized.
Users should be aware that Digsby now calls out all of its bundleware during the installation process, so install with caution if you don't want the Ask.com toolbar or the grid computing protocol. This is a marked improvement from when Digsby only allowed opting out after the program was installed, so we're more comfortable recommending the program once again.
Publisher's description
From dotSyntax :Digsby helps you manage all your IM, e-mail, and social network accounts from one easy-to-use application. Digsby lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Facebook Chat, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list. It provides notifications when new e-mails arrive and lets you perform actions such as "Mark as Read" or "Report Spam" without having to go to your inbox while also keeping you up-to-date on what's happening on your social networks with pop-up notifications and a news feed of recent events for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and MySpace.
CNET Editor's Note: Beta or prerelease software is not intended for inexperienced users, as the software may contain bugs or may potentially damage your system. We strongly recommend that users exercise caution and save all mission-critical data before installing or using this software.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 138 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby build 75 (beta)
Pros: Everything arranged that it was easy to manage ALL IM/Email/Contacts within one application! ~ Simple and easy to use.
Cons: I don't know where everyone is getting problems from, but I experienced very few, and they were so minor that they were fixed quickly.
I ~ DID NOT~ get a redirect to another site for download.Summary: Like ANY new product, its starts off simply and as improvements are added, it will have varying issues.
But these are the standard norm for anything that is always upgraded and improved.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby build 75 (beta)
"Next to Pidgin, the best multi-chat client"
Pros: This is very nicely organized, it runs flawlessly, and it integrates the multiple chat clients (AIM, MSN, gChat, Facebook chat, etc.) without any fussing around.
Cons: I havent hit any downsides yet... it would be awesome if it did Skype, too
Summary: I would definitely recommend Digsby.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby build 75 (beta)
"Great help keeping me organized and "in touch""
Pros: Lets me know when I've got new email in all of my yahoo, hotmail, and Gmail accounts
Chat from Facebook, MSN and Yahoo
Keep on top of Twitter and Facebook updates.Cons: None so far
Summary: I'm not much of a social networker, so I haven't looked for a program like this before. It's worked great so far.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby build 75 (beta)
Pros: The idea of digsby running multiple platforms is awesome, especially since pidgin didn't have twitter and facebook. I didn't have to run tweetdeck...it was all set up on digsby, i was sold at first.
Cons: I found it had a LOT of crap bundled with it. It would crash with Y!M and try to log me in the same name 3 times simultaneously.
Summary: When I decided to uninstall disgby because of the cons it was like WHEW yay. Everything back to normal, right? WRONG! It crashes my windows explorer.........EFF YOU DIGSBY! Use trillian astra or pidgin, DIGSBY IS NOT WORTH THE HASSLE!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby build 75 (beta)
"Great product, if it had not been for malware"
Pros: I loved how I could manage all my email, IM's, and Social Networking all in one application. Some of the skins were very visually appealing. It is also very easy to use.
Cons: Very poor privacy. See bottom-line section for details.
Summary: I was skeptical about this program since the official website got a poor rating from WOT (Web of Trust). It was primarily because when downloaded, the website would redirect to another site known for installing malware. There were also certain featu... read more >>
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