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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows 3.x, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 98
- Date added: June 23, 2009
- Total Downloads: 269,322
- Downloads last week: 822
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 128 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on May 08, 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 popular chat programs, such as AIM. With a skinny rectangular box running along the side of your computer you can simply click the prompt to add accounts to 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.
Users simply click on the name of the person they want to chat with and they can use Digsby exactly as they would any chat program. However, if the user wants to check e-mails, they will be taken to their Web browser and directly to their e-mail service. If you could write and check e-mails directly from Digsby, we'd be much happier with this download. That being said, if you have a lot of IM accounts to keep in one place, this freeware tool can help keep you organized.
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. Build 60 cuts CPU usage by 50 percent, adds additional features and enhancements.
CNET Editor's Note: 6/24/09-This was updated to build 60 (beta)-dolcourtj.
What's new in this version:
Build 60 cuts CPU usage by 50 percent, adds additional features and enhancements.
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User reviews of Digsby build 60 (beta)
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 128 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby build 60 (beta)
"Sweet interface, slimy execution"
Pros: The concept and free-ness is cool. There's nothing like it out there. Meebo and Pidgin aren't quite there.
Cons: Unfortunately, most people that install this nightmare of a bot have no idea of the hidden things they really got themselves into. It's bad. Really bad.
Summary: Downloaded July 26, 09
I uninstalled one hour later. More on why in part 3 below.
1. The least offensive thing Digsby does is hijack your firefox search engine function. You'll find (even without opting in) a "Digsby Search ... read more >> -
Version: Digsby build 60 (beta)
"This is a frigin good application! Fabulous!"
Pros: Easy to install, easy to configure, easy to navigate your way around and its Free!
Excellent.Cons: When minimized to system tray, would be nice for a pop up to appear to indicate a message has arrived. Maybe it can do this, I just haven't found out how yet.
Summary: Works lovely on xp home and pro, doesn't seem to interefere with anything else.
Idiot proof. Love it! -
0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Digsby build 60 (beta)
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Version: Digsby build 60 (beta)
Pros: It was seamless to install and works really well,
Cons: Does not (yet?) support Skype
Summary: I use AIM, Skype, MS, Google Chat as well as Facebook, LinkedIN and Twitter. This program brings them all together in one window, except for Skype. It's convenient and appears to work flawlessly. File transfers work well, too.
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Version: Digsby build 60 (beta)
Pros: because i need fb chatt in my mobile
Cons: because it tooks a long time
Summary: i like this is a new for my mobile and i dont like because downloading is so confusing
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