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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows 3.x, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: September 17, 2009
- Total Downloads: 298,214
- Downloads last week: 24,889
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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: 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.
What's new in this version:
Build 65 introduced a completely revamped Facebook Newsfeed that brings the full Facebook experience to Digsby. Now you can post your status, comment on friend activity, "like" status updates, and even browse through photo albums. Support for MySpaceIM was also added in this release along with a new feature called Digsby Achievements, which lets you share your milestones within Digsby with friends via Facebook Newsfeed.
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Version: Digsby build 65 (beta)
Pros: Integrates several popular platforms and formats including social networking sites, I can keep track of my MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn accounts with a variety of helpful functions. Blows Trillian and PidGin out of the water.
Cons: No Skype support, and not yet available for Mac or *nix operating systems. Also it would be nice to hide the list of accounts on the contacts page to view more contacts at a time. Minor annoyances and according to their blog they are working on it.
Summary: I have used a variety of similar products and Digsby is the first in a long time to surprise me with a new innovation. Tray icons for my email and social networking sites means I stay connected and respond faster to updates and email. I would like t... read more >>
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Version: Digsby build 65 (beta)
Pros: you can u multi of messenger software in one. If u don't like to setup the different software on your computer or wait for they start when u turn on your computer. I'm sure , u are the one who need this software.
Cons: When i used yahoo account, i can't "buzz" my friend. In yahoo messenger, I can't "buzz" my friend and make them surprise :D. I hope the future version has this function.
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