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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 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 05, 2009
- Total Downloads: 524,947
- Downloads last week: 30,898
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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 70 introduces a lot of usability enhancements to the new Twitter implementation that went live a few builds ago along with numerous bug fixes and performance enhancements.
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User reviews of Digsby build 70 (beta)
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 129 votes
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Version: Digsby build 70 (beta)
"Good Product but missing some possible features"
Pros: Quick and easy view of facebook and twitter
Cons: Could use Skype and RSS integration
Summary: Not a bad product, it'll be interesting to see where this goes.
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Version: Digsby build 70 (beta)
"Loved it before, trying it again"
Pros: decent IM client, great Twitter client, only Facebook chat client I like
Cons: Had problems with my companies Web Defense product before - causing system lock-ups until I uninstalled it. After an unhappy attempt with Trillian, I am trying it again after verifying that all the adware is off.
Summary: I will up my rating to 5 stars if this works without locking up my machine again. I was bummed when I had to uninstall it before.
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Version: Digsby build 70 (beta)
Pros: You can't be buzzed in Yahoo!
You can send emails directly from Digsby.
Digsby is for IM clients what Firefox is for web browsers.Cons: You can't buzz others in Yahoo!
No conference mode... yet.
No *nix versions... yet.
No photosharing.
No animated avatars.Summary: Digsby is the best IM client out there. It integrates perfectly email, IM and social networking.
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Version: Digsby build 70 (beta)
Pros: able to use multiple accounts on the mail and im systems that I use
Cons: hard to change profile details for the various im programs
Summary: I use this almost every time I'm online for easy access to hotmail and facebook, as well as seeing whick of my friends is online that I would like to talk to. Excellent program, well supported, good interface
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Version: Digsby build 70 (beta)
Pros: Works great. Much improved from original release.
Cons: Can't think of any. Great product.
Summary: Go for it. they have caught up with Trillian.
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