Chat with your friends, exchange files, and explore the worldwide Web with your PC.
Goober Instant Messenger for Linux is compatible to ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo. It offers encrypted chat and file-transfer, VoIP, SMS, music streaming, Web Space (public, private, protected), and picture streaming.It includes multimessaging and 50 unique similes, and also Landline VoIP-calls are free.
GREAT messenger . very low resources (video chat with 2 other members used only 65mb RAM compared to skype using 97mb WITHOUT any chat or video running) . encrypted communications . supports multi-protocols (aol, yahoo, msn, icq, etc) . does NOT use supernodes like skype . very simple layout . clutter-free design . NO ADS (as of now) . very solid audio and video quality . simultaneously video chat with multiple contacts . while video chatting easy to invite additional contacts . secure, secure, secure! . also supports facebook and twitter ( i use neither)
Cons
NONE! (so far)
Summary
i have been using this for about 4 weeks now and it is definitely better than all the others so far. i have used skype, oovoo and a few others but they have their drawbacks such as supernodes + resource hog (skype) or no encryption + ads (oovoo). i recommend anyone who uses messengers give this a try and do your own evaluation.