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How to use Pidgin IM to chat with Gtalk, Facebook friends

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So, you use Gtalk and Yahoo messenger to chat with your gmail and ymail contact lists and signing in to Facebook to chat with your Facebook friends. You can have all of your Gtalk, Yahoo, Facebook, Myspace friends at single place and can chat with them whenever they come ON in the web. This can be made possible by using any of the Instant Messenging application like Pidgin. All you need to do is configuring those softwares correctly. UPDATE on 17/09/2015: Pidgin will no longer work for Facebook as Facebook disabled its XMPP Chat API from April 30th, 2015. What is an Instant Messenger aka IM Instant messenger is an application which lets you chat with your friends of different social networking sites and alike services whenever they are online. Pidgin Pidgin is one of the best IMs available in the internet. It supports AIM, ICQ, Facebook, GTalk, Yahoo, Myspace and many more. You need to add the required account that's all. Pidgin will do the rest. You can sign-in to multiple accoun

How to find alternatives to any software and website

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Recently, I have been searching for an alternative to KMplayer as it became sluggish to play any media files thrown to it. When I browse the web to find a different program to cater my needs I came across a site called alternativeto that suggests alternative to whatever the thing you have or you want to have. So, in this post I am going to give a quick review about the site alternativeto. I searched for an alternative to KMplayer and endup downloading SMplayer which is an opensource multimedia player and I already used to it in Ubuntu. Following is what I got when I search for KMplayer. Right behind the software I search for, there was a set of alternatives with a scrolling filter tab on the top the browser window. I selected Windows as a platform and chose free or opensource as license to find a perfect software for my needs. Possible situations to find an alternative When the applications or sites you used no longer updated or they stopped their services. Application for a different