Considering I use multiple IM clients for personal and work purposes, I was looking into an app that would allow me to combine them into one rather than having at least 4 separate ones taking up my screen. At first I used Trillian (because it was the only one available a few years ago) which did work well. It allowed me to combine my AIM, Yahoo, and MSN accounts. But now with Facebook and MySpace having their own chat services, I needed something new to integrate those (since Trillian Astra is still not available to everyone). I tried Pidgin and it was alright. Some basic features had to be installed as plugins (which wasn’t as simple as I would have hoped). So then I tried Digsby and I thought it was great. No more do I have to try to chat with my friends on Facebook in that small tiny window only when I am actually looking at the website. The client allows you to see also which friends are from what service by putting a little icon for facebook, AIM, etc . overlapping their profile icon. Also, you just have to mouseover the person’s name to see additional profile info rather than having to right clickand choose a separate option. I have yet to try adding plugins so I will have to do an update later on that.

But for now, I recommend downloading Digsby and see for yourself all of its benefits:

http://www.digsby.com/