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Pidgin's Buddy pounce, a powerful Notification Feature

Written on July 13th, 2010 at 23:46 pm by shredder12

Consider this scenario - you want to have an imp. discussion with someone on your chat list and the person is marked away. You are wondering if there is any way you could be notified when he returns. Of course, we can leave a message but it won't be any more useful than a short email if you are sleeping or away. Now you would ask,"Then how would a notification be of any use if I am sleeping :P?". Well, what if the notification is audio-visual - a song, horror sound, annoying alarm etc. No, I am not dreaming, it can be easily done using Pidgin's Buddy pounce.

Pidgin 2.7 is here with some Bug Fixes and new Features

Written on May 15th, 2010 at 16:00 pm by shredder12

Good news for all the pidgin fans, Pidgin developers have announced the release of the brand new Pidgin 2.7.0. This release brings a lot of protocol support improvements, bug fixes and new features. Major changes include a better search dialog, better integration in the notification area, fixing some msn relates security issues and a lot more.

How to install and configure festival plugin in Pidgin

Written on September 30th, 2009 at 06:20 am by shredder12

For those of you who are wondering what is festival, it is a speech synthesis software. It is available for linux too and one can use it to convert text into speech(audio). In this howto I will tell you about a festival plugin for Pidgin. You can actually hear your IMs/chats using it.

Install pidgin 2.6 in fedora 11

Written on June 30th, 2009 at 05:42 am by chia

Finally the latest version of Pidgin 2.6 is out now. For some of you who are wondering what is Pidgin, it is by far the best cross-platform Instant messaging client.Because of the advancements in libpurple it now supports both Voice and Video. Currently this feature is available only for XMPP but according to pidgin developers it will soon be available for all protocols.

Finch, a command line alternative to Pidgin

Written on May 26th, 2010 at 19:17 pm by shredder12

I don't know in which scenario should I suggest you to use a console based IM client but I came across Finch for the first time while trying to save my laptop's battery life during power cuts by shifting to old school console . I am not sure whether my basic aim was fulfilled or not but it was fun seeing what ncurses could do :).

How to enable Facebook Chat in Pidgin

Written on March 11th, 2010 at 02:08 am by shredder12

I am an Instant messaging addict. Its the fastest way I can contact with most of my friends and work mates. Many of my facebook friends are not available on gtalk and I never wanted a separate tab for facbeook chat. The only solution I liked was to somehow integrate FB chat in Pidgin. I used the Facebook chat plugin but that didn't work for me. Thanks to FB developers who added XMPP/Jabber support for Facebook chat and now we can easily enable FB chat in Pidgin.

How to stop popup notifications in pidgin

Written on September 4th, 2009 at 01:07 am by shredder12

The notification feature provided by pidgin 2.5.5 in ubuntu 9.04 is activated by default. Earlier it seemed to be a pretty attaractive thing but I have many people added in my friends list and getting a notificatin everytime someone logs in was pretty annoying.

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