Digsby - The Trillian killer?
I have always tried to shy away from instant messenger systems as they always turned into a huge time-sink for me. As soon as I would get into something, someone would always be messaging me with some lame and totally knock me off track. I have since become a rather organized person and have finally realized I need to use one no matter what. The main problem with this situation is that everyone uses a different service.
Multi network messengers are nothing new. Trillian has been the main one to use on Windows XP, OS X has Adium, and Linux has Pidgin. However, Digsby has some master strokes. It has one combined buddy list for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber networks. It will also allow you to get notified of Hotmail, Gmail, Yahool, AOL/AIM , IMAP, and POP mail messages. You can also keep tabs on your MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter accounts.
The negatives of such a handy program? The only real major beef I have with Digsby is a voracious appetite for RAM. I have 1.5 gigabytes of RAM on my main machine running Windows XP. Typical RAM usage is around 75-80 megabytes of RAM when the program is open but idle. I always have the RAM to spare, but I think it really could be optimized. The other side of that is I am sure having all the instant messengers it replaces would use even more RAM, as well as not having Digsby’s relatively uncluttered interface.
