Publisher’s Description:
Xfire is the instant messenger for gamers. See when your friends are playing online games; See what game they are playing; See where they are playing; and join their game with just one click. Plus, unlike existing Instant Messengers, this one lets you receive IM’s without disrupting your game.
Latest Changes:
- Increased the screenshot limit of uploaded images from 15MB to 150MB
- *beta* Added the ability to upload game videos to your profile page. Read more in the FAQ
- Fixed bug with xfcodec.dll causing other AVI files to load improperly
- Fixed CPU load issue with chat rooms with lots of people in them
- Reworked voice chat internals to work much better on certain poorly-performing sound devices
- Fixed Shadow skin display bug with non-default text size
- Added buttons to the chat, screenshot, and video tabs on Shadow skin
- Added Xfire In-Game 2.0 support including the mouse
Xfire is the greatest IM available if your a Gamer. Xfire updates by itself to the latest version with no interaction by the user at all. Only thing missing is Video Chat. It is cool that I can check what server my friends are gaming on and see there score. Right click on his name to join and I’m on my way gaming with them. I can also tell how much of my life I’ve wasted playing video games, 800 hours just playing Battlefield series online games. Supports Ventrilo and Teamspeak too. Even though it it not Encrypted and ad supported + closed source I threw this one in as a must if your into keeping track of game scores! Although I found it to be BUGGY at times and uninstalled it after it updated my games without asking me for permission!?@ Personally I dont like anything that is AD SUPPORTED. Minus these problems overall it could grow into the BEST OF ALL GAMING chat programs, but for now HAMACHI with 256 AES and LAN OVER INTERNET gets my vote!
Make calls from your computer - free to other people on Skype, cheap to phones and mobiles across the world. And the sound and Video quality is great, too - keep it running all day, and it’s like you’re in the same room as the person on the other end. Skype has always been one of the best!
Features
- Free Skype-to-Skype calls to people anywhere in the world.
- Free video calls - plus get more detail than ever before with High Quality Video.
- Call phones and mobiles at pretty cheap rates per minute.
- Instant message when it’s not a good time to talk.
- Forward your calls and get text messages when you’re not online.
- Search the web with the Google Toolbar (optional install).
High Quality Video
Download Skype and you can make free video calls. All you need is a webcam and the standard system requirements for Skype above.
We’ve recently launched High Quality Video giving you our clearest, crispest, sharpest ever video quality. To use High Quality Video, you’ll need:
- The latest version of Skype for Windows.
- An optimised Logitech High Quality Video webcam.
- A computer with a dual core processor.
- A fast broadband connection.
- The latest High Quality Video webcam software.
Version 3.6.0.248 File size 22 MB. Official release. Release date: February 5, 2008.
Portable Skype:
http://portableapps.com/node/246
PGP ENCRYPTED Skype add on:
http://zfoneproject.com/getstarted.html
PSST II - alpha release
* Simple, free, convenient no-frills Voice and Instant Messaging software
with strong encryption, for Windows and Linux.
Changes from PSST 0.2:
- Totally re-written in Python - previous version was written in Forth and C
- Now features encrypted peer-peer voice chat (in addition to text chat)
- Vastly more secure encryption - RSA 1024-4096 bit public keys, Blowfish 256-bit session keys, separate session keys for sending and receiving, passphrase-protected config file, enforced presharing of public keys to defeat man-in-the-middle attacks. (older 0.2 version used 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman, and 128-bit X-TEA (whose security is somewhat questionable)).
- Inbuilt tutorial and manual
- Able to run several sessions concurrently
- Now uses the Tk graphical interface (better than FLTK)
- Many more features planned
Very impressive encryption with this one NO EYECANDY!
I liked the Page feature RING like a phone to tell the other person you sent a IM, and the ability to make uncrackable keys!
PSST DOWNLOAD PAGE:
Pidgin 2
What is Pidgin?
Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.
Pidgin can work with:
- AIM
- Bonjour
- Gadu-Gadu
- Google Talk
- Groupwise
- ICQ
- IRC
- MSN
- MySpaceIM
- SILC
- SIMPLE
- Sametime
- XMPP
- Yahoo!
- Zephyr
Pidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it and to modify it, but if you distribute your modifications you must distribute the modified source code as well.
http://www.pidgin.im/download/windows/
http://lifehacker.com/356291/ten-must+have-plug+ins-to-power-up-pidgin
Pidgin Portable
Instant messaging made portable and secure!
Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable) is the versatile Pidgin instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there’s nothing to install on the local PC. You can also easily add portable encryption plugins for secure, encrypted messaging. I think PIGEON is the very best one of them all!
http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/pidgin_portable
SIMP for MSN and Others Like yahoo messenger,
Easy to Use Secure Chat!
How do you solve this problem? There is a small security shop based in France (www.secway.fr) named Secway that have created a product called SIMP (Simple Instant Messaging Privacy). This product installs as a compliment to most of the major chat clients and provides a secure add on to your existing chat client. Yes..that’s right…you don’t have to change your existing chat client for a secure one.
SIMP automatically installs itself as a proxy server for your chat client and performs all the encryption and decryption of the chat session before your client ever sees the information. Encryption requires keys and SIMP has a very elegant key exchange process. When you message someone who has SIMP installed SIMP detects this and prompts you to exchange keys. A simple yes or no and you are chatting securely; if the user does not have SIMP installed the conversation continues on without any encryption as it normally would.
Now that you know what SIMP does, let’s have a look at how easy it is to install and configure. This installation is based on version 2.2.4 of SIMP Lite and the MSN Messenger chat client. Installation for other chat clients is almost identical. I have not tested this program though users who DEMAND MSN or Yahoo messenger would benefit.
To learn how to install SIMP Lite, click here.
GoogleTalk
Instant messaging — Chat with all of your Google Talk and Gmail contacts in real time.
Free PC-to-PC voice calls — You can talk to anyone else for free who’s online and has the Google Talk client.
Send and receive voicemails— If the person you’re calling isn’t available, you can leave a voicemail. Learn more
Unlimited file transfers — Send files to your contacts. There are no file size or bandwidth restrictions.
Gmail notifications on your desktop — When you’re signed into Google Talk, you’ll be notified of new messages in your Gmail inbox.
Media previews — Cut and paste video and slideshow URLs from YouTube, Google Video, Picasa Web Albums and Flickr into your chats and view them in your chat window. Learn more
Add to iGoogle — You can add the Google Talk gadget to your iGoogle homepage to put chat alongside other useful and entertaining gadgets.
Add to your own webpage — Just cut and paste this code into your own webpage or blog to embed the Google Talk gadget.
Gmail, Google’s free email service, offers built-in chat using the Google Talk network.
Built-in chat — Gmail has chat built right in, so you can easily switch between emailing and instant messaging with your contacts.
Chat history — If you use Google Talk with a Gmail account and all of your chats are saved to a searchable archive in Gmail.
Reply by chat — When the contact who sent you an email is online (in Google Talk or Gmail), you have the option to reply to that person by chat.
Google Talk uses open standards for instant messaging and voice calling. That means anyone can build applications for the Google Talk network.
Other IM clients — Explore other applications that connect to the Google Talk network. Learn more
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