Digsby scores over Pidgin in Multi-Network IMs

What do you do when you have friends scattered across the various instant messaging networks such as Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Jabber and AIM ? Instead of using individual messaging clients on your computer you can use Multi-network messengers such as Digsby & Pidgin.

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This post was written by Nikhil Pai on June 21, 2008

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Yahoo mail features differ by country

One of the most annoying part regarding the Yahoo Mail featuresets is that the free features offered by Yahoo differ on a country to country basis. While advanced features like POP & Forwarding are not available for free to users having email on the yahoo.com domain, they are available to most of the users on other country specific yahoo domains like yahoo.co.uk, yahoo.co.uk, yahoo.com.au or yahoo.co.in !!

To further confuse matters, the features also depend upon what are the Country & Content settings selected in the Account Information of the Yahoo user. So if somebody on yahoo.co.uk changes his settings to English-US, then his POP & forwarding gets disabled even though he is a yahoo.co.uk user. For a yahoo.com user, no matter what settings you select, there is no chance of POP & Forwarding getting enabled.

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This post was written by Nikhil Pai on April 9, 2008

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