I know it’s been probably over a year since I did a Free Toolsday post, but I want to get them going again.  So if you know of any good free tools to share, let me know and I’ll review them!

This week I’m going to review an application I use daily.  I was a big user of Trillian for a long time in an effort to effectively manage all the different Instant Messenger programs I have friends on.  Digsby goes one step forward and not only allows you to connect to multiple accounts on MSN Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, and Google Talk, but you can also connect to Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter.

I use this to effectively manage the fact that I have friends, colleagues, and coworkers that all use different instant messaging platforms to connect.  It saves system resources to run one application instead of 4, and is just more convenient.  I do see the basic emoticons, but sometimes I miss the more advanced features of some of the various messengers.  The one thing I wish Digsby would add is IRC support.  I was able to open an mIRC chatroom I used to frequent in Trillian, but Digsby does not have that feature.

The social network features work for statuses, not all the features of Facebook, MySpace, etc.  It does work like a basic Twitter client, but is a little clunky.  I mainly use it to tweet on the fly and check statuses, but I do still mostly just use TweetDeck for my heavy twittering.  Best of all, as you can imagine considering I’m posting this on Free Toolsday, it’s a free application.  So you can streamline your instant messaging at no cost.

You can download it here. (Download link has been fixed!)

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Client:

• A software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer.  Each client program is designed to work with one or more specific kinds of server programs and each server requires a specific kind of client.

Okay, in plain English for those that are not uber geeks, a client is an external program that is powered and contacts the internet.  Some examples: Twhirl is a client for Twitter.  Trillian is a client for multiple instant messenger services like AIM, Windows Live Messenger (formerly MSN Messenger), and Yahoo! Messenger.  Ya dig?

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Glossary Definition From ABC’s of Online Marketing by Alexandra Wharton, Issue 22, Revenue Magazine

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