Latest Chat Software

With a myriad of chat software to choose from, users may definitely have more than one running on their computers. But do you know what are the most widely used chat software nowadays? As of today, here are the most downloaded chat software from Download.com.

ICQ (333,049 downloads) – send messages without opening windows, tabbed conversations, message, file and call history.

mIRC (219,769 downloads) – file transfers, multi-server connections, customizable sounds, and SSL encryption.

Camfrog Video Chat (214,549 downloads) – video-streaming chat rooms and multi-user videoconferencing.

Windows Live Messenger (58, 614 downloads) – free PC-to-PC calls and file sharing.

Trillian (50,862 downloads) – supports AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and Yahoo.

The world of Internet chat has gone through so many innovative changes from the time it begun in the late 90’s. Many chat rooms are now voice and video capable. At the same time interactive sites like Second Life allow chatter to move around using their very own avatars.
This world has taken another step forward with voice changer software. Now people can actually disguise their voices by using specially design software that is freely downloadable over the Internet.
This is particularly popular in interactive sites where people are allowed to create their very own Internet persona. Although this is meant to create more interest, it is also potentially dangerous when abused.

Do you want to have more fun when it comes to online video chatting? Would you want to record videos with live effects? CyberLink YouCam 2 can provide you that. This internet messaging software has 12 new avatars that will grant you the chance to pass as a historical figure or their much loved pet. The illusion of this software is truly outstanding. It will imitate your eye, head movements and your head. Online file sharing is also possible in CyberLink YouCam 2. You can receive and send PowerPoint Presentations and photos to your friends who also has CyberLink YouCam 2.

No, Miranda is no chick and this is not an online-dating chat room, but she could have sounded pretty good right? Miranda internet messaging is small and swift. It is easy to use because of its support of multiple protocols. It is created from ground-up to be resource competent. Concurrently, it is providing a rich quality set. Miranda comprises support for Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu and ICQ. In addition to that, Miranda can be personalized, adapted and broaden functionality for your liking. Miranda also has perks like hundred of icons, plug-ins, sounds and the like, you can choose from.

The popular chat software goes mobile and it’s loaded with the same features you get on your desktop, allowing you to interact with friends over most of the popular social groups. The iPhone being one of the hottest selling smartphones around, it’s was only time till the favorite software got into developing a version for the famed chat and social ware. The software takes every contact you have and collates them into one dynamic list called the FringFriends which allows oyu to keep in touch anywhere, anytime. One thing makes this chat platform unique is the ability to get add-ons to the software offering more customization for the user. As reviewed, it makes your iPhone the Ultimate Social gadget and one more good thing, it works for the iPod Touch too. Read the rest of this entry »

Also for the Mac, the program adds the ability to publish posts to the Twitter network from your Mac as if you were using a desktop, instead….. you’re using a Mac. It has a very clean interface that can be as neat as they come and it is also compacted to not mess up your nice and nifty Mac’s display. Very much similar to the version for desktops it gives you all the benefits of Twitter on the Mac which was a long time coming. Read the rest of this entry »

This is one of the many social web aggregators that allows you to obtain feeds from several social sites and displays them side by side for quick and easy viewing. It is a mashable app for you can not only get all your incoming messages from your several social site memberships but you can also get feeds wherever you have subscribed from them. It takes the place of logging into the several social sites one by one in order to monitor your accounts and friends, shifting from one screen to the next as you try to keep abreast with several messages being asked or answered at the same time often losing some in the process. It also take a whole lot of bandwidth to have several log ins that are sending in feeds to this comes as a nifty tool indeed to get them all in and addressed in a timely manner. Read the rest of this entry »

In fairness to the few Mac users out there, we have Adium a multi-IM platform that supports the Mac. As we all know, the Mac has managed to keep it’s fair share of the PC ruled world and they have this nifty tool that does support some of the most popular IM platforms such as AOL, ICQ, .Mac, Jabber, GoogleTalk, LiveJournal, MSN Messenger, Bonjour, iChat, Gadu-Gadu and Lotus Samtime with only one notable exception ICQ. They start off with a nifty and smart looking funny duck for an icon but unknowingly, install was so quick, it was almost instant. Getting into the system was a breeze with a short signup and signin processs and you’re on your way. The interface is straight forward and can even be familiar, with a very pleasant tune that indicates log in or leaving the chat room. The program is available for download for free on many sites on the internet and once you get it up and running, you are sure to be advised to install the Growl program which handles notifications, and did we mention the program was free. Read the rest of this entry »

Besides the AOL chat client, Skype and GTalk, one of the most popular chat applications is Yahoo Messenger. The Yahoo Messenger software has undergone a lot of transformations and changes to reach its current incarnation in the form of Yahoo Messenger 9.0. It supports and sports all the previous features of older versions of the soft ware and has improved on a lot of them, like file and photo sharing, PC to PC calls, chat rooms, SMS messaging, webcam and file transfer are just some of the buffed up features in this new version.

It also has a sleeker, more sophisticated and modern look, and accompanied by a new Themes option, Yahoo messenger 9.0 is decidedly different from the older versions. The contacts view / list has also been spiced up, and putting a status message has gotten decidedly easier.

One of the best VoIP software around and it has become one of the most used due to revolutionary technology that has allowed it to rule the industry. Since it’s introduction, the service has continued to improve and with today’s Skype 4.0, things are just getting better. Use it anywhere on earth and it provides one of the best chat systems ever allowing you to have endless conversations whether through mobile or your laptop, you get good audio and text reception the world over.
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