The IM Client war is heating up. With Trillian gearing up and Pidgin becoming an official 2.0, IM clients are growing with new features and tools. If you are logging into several different clients such as AIM, Yahoo Messenger, etc then you should try one of these, which replace the individual clients and fuses them into one.

Miranda

Works with: ICQ, MSN, AIM, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber
Pro: 1 click sign in
Con: Old School Graphics

Pidgin beta

Works with: ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber (and Google Talk), AIM, Gadu-Gadu, Simple, XMPP, and others
Pros: Useful, in-client plug-ins, conversation windows pop up
Con: Bugs!!!

Trillian Basic

Works with: AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, IRC
Pros: Tons of Emoticons, video/audio controls, dedicated file transfer system
Cons: Contacts grouped by category

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