Sisco Inferno

Recently I downloaded and swithed to using Gaim. After using it for a few days, I have found it superior to Aim. One of my favorite features, if not my favorite feature, is that you can have more than one conversation in one window. It does this by using tabs. Because of this feature I have thought of Gaim as the Firefox of IM clients. Once I started using the tabbed browsing of Firefox, non-tabbed browsing seems so unnatural. I don’t think I am quite there yet with IM’ing, though it is quite a convience to have it all in one window.

Another fine feature is what Gaim doesn’t have, ads. As Gaim is open source and Aim is not, there is no company behind it collecting money from your usage. Also, I look forward to liking the logging feature. If you enable it, it is disabled by default, then you can have your every conversation logged for future reference! Jake was telling me that he has every conversation that we ever had logged. This feature could come in handy sometime. A major feature is that you can seemlessly talk to people on different protocols including AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, and a slew of other ones. Without a multi-protocol client you would need to have an IM client up and running for each protocol you have a friend on.