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New TeraCopy Design

October 27th, 2007 41 comments

After rewriting TC’s engine I figured out that it needs more informative progress bars. It will now display the amount of both read and written data.

New Design

This version is still in development, any suggestions are welcomed.

Update: v2.0 beta is released

Pidgin – universal instant messenger

October 14th, 2007 7 comments

PigingYesterday I’ve read a few lines about Pidgin in a computer magazine and immediately downloaded it, because it looked very promising. Support of multiple protocols (AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Google Talk) is exactly what I need for technical support purposes.

Some time ago Trillian was the good option, but then I discovered QIP, which was much better in many aspects. Unfortunately, QIP works with the ICQ protocol only, but I still highly recommend it to the ICQ fans who do not like to mess with plugins. QIP already has a lot of nice features in the standard package.

Pidgin looks rather simple right after install, but it comes with plenty of plugins. There are many useful ones, so check them out. Additionaly, I’ve downloaded Guifications, a customizable plugin for “toaster” popup notifications. You can see here how it looks.

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