Evan Sims

Digsby is Nifty

Jim alerted me to a new all-services-in-one IM client a couple weeks ago, but I only got around to trying it out last night. Digsby is a refreshing take on a heavily bloated, over saturated and more or less stagnant instant messenger scene, and reminds me a lot of the clients of olde, when chatting was about chatting and not about sending ridiculous fucking animated vibrating god damn windows to each other. Digsby keeps it simple, clean, no nonsense; and I really, really like it. It has built in email notifications (including the all important Gmail), and appears to support Adium themes (don’t quote me on that; they might have just been ported.) What’s more, it integrates with a number of popular web services, including Facebook and MySpace, so you get alerts from them too. I hear they’ll be adding Twitter support soon too, but the Jabber Twitter client works beautifully in the meantime.

If you like glitz and shine and fairy farts- not that there’s anything wrong with that- this isn’t the messenger for you; but it is feature packed, accessible, and very fun to use. Give it a try, and check out their blog for more details. Be sure to let me know your impressions here in the comments.

The only feature I really want to see is a “Now Playing” status update, because I like to pretend people give a damn about what I’m listening to.