How to add services to Trillian Astra, the ultimate multinetwork client

August 9th, 2010 by Esteban Heinzen | No Comments

How to add services to Trillian Astra, the ultimate multinetwork client

The new version of the best-known multinetwork messaging client brings new functions and support for extra platforms, and most important, a clear intention of simplifying its use. Let’s see how to add services like Twitter, Facebook, Windows Messenger MSN, etc. to our Trillian Astra.


Different options we can use to chat with our contacts from Facebook outside the browser

August 4th, 2010 by Martín Díaz | No Comments

Different options we can use to chat with our contacts from Facebook outside the browser

In the past few weeks, Microsoft has announced that Windows Live Messenger’s new version will support Facebook chat. This news has been received with enthusiasm by the fans of this social network. However, the service itself is not a novelty at all. There are client applications, like Digsby, Pidgin and Trillian Astra, just to name a few, that already do this.


Now Twitter suggests accounts that should follow

August 3rd, 2010 by Martín Díaz | No Comments

Now Twitter suggests accounts that should follow

Every day, we find out about new features that the most popular social networks add to their functions. The latest one is Twitter’s user suggestion tool, like Facebook’s one.


Facebook reached 500 million users

July 23rd, 2010 by Martín Díaz | No Comments

Facebook reached 500 million users

Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and founder of Facebook, has announced that the social network reached the incredible number of 500 million users. The website, which was released in 2004 and which had begun as a Harvard University student community, had 400 million users just 6 months ago.


Facebook and Twitter speed up the sending of data with BitTorrent

July 21st, 2010 by Esteban Heinzen | No Comments

Facebook and Twitter speed up the sending of data with BitTorrent

Nowadays, when many people have forgotten about its wonderful advantages and others have become part of the ill-intentioned discredit trend led by those who fight piracy, P2P technology gains predominance among leading companies worldwide. Facebook and Twitter are some of the companies that, using BitTorrent in particular, revived peer-to-peer in favor of their processes and [...]


Now we can chat with our Facebook contacts in Windows Live Messenger

July 19th, 2010 by Martín Díaz | 1 Comment

Now we can chat with our Facebook contacts in Windows Live Messenger

Rumor had it that Windows Live Messenger 2010 version would be more integrated with other social networks, and it has been confirmed by Beta versions recently made available. The news is that now we’ll be able to use the application to chat with our Facebook contacts, which satisfies many users’ needs.


With the improvements we were all waiting for, Adobe released Flash Player’s latest version

June 22nd, 2010 by Martín Díaz | No Comments

With the improvements we were all waiting for, Adobe released Flash Player’s latest version

After a long wait, and due to the users’ criticism for performance inconveniences, Adobe has just released a new version of Flash Player. But although this release features significant improvements as regards security, Flash Player 10.1 won’t live up to the expectations of people using Mac operative systems since it drags out problems when we try to move forward during a video playback. However, the product’s service stands out.


Connecting to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace with TweetDeck

February 26th, 2010 by Martín Díaz | No Comments

Connecting to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace with TweetDeck

TweetDeck is an application through which we’ll be able to interact with several social networks at the same time, like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. To do it, once we access, we need to go to the icon that is located on the top right corner with a tool, which is the one to let us access the configurations. On the emerging window, we click on the right panel on “Accounts”, and then on the menu that opens “Add New Account”. Once we load all of them and connect, we are ready to see them simultaneously.


ICQ 7: now it’s possible to integrate different social networks

February 3rd, 2010 by Martín Díaz | No Comments

ICQ 7: now it’s possible to integrate different social networks

After being the first massive program of instant messaging 13 years ago, ICQ disappeared from the spotlight. As a matter of fact, it didn’t disappear, it just lost market to other programs of the same kind as Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger.


Integrate social networks and instant messengers: ICQ 7, Digsby and Pidgin

February 1st, 2010 by Martín Díaz | No Comments

Integrate social networks and instant messengers: ICQ 7, Digsby and Pidgin

As it became known recently among off-the-record versions, the new Windows Live Messenger version will try to integrate itself with other social networks like Facebook or Twitter. What’s truth is that there are already other instant messenger clients like Digsby, Pidgin or ICQ 7 that perform this integration, although in different ways.



 

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