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Striving to keep in touch with our family, friends, colleagues and business contacts we are forced to manage accounts for various e-mail services, instant messengers and social networks. When you only use one or two methods of communication from the ones mentioned above….things are pretty simple, but for the unfortunate ones that depend on more of them, things can quickly get out of control.

On a positive note, the software market delivers a few programs that can significantly ease keeping track of our online communication methods. One of them is Digsby, a freeware multiprotocol instant messaging client allowing you to manage all your e-mail, IM and social network accounts in a simple, effortless manner and most importantly…all of this from within a single application.

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While Windows Live Messenger isn’t one of my favorite instant messengers, certain work circumstances force me to use it. The most annoying things about Live Messenger are the ads that keep on getting displayed at the bottom, ads that I believe, diverted our browser to unsolicited pages one to many times. Fortunately, there is a way around this, for people using Windows Live Messenger. It’s called Live Advert Remover and by using it, you can block any ads that get into our Live Messenger windows.

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If you were wondering when will the Beta testing for Yahoo Messenger 9.0 will end, well, it did. The long expected Yahoo Messenger 9.0 entered the stable release phase and it’s available for download.

Yahoo Messenger 9 has a more stylish interface, more spaced, better bolded and with bigger avatars. You have also the possibility to change the theme of Yahoo Messenger, changing its skin easyly with just 1 button. YM now also updates your status with your recent activity on your Yahoo services such as: MyBlogLog, Yahoo 360 etc.

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Scott Fahlman - The "Smiley" fatherThis started in 1982, September 19, when Scott Fahlman posts the folloing messages to Carnegie Mellon University’s BBS board:
“From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

: -)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:
: -( ”

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