Here I go and reveal my active Pidgin plugins (as of 2008-05-30):

  • Skype
    Protocol plugin, thanks to Eion Robb (Download)
    - doesn’t have Call and Send SMS options yet
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  • Facebook Chat
    “Protocol” plugin, thanks to Eion Robb (Download)
    - it’s a very basic/experimental thing so far, but :) it’s still super-duper
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  • Tlen
    Protocol plugin, thanks to Aleksander Piotrowski (Download)
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  • Bot Sentry
    Anti-Spam/CAPTCHA plugin, thanks to David Everly (Download)
    - you can set up a question, basic (just for spams) or tricky (also for morons), and a correct answer; when a person not on your contact list sends you a message, they receive the question and after they answer correctly, they are put on a white list, you then see the conversation window and start chatting
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  • Guifications
    Notification plugin, thanks to Guifications team (Download, Mirror)
    - it shows “parts and joins” (among others) on your screen
    - sometimes it’s distractive, so I have it set up to show only joins
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  • Switch Spell (with EN, RO, SV, IT)
    Aspell Dictionary Switcher plugin, part of the Plugin Pack, thanks to Guifications team (Download Mirror)
    - if you have multiple Aspell dictionaries, you can switch between them and save one as default for a buddy
    - you can download Aspell dictionaries from http://aspell.net/win32/ (although it’s not the latest version, 0.6 builds seem not to work with Pidgin)
    - the Romanian dictionary doesn’t seem to be up-to-date with all the diacritics’ usage, but still
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  • History (included)
    - show the last few lines of the previous chat session, when you start a new conversation
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  • Psychic Mode (included)
    - shows the “buddy is typing” notification even if you don’t have a open conversation
    - if you’re in a hurry, you can quickly get over the “hi-hi, how are you?” part
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You?

Last Modified on June 21, 2008 @ 8:20 pm