Instant messengers

[Potatoman]

Hi all. Im on MSN (.net) , my friend is on AOL and some of my family are on yahoo. Is there a messenger that can handle all different providers?

[Ian King]

I dont use IM but I always see the program Trillian mentioned. Im not 100% sure what it does but I do know it uses lots of different IM apps in one useful program. Take a look http://www.trillian.cc/

[IndieSinger]

Yep. There are a few software interfaces which put all your buddy lists together and let you communicate through one portal to all your buddies whichever service they're using. I found a few here, , here and here, but it may be worth checking out more download sites (www.download.com, www.tucows.com etc.) for others.

[Kev_UK]

Regardless of what you ISP is you can have AOL, Yahoo, MSN messangers. There is ICQ too. I have all of them but generally just have MSN and Yahoo open.