<h1>Using one Jabber client to connect to all services</h1> <hr> <p>I would stay away from using clients that connect to all of the different services - no, let me qualify that. I would stay away from configuring my clients to connect to all of the various services.</p> <p>On the windows side, you have apps like trillian, which I've always found to be problematic once you hook it into all of your accounts. IMO, it is preferable to just use a client to connect to a server that supports all of the protocols, and thereby relieve your workstation of all the resource burdens.</p> <h1>A list of really good Jabber Clients to choose from</h1> <hr> <p>You can download and install messaging clients like <strong><a href="http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.1/network/psi/" rel="nofollow">PSI</a></strong>, <strong><a href="http://www.pidgin.im/" rel="nofollow">Pidgin</a></strong>, or <strong><a href="http://www.miranda-im.org/download/" rel="nofollow">Miranda</a></strong> (<em>Another user provided the link to Kopete already, which is also an excellent client</em>) and then use the <strong>XMPP</strong> server at <strong>"POSSR.com"</strong>, which supports every single service except for <strong>Skype</strong> and <strong>IRC</strong>. it even supports <strong>Gadu Gadu</strong>, and the more corporate Lotus and IBM based messaing services too, as well as <strong>MSN</strong>, <strong>YIM</strong>, <strong>AIM</strong>, <strong>Jabber</strong>, <strong>ICQ</strong>, <strong>Google Talk</strong>, <strong>gmail</strong>, <strong>Google Wave</strong>, etc., etc., etc... </p> <h1>Create your initial Jabber account in your client</h1> <hr> <p>When you install your jabber client, just <strong>create</strong> an account at <strong>POSSR.com</strong> (if you want your id to be joe, then create an account from within your client for <strong>joe@POSSR.com</strong>, for example), and then just add support for all of your other IM services through your account on that <strong>XMPP</strong> server.</p> <p>After you enable all of your various messaging gateways, all of your friends lists, etc., will appear every time you fire up your jabber client and you'll only have to run one client, instead of many, and only have to connect to one server, instead of many.</p> <h1>Enabling the Communications Gateways</h1> <hr> <p>To enable this functionality, once you have finished creating your jabber account at <strong>POSSR.com</strong> via the client of your choice (be it Kopete, Pidgin, PSI, whatever), then you simply enable the following gateway services which you can pick and choose:</p> <ul> <li>qq.POSSR.com</li> <li>yahoo.POSSR.com</li> <li>aim.POSSR.com</li> <li>livejournal.POSSR.com</li> <li>myspaceim.POSSR.com</li> <li>msn.POSSR.com</li> <li>icq.POSSR.com</li> <li>gadugadu.POSSR.com</li> <li>sametime.POSSR.com</li> <li>gtalk.POSSR.com</li> </ul> <p>Again, irc has been disabled as a gateway service on POSSR.com due to much abuse, but all of the other services are available except for Skype itself :)</p> <p>I hope that helps :)</p> <p>Kindest regards,</p> <p>Bradley</p> <p>. <a href="http://Northtech.US" rel="nofollow">NorthTech.US</a></p>