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Prevent Google Talk On Android From Automatically Signing In
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Do you get inopportune IM chats on your Android phone, even if you haven’t activated the Google Talk application? There’s a setting in the app that always makes you available. Here’s how to turn it off. More »
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Trillian Alpha Brings Its Multi-Protocol IM To Macs
11:30PM Kevin Purdy | Mac OS X: Trillian, the slick-looking multi-protocol IM client has launched an early alpha for Mac OS X. It’s not close to feature-complete, but it does look like Trillian. More »
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Trillian Astra 4.1 Beta Boosts Twitter And Facebook Functions
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows: Trillian, a favourite instant messaging client with Lifehacker readers, is out with a 4.1 beta that ups its Twitter and Facebook functionality, integrates Windows 7 interface features, and smoothes out the already slick interface. More »
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Imo.im Provides A Web-Based Portal To Messaging, Social Networks
12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | When you’re away from your home terminal and without your favourite portable cross-service IM application, imo.im can help you get all your messages back into one window again. More »
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3:00AM Kevin Purdy | You’ve probably heard about a hard-to-get hugely new service called Google Wave. Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don’t require learning a new way of speaking. Here are a few of our (mostly free) favourites. More »
Top 10 Web Collaboration Tools (That Aren’t Google Wave)
3:00AM Kevin Purdy | You’ve probably heard about a hard-to-get hugely new service called Google Wave. Lest ye forget, there are plenty of web-based collaboration tools that don’t require learning a new way of speaking. Here are a few of our (mostly free) favourites. More »
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Digsby Sees The Light, Removes (Some) Bundled Crapware
6:00AM The How-To Geek | It’s been a month since we showed you how Digsby was using your PC to make money, and today they’ve responded with a new version that actually bothers to ask your permission before using your PC. More »
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Yahoo Upgrades Mail, Messenger, And Search
6:45AM Kevin Purdy | Yahoo Mail users are getting 25MB attachment limits and easier photo uploading, a new Messenger beta allows for full-screen video chat and social network link-ins, and searchers will get refinement and analytic results as part of Yahoo’s big Monday announcements. More »
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Trillian Astra Leaves Beta, Rolls Out Bug-Fixes And Features Galore
9:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: If our recent coverage of the Digsby-debacle has you down in the dumps over the departure of Digsby from your hard disk, you might want to check out Triillian Astra—fresh from beta and ready to go. More »
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Digsby Joins The Dark Side, Uses Your PC To Make Money
8:00AM The How-To Geek | The popular Digsby instant messenger client not only bundles half a dozen “optional” crapware applications, it’s also using your computer to crawl the web, do stock market research, and more. It’s time to uninstall. More »
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3:00PM Angus Kidman | Windows Live Messenger (aka MSN Messenger, aka Microsoft’s ad-laden IM client) turns 10 this week, and Microsoft calculates that 4.5 million Australians use it each month. I have a simple question: why? More »
Who Are The 4.5 Million Windows Live Messenger Users?
3:00PM Angus Kidman | Windows Live Messenger (aka MSN Messenger, aka Microsoft’s ad-laden IM client) turns 10 this week, and Microsoft calculates that 4.5 million Australians use it each month. I have a simple question: why? More » 
