Messaging and Chat
AIM
AIM connects you with your friends and family instantly. The new Lifestream feature lets you stay on top of what your AIM buddies are doing by allowing you to add a variety of accounts such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
ICQ 8 Instant Messenger (Free)
With ICQ Instant Messenger you can video/audio chat, send email, SMS and wireless-pager messages, as well as transfer files and URLs. If you're away from your personal computer you can still chat with friends and contacts.
ManyCam (Freeware)
ManyCam free webcam effects software turns your webcam and PC into a live video studio. Use your webcam with multiple apps simultaneously. Broadcast your desktop or draw over your video window. ManyCam also allows creates awesome audio sound effects.
Nimbuzz (Freeware)
Nimbuzz Messenger for PC gives you free calls, messaging, and all your friends in one place. Connect with your Nimbuzz friends and all your friends across popular instant messaging - and social networks.
Mozilla Thunderbird (Freeware)
Mozilla Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier with such features as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail.
Camfrog Video Chat (Freeware)
Camfrog Video Chat allows you to join real streaming video chat rooms where you can hear, see, and chat with many people at a time. It is videoconferencing software works behind most firewalls and routers.
IncrediMail (Freeware)
IncrediMail is a powerful, easy to use, feature-rich, and fun email program. Better and smarter than ever before, IncrediMail includes features such as a powerful and fast email search tool, taking less than a second for IncrediMail to search through 10,000s of emails.
Yahoo Messenger (Freeware)
Yahoo Messenger is provided free of charge and can be downloaded and used with a generic "Yahoo ID" which also allows access to other Yahoo services, such as Yahoo Mail, where users can be automatically notified when they receive new email.
Skype (Freeware)
Skype specializes in providing video chat and voice calls from computers, tablets and mobile devices via the Internet to other devices or telephones / smartphones.
Trillian (Freeware)
Trillian is modern instant messaging for home and work that prioritizes chat interoperability and security. Continue chatting on your phone as you take the train to work. Wrap things up when you sit down in front of your desktop.
Google Talk (Freeware)
Google Talk is an instant messaging service that provides both text and voice communication. The instant messaging service is colloquially known as "gtalk" or "gchat" to its users, although Google does not endorse those names.
MailWasher (Freeware)
MailWasher is free to use and won't ever expire. It works with Outlook, Outlook Express, Incredimail, Thunderbird, Windows Mail, GMail, Hotmail and every other email program.
Pidgin (Freeware)
Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time.
TeamTalk (Frewware)
TeamTalk 4 is a conferencing system which enables a group of people to collaborate and share information. Every member of a group can communicate with other members in real time using both audio and video.
Pegasus Mail (Freeware)
Pegasus Mail is a free, standards-based electronic mail client suitable for use by single or multiple users on single computers or on local area networks. A proven product, it has served millions of users since it was released in 1990.
