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My inital impressions of Digsby<\/a> are documented in a post below.\u00a0 However as one gets more familiar with an application one’s opinions can change drastically.\u00a0 Have mine?\u00a0 No way!\u00a0 Digsby<\/a> RULES!<\/p>\n One week after I installed it I thought to myself, I wonder what I can possibly find to not like about Digsby<\/a>.\u00a0 I hunted high and low and finally found my one big gripe.\u00a0 Memory hog.\u00a0 It was up to about 85MB of RAM.\u00a0 85MB OF RAM FOR IM!!!\u00a0 It seems pretty insane.\u00a0 But was I gonna dump Digsby<\/a> because of it?\u00a0 No, because of they actually have a beta release (which actually the stable release I think is also coined beta as well making this a beta beta release)\u00a0 which addresses optimizations, notably in memory. Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n So after reading about how they’ve dumped the memory resources, I hopped on the beta beta release bandwagon to scope it out and sure enough.\u00a0 I dropped to 30MB max and I’ve seen it go down to 12MB at a minimum which rocks.\u00a0 The features I use are AIM\/ICQ\/Yahoo\/MSN\/Twitter so it might go up for you crazy people with Myspace\/Facebook.\u00a0 Overall, 3 weeks later, Digsby<\/a> still rocks and only gets better.\u00a0 It was fun GAIM\/Pidgin\/Trillian, but I think we finally have a juggernaut.<\/p>\n My only remaining gripe is that you have to have\/make a Digsby<\/a> account.\u00a0 The pros of this are that whenever you log into Digsby<\/a> it will load up all your modules you need, but I often swap between different IM accounts.\u00a0 My laptop may be on one AIM screen name but then I switch to my desktop AIM name occasionally which becomes sort of a pain with an account based setup.\u00a0 I suppose I could make my account global and include every screen name I’ve ever used but I’m not sure if it’s smart enough to know to enable some and disable others.\u00a0 With MSN\/Yahoo you can’t have multiple logins so you get disconnected and can’t auto reconnect.\u00a0 This gripe is so minor and specific to me I’m not sure many other people would have such a unique gripe.<\/p>\n And speaking of 3 week later type of evaluations, I’ll be going back over Flickr\/Picasa as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My inital impressions of Digsby are documented in a post below.\u00a0 However as one gets more familiar with an application one’s opinions can change drastically.\u00a0 Have mine?\u00a0 No way!\u00a0 Digsby RULES! One week after I installed it I thought to myself, I wonder what I can possibly find to not like about Digsby.\u00a0 I hunted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timothyhanson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}