Miranda 0.10.27 (32-bit)

Miranda IM is a small, fast, easy to use instant messenger which supports multiple protocols and many UI and service features that can enable users of all knowledge levels to easily unite all their friends, accounts and chat sessions inside one app. It is very fast and uses very little system resources and requires no installation and can even be made to fit on a single floppy disk or USB drive and run from them without installation on PC. By default Miranda IM comes with only a few basic features, but its functions always expand by the adding of (more than 350 by now) plug-ins that cover everything from simple visual tweaks to large functionality changes like adding of new chat protocols. This is what makes it the right choice for the novice and the advanced users alike. 

Main window of Miranda is very familiar looking, resembling any number of other popular Windows chat clients. As always, main window dedicates almost entire real estate to the friendlist, with tools being present above and below it that can enable you easy access to app functions – control of accounts, your online state, add new account, manage sounds, add friends, etc. Chat window holds as many communication tabs as you like, with easy access to emoticons, logs, dictionary, text formatting tools and more. 

All of this makes Miranda a very pleasant to use multi-protocol chat client that is perfect for everyone who wants to easily access their friends on networks such as MSN, Yahoo, Facebook, Aim, and many others.

Partially or fully Miranda supports the following protocols:

• AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
• Facebook
• Gadu-Gadu
• IAX (Inter-Asterisk Exchange)
• ICQ
• IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
• Jabber
• MSN
• Netsend
• Tlen
• Yahoo
• And more...

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Tango Messenger

Tango is a video and voice chat application the lets you connect with others via their mobile phones 

Free calls for Tango users

Similar to WhatsApp and Skype,Tango is used on your PC to connect with Android and iPhone users. If your friends have Tango on their smartphones with data plans or Wi-Fi, you can call their phone for free without leaving your computer. 

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LINE 3.8.0.135

LINE is a popular instant messenger that effortlessly unites all modern platforms – desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and smartphones. Using its own communication protocol, users who are introduced to this great cloud-powered service are immediately greeted with intuitive interface and wide array of useful features. Main dashboard of the LINE features very stylish UI that will perfectly fit needs of desktop users on both Windows and Mac. 

Main window lists your friends, offers easy to reach sorting and searing tools. Message windows are also very easy to use, enabling anyone to easily chat, insert great visual stickers, and call their friends via integrated VOIP protocol. Users of the mobile version of this app can additionally easily send photos made with their smartphone cameras, audio messages, videos, and share their location. All that data can be easily received on LINE desktop client.

All in all, if you have ever used any modern instant messenger client, you will have no problems with LINE and its visually stunning visual style of showcasing interface that you have seen before in many other products.

With LINE you can easily chat with your friends and family, organize group chat with colleagues (up to 100 people), send videos and voice messages, play multiplayer videogames, chat not only with emoticons but also with big detailed stickers, and even preform high quality calls from your smartphone and desktop for free! Your account will even have timeline of events that your friends can enrich with their own shared content.

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ooVoo 3.6.5.10

If you want to enjoy the miracle of two way video chat between any modern platforms, ooVoo is your perfect choice. Powered by highly efficient video transfer protocol, ooVoo can bring you near to your friends and family together into one room with ease. The ease of video chat is brought for free on all supported platforms – desktop and laptop computers (PC and Mac), smartphones and tablets that use Android and iOS operating systems.  No matter if you are want to chat with one person, or more of them (so far, this app supports up to 6 participants), ooVoo represents one of the easiest ways you can communicate with people online.

Main window of ooVoo resembles the one from many other similar chat clients – everything is there, from user listings to easy way to control your account, app settings and online visibility. Chat window however is a different story, enabling much more tools that are dedicated for making as best video sharing experience as possible. Users can easily control their camera settings, start recordings, take snapshots, and control audio settings for both your microphone and your incoming messages. Thumbnails with videos of your friends are represented in an environment that represents virtual room, with chat streams being arranged in 3D space.

On all platforms, ooVoo is carefully crafted to provide best user experience with simple interface, low processing requirement and unsurpassed video and audio quality. With the power of video chat, you can live your life and communicate like never before! 

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Viber for Windows 4.4.0

Viber for Windows is a brand new VoIP communication client that enables everyone to be connected with their friends, family and co-workers from all around the world. With the user interface and numerous features built from the ground up to be usable on any type of modern OS platform and device from factor (ranging from your trusty Windows PC to all kinds of portable smartphones and tablets), you can always be sure that your Viber friends will be available for chat.

After being launched in December of 2010 on iPhone to be a direct competition of Skype, Viber soon expanded on other platforms, including a dedicated PC client app that anyone can download, install and use for free.  In addition to those two platforms, Viber also serves users of Mac OS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Bada, Linux and Windows Phone operating systems.

Interface of Viber for Desktop mostly resembles that of PC Skype client, with tools and friendlist being placed on the left side of the screen, and the rest of the dashboard being left for video call window, text stream, and box for manual tying of text messages.  This very simple approach, deigned with very modern looking layout and color scheme enables users of all knowledge levels to instantly get acquainted to all possibilities that this program opens. Calling, texting, and video chat is just a click away.

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Facebook Messenger 2.1.4814

Facebook Messenger is an official desktop client application of the world’s largest social network Facebook.com. This widely popular app was built to enable anyone of its large user base that counts more than billion people from all around the world easy access to live chat capabilities that can be accessed without loading your web browser. This is especially useful for people who like to multitask, but want to remain in contact with their friends, family, business, partners and clients, without having browser always loaded. By utilizing all the modern techniques that were popularized by other chat clients, Facebook Messenger enables users to easily maintain multiple chat connections and see the online status of anyone on their friendlist.

First release of Facebook Messenger for Windows Desktop happened in August of 2011, with final release being unveiled on March 5 2012. This version of the app enabled text chat and multiple window manipulation, but it also promised quick adoption of the more advanced features such as video calling in the future. Introduction of this feature sadly is still not yet implemented.

Interface of Facebook Messenger is very simple and intuitive, enabling anyone who has ever used Facebook to immediately feel at home. Icons and color scheme is evoking Facebook, with friendlist and chat window management being as easy as possible. You can even manage how you want to receive popup notifications about online status of your friends.

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Nimbuzz! 2.9.1

Nimbuzz Messenger is comprehensive and very useful windows messaging application that gives you ability to chat over multiple communication protocol networks, find your old, and new friends and make free calls. By combining all most popular chat protocols and expanding their use with new tools and abilities, Nimbuzz represents perfect way to communicate to your friends.

Trough only one intuitively designed user interface, you can connect to Facebook, Microsoft Live messenger, Gmail, Yahoo Messenger for absolutely free. There you can not only talk with text, but share links, photos, files, music, videos, and off course as much audio and video calls as you like. It’s all unlimited, and it’s free. You can also connect your Twitter account, and directly from Nimbuzz read your news stream and send messages to friends. 

Main interface of Nimbuzz resembles many other chat clients on the market. Large amount of vertical real estate is dedicated to your friendlist, with easily accessible tools being placed above and below that list. Chat window supports tabs for multi-person chats, emoticons, attachments and ability to start a voice call. Multimedia such as videos, images and music can be shared with friends by simply dragging and dropping them into chat window. Users can very easily add not only new friends, but also accounts from all popular chat protocols, including Facebook, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk and many others.

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Skype V 6.22.81.105

Skype is without a doubt the most popular text, voice and video communication software today, with reach that rivals many social networks and almost every other text-based chat client of today. It enables you to connect with your friends anywhere in the world on their desktop PCs, mobile phones, tablets, television screens and consoles, enabling not only safe and easy “peer to peer” communication, but also ability to call regular mobile phones worldwide, secure transferring of files, conference calling, and desktop screen sharing. 

Created in August of 2003 by the developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, this freemium voice-over-IP service and instant messaging app grew with tremendous pace, mostly because it managed to give people unique opportunity to call landline and mobile phone numbers directly from their PC. As years went on this VoIP focus remained strong, but other elements of the site grew, enabling hundreds of millions of people easy way to establish text, audio and video chats between wide variety of supported hardware devices and operating systems (Windows, Linux, Mac, OS X, iOS, Android, BlackBerry OS, Symbian, and many home and portable consoles).

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