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Integrate your IM, e-mail and social networks

If your IM software leaves something to be desired, or is dead to you altogether, you may want to give Digsby a shot.

Digsby works with AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, and even Facebook chat, so there’s no reason to be left out of friends on, say, Google because you use Yahoo.

It also lets you know if you have any new e-mail on Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL/AIM Mail and even POP accounts without having to log in.

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Craigslist User Reports Me As Abuser

Well kids, I’ve bee reported.

Someone has blown the whistle on my “That’s my girlfriends, asshole!” posts, filing an abuse claim with Craigslist, Yahoo! and Network Solutions.

Craigslist was contacted because I was re-posting their content, Yahoo! because I used their e-mail service to set up the fake “Gary” account I used to respond to the Craigslist ads, and Network Solutions because that’s who hosts this blog/Web site.

Apparently the “Bob W” who reported me via e-mail only had a problem with the two photos I had posted that were in the original Craigslist ads.

I wasn’t trying to personally insult anyone. When people reply to me, 75% of the time I get their full name because they respond from their personal e-mail accounts and not through Craigslist. I don’t post those names or anything else that could identify the poster of an ad to a common reader. The two photos I had posted were an afterthought.

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