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TIP: A Post For Pidgin Plugin Developers

Published by on 23 September, 2008 | 1 Response

Recently I wrote a small autoreply-answering-machine app for pidgin with a simple premise. Send custom automatic replies to different people when they message you and came across a strange bug. It never sent the reply when you received the first message from someone. I was using the “ReceivedImMessage” signal over d-bus (or “received-im-message” for the [...]

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Project: Splert – A Custom Answering Machine And More for IMs

Published by on 18 August, 2008 | 1 Response

Update Aug 25 2008: Updated to v0.02 and also added 32 bit package. Hit the link given below to download. You must have heard of (or used) the auto-reply features given by today’s instant messengers that are sent to the ones messaging you while you are not at your desk. But those are one-size-fits-all kind [...]

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Splert: Shantz Pidgin Away Alerts

Published by on 18 August, 2008 | 43 Responses

This is a simple tool I wrote a few months ago to turn Pidgin, everyone’s favourite multi-client Instant Messenger (works with gtalk, msn, yahoo, aim etc), into a customized answering machine (and more) when you are away from your computer. Basically it allows you to divide up your contact list into groups based on email IDs and [...]

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Download pidgin 2.4.1 For Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (amd64/x86_64)

Published by on 4 April, 2008 | 4 Responses

pidgin is everybody’s favourite IM client. Lifehacker includes it in the top 5 IM clients. Obviously I use it too, but one drawback of being lazy and not switching over to Gutsy Gibbon was that I w…

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