Portable Instant Messengers Category

Coccinella is a cross platform Portable Instant Messenger with a built in whiteboard that incorporates the following features. Secured connections, avatars and emoticons, plugins, open standard instant messaging, multi user chat (group chat) and file transfers. Coccinella is also multilingual open source software. This Portable Instant Messenger can be run from a USB device on Linux, Mac or Windows via the corresponding binaries.

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Miranda is another great Portable Instant Messenger application. Like Pidgin, it supports AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and Jabber, however, Miranda also sports a plugin system that allows you to include other popular instant messaging protocols like Gadu-Gadu, Netsend, Skype, Yahoo and more. The unique plugin system also allows the user to add additional features such as Clock, Weather and RSS Feed Reader. This Instant Messaging application can also be run portably from a USB flash drive or other portable device.

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Pidgin Portable is portable Instant Messaging software that allows it's user to have access to all of his or her Instant Messaging accounts from one simple to use application. Pidgin Portable is based on the popular Open Source Pidgin IM software. It supports AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks and additional encryption plugins are available via the authors website.

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PixaMSN is a neat little portable MSN Messenger Clone. Unlike MSN Messenger, PixaMSN writes no files to your hard disk or registry so it can be stored and run completely from a portable device such as a USB flash drive.  This Portable Instant Messenger will automatically log you in as invisible to other users so no one knows your online. Once your logged in, you can remove yourself from invisible mode and start chatting with your friends online.

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Gaim Portable is an Open Source portable instant messaging client application. It is essentially an all in one instant messaging client that allows you to take your IM settings and buddy lists with you wherever you go on a portable device. Gaim Portable can be stored and launched directly from a USB device.

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