Chat with all your friends on Yahoo, Google, MSN, ICQ, AIM simultaneously with Pidgin

Pidgin is a chat program (Instant massaging client), through which you can chat in multiple networks simultaneously. For example you can chat with your Yahoo friends & Gmail friends simultaneously without opening Yahoo massenger or Google talk/Gmail. Pidgin allows you to go to any or multiple chat room at same time. Pidgin supports Windows, Linux, & other UNIX operating systems. For Mac OS X  Pidgin is available as Adium. Now chat simultaneously with all your friends of
AIM
ICQ
Google Talk
Jabber
MSN messenger
Yahoo
Bonjour
Gadu Gadu
IRC
Novell
QQ
Lotus
Myspace
Zephyr.
It can support many more with Plugins (Plugins or Addons are small scripts that run in your browser), like Facebook chat, Skype, XFire, & Mxit mobile instant massaging services. The voice & video chat is currently not available for Windows.
Pidgin is available in many languages, almost covers every common language.
Go to Home page of Pidgin: http://www.pidgin.im/
Pidgin is a Free Program & do not contains any Advertisement.
It also supports File sharing, more than 150 smilies, buddy icons & typing notifications.
Download Pidgin 2.6.2 for Windows

You can also use Meebo for chatting for many Networks, but Pidgin has a greater range of services.

How To Know the Details of a WEBSITE by WHOIS, Stop Internet Crime

Few posts earlier, I mentioned about reporting about Internet Crime to IC3( see previous post). But the very important part for reporting about an Internet Crime is to Know the Details of a Website, who is the Adminstrator, his contact address etc.You can know all the details of a Website by "WHOIS" ( Who is??). WHOIS is a query used for knowing the databse details of a website i.e IP Address (Internet Protocol Address-> It is a number assigned to your Internet Service by your Internet Service Provider ISP), domain name ( e.g. wegatalk.com is a domain name, registered with a web hosting service), Date of Registration, Address, Contact number, date of expiry of the domain etc. Literally WHOIS can give you all the Details of a Website or a domain. Let's for example see the WHOIS details of site http://www.astitv.org/

The above screen shot is just half of the whois information, but you can easily see the name of Registrant, Date of creation of Website, Address, Phone Number, email address, so many valuable informations.

The WHOIS information can assist the Law Enforcing Authorities in investigation & enforcing national &a international Laws. For example if a site is doing some unlawful activities, like terrorism, Internet Crime, racisist activities, child abuse. Fraud etc, they can be tackled by their WHOIS information.

There are many services, that gives WHOIS information FREE of cost. Some of them are: http://www.whois.net/

http://whois.ws/ ( This site also Tracks your IP address)

http://whois.domaintools.com/

http://www.internic.net/

 http://tools.whois.net (This site also gives WHOIS information by IP Address).

Just go to any website mentioned above & write the name of website, whose WHOIS, you want to know, in the search box & hit enter--> you will get all the WHOIS information. Hope You will see the WHOIS, to know the Details of  a Website before entering that site or dealing financially with that site.

One Can Hide it's WHOIS by paying to it's Webhosting services.

Hiding WHOIS indicates, that the owner does not want a transparent behaviour & it looks fishy.

Enjoy &  keep reading & be Careful on Internet, Stop Internet Crime.