{"id":57,"date":"2008-10-29T20:01:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.boogly.net\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-10-29T20:01:53","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T20:01:53","slug":"facebook-chat-plugin-for-pidgin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/facebook-chat-plugin-for-pidgin\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just tried the new <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/pidgin-facebookchat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook Chat plugin<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/pidgin.im\">Pidgin<\/a>. \u00a0My experience so far has been flawless. \u00a0I shut off Pidgin, ran the Windows Installer and started Pidgin back up. \u00a0Then I created an account in Pidgin&#8217;s &#8220;manage accounts&#8221; area. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have any trouble at all. \u00a0So far, it&#8217;s worked 100%. \u00a0I really like how it doesn&#8217;t show me my friends&#8217; screennames, but just shows me their full (First, last, sometimes middle) name. \u00a0It&#8217;s extremely clean. \u00a0Now I don&#8217;t need to log in to Facebook to talk with certain friends, and I get to use the Pidgin interface that I love.<\/p>\n<p>Note: My friend&#8217;s virusscanner picked up the installer as a virus. \u00a0I used Symantec, with the latest virus definitions (October 28, 2008 rev 4) to scan the install and it didn&#8217;t detect anything wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just tried the new Facebook Chat plugin for Pidgin. \u00a0My experience so far has been flawless. \u00a0I shut off Pidgin, ran the Windows Installer and started Pidgin back up. \u00a0Then I created an account in Pidgin&#8217;s &#8220;manage accounts&#8221; area. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have any trouble at all. \u00a0So far, it&#8217;s worked 100%. \u00a0I really like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,60,81,112,122],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-chat","tag-facebook","tag-im","tag-pidgin","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/otherchin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}