I've noticed AOL IM taking up way too much memory on my system, so I
decided to give
Meebo a
try. At first it felt weird for something as fundamental as
IM to move into the browser. There was a lot that I missed,
like having the prominent blinking taskbar whenever a new message
appeared.
But after a few days I must say I really
enjoy Meebo! I realize now what a non-issue the blinking
windows thing is. I much prefer the more subtle "changing
browser title" that Meebo uses. Its less disruptive than a
flashing window, which allows me to respond to IMs on my own
time. To promote Meebo in my taskbar, I use
IE7 exclusively for Meebo and keep my normal web browsing to
Firefox.
Moving my life into the browser has been a general trend lately. I already
blogged
about InstaCalc, and I recently dumped my desktop regex
checker for
RegexPal. Although
I'm a bit wary of giving my financial info to a third-party, I think
I'm ready to try
Wesabe when I do bills this
month.
My Windows laptop died over the weekend; I'm
currently on
the Ubuntu
desktop, and frankly, with so much of my life online, I don't
miss much!
Comments (4)
Pls post a followup about Wesabe - I'm a bit too paranoid with my finances to actually try it!
Wesabe feels something everyone loves, but when asked to use it, everyone looks around the room and says "not it!"