About instant Messengers

AOL Instant Messenger by America Online

An easy to use Instant Message program is AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). It allows you to have conversations with people who are also online, in real time, one on one, in a chat room, all across the globe. All you have to do is type what you would like to say. With this program you can keep track of your friends and even organize them into different groups. This way you can stay in touch with friends, family, and even coworkers.

MSN Messenger & Windows Live Messenger by Microsoft

MSN Messenger (known as MSN) is a program used to communicate with other MSN Messenger users in real time.
Each user is required to have a passport account, which is linked to an email address that they can log in with. All Hotmail accounts are automatically Passport enabled. You can add users to your contact list by clicking the appropriate button and typing in their Passport Registered email address. You will only be able to send messages to this person when they are online and have selected to allow you to communicate with them. MSN Messenger is a Microsoft Product.


Yahoo! Messenger by Yahoo!

Yahoo! Messenger, also known as YIM, also known as Yahoo! Instant Messenger and also known as Yahoo! Pager is of course, an attempt by Yahoo! to compete in the Instant Messaging game

ICQ by Mirabilis

ICQ (I Seek You) is the first Instant Messaging program. It was invented by two Israeli Students in Tel Aviv and AOL currently owns ICQ.

Google Talk by Google Inc.

The newest of all messengers is Google Talk. It is a messaging and voice program that does not have avatars, smilies annoying typing sounds, colorful or large chat text or anything I never liked about most messengers.

Trillian by Cerulean Studios

Trillian is a pretty heavy piece of software for a Chat client. Keeping in mind that it supports connections from AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Instant Messenger, IRC and probably a lot more, Trillian seems pretty light to be carrying all that around.


Skype by Skype Technologies S.A.

I kept seeing the code callto://name on an increasing number of sites and blogs, some even with a "Skype Me!" button. This URL syntax was used for Microsoft Net meeting calling and hardly seen online, but had re-emerged with the more popular software called Skype - now with over one hundred million downloads.

Gaim (Now Pidgin) by Gaim

I guess I wasn't hip enough to know about one of the most popular new messengers. I had to be told about Gaim.

Miranda IM by Miranda

Miranda IM used to be down as Miranda ICQ.


mIRC by Khaled Mardam-BeyChat

mIRC is the most popular piece of software used to access IRC. IRC, which stands for Internet Relay Chat, is even older than the World Wide Web.

iChat AV by Apple

iChat is the chatting service that comes exclusively with an Apple computer. iChat uses the latest H.264 video technology to bring you a sharp picture full of natural color. A unique 3D view for video chatting makes you feel as if you were sitting around a conference table with your buddies. You can also audio conference with up to ten people and sound-level meters will let you see as well as hear who is speaking. iChat AV also has instant messaging capability, emoticons, text effects, and more to make Apple a quality chatting experience.Apple does not have pc-to-phone calling, chat rooms, or a customizable interface and runs only on Apple computers.

Qnext
by Qnext Corp

Qnext Unifies Communication, Broadcasting and Media Sharing
ALL IN ONE SOLUTION for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

SOME OF VARİOUS İNSTANT MESSENGER :

MESSENGER PLUS! 2.50 PREVIEW
A year ago, the most popular add-on for MSN Messenger was completely rewritten and words of a version 2.00 were beginning to spread all over the Messenger community. Since then, a lot of improvements have been added to Messenger Plus!, however, small regular updates can't bring the joy of one big new release. Messenger Plus! 2.50 is exactly that: a major update containing the features you asked for in the past months. This page does not intend to list all the new features of the new version, there is just way too many of them. It simply lists some of the most interesting updates... enjoy! :)

20 ranking of universities in 2009:

20 ranking of universities in 2009:


1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United States
2 Harvard University
United States
3 University of California, Berkeley
United States
4 University of Michigan
United States
5 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United States
6 Purdue University
United States
7 University of Wisconsin-Madison
United States
8 University of Cambridge
United Kingdom
9 Yale University
United States
10 Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China
11 University of Oxford
United Kingdom
12 Indiana University - System
United States
13 National University of Singapore
Singapore
14 Keio University
Japan
15 Peking University
China
16 Moscow State University
Russia
17 Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich
Switzerland
18 Tsinghua University
China
19 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
20 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
India

The Windows Registry is a database which stores settings and options for Microsoft Windows operating systems. It contains information and settings for hardware, operating system software, most non-operating system software, and per-user settings. The registry also provides a window into the operation of the kernel, exposing runtime information such as performance counters and currently active hardware.
When first introduced with Windows 3.1, the Windows registry's purpose was to tidy up the profusion of per-program INI files that had previously been used to store configuration settings for Windows programs.[1] These files tended to be scattered all over the system, which made them difficult to track.

some of various search engins:

Help files: Complete, but confusing. Too much thrown at you at once. More clarity and more explanation of options would be appreciated!

Google

"Search engine" redirects here. For other uses, see Search engine (disambiguation).
A Web search engine is a tool designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. The information may consist of web pages, images, information and other types of files. Some search engines also mine data available in newsbooks, databases, or open directories. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.