Go Pidgin - Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, Facebook, Skype all in one

Aptitude install Pidgin, It is in one of the typical Repos,
Add your Gmail, Yahoo & MSN accounts in it, (The Gmail chat protocol is xmpp just in case you didn't know), Btw you get new mail notification on pidgin too,


Download the Facebook Plug-in from (Its a .deb)

http://code.google.com/p/pidgin-facebookchat/

which will give Pidgin the ability to connect to the facebook chat, (You can change the status from this as well without actually going to facebook)


Download the Skype plug-in from (Its also a .deb)

http://eion.robbmob.com/

which will connect skype to pidgin, but the problem is skype has to be running, (you must also give permission to pidgin to connect to skype from pidgin) This Skype thing is a bit unstable... Yet! (I do not recommend it, it freezes Pidgin too often)

Now waste time more Efficiently :D