Most of us must be having multiple instant messaging contacts like GTalk, Yahoo, AIM, ICQ, etc. When required to be online in more than one of above accounts we have to use a seperate IM client for each which later becomes difficult to manage. And most importantly they cannot be used as a collaborative tool and hence not 2.0 ish.

Qnext is an advanced, easy-to-use P2P based software that lets you sign in to 7 IM accounts simultaneously! Most importantly it lets you communicate, collaborate and share digital content (music, images, files, foldes) too in real time.
BTW its FREE!
Here are some of the reasons why you should switch to Qnext instead of using your favorite instant messaging client:
- Simple and stupid setup and registration process
- Supports IM for iChat, GTalk, Yahoo!, AIM, ICQ, Jabber and MSN
- Adding an IM account is fast, easy and hassle free
- Includes all the functions your favorite IM gives
- Spell checker is available (disabled by default since in a chat client it will be hardly of any use)
- Audio and video conference facility available
- Nice animated skins (as in Yahoo) are available
- P2P Client. Hence sharing of files with one or more contacts is possible. One can create any of the following zones for sharing content -
- Music zone
- Sharing of Windows Media Player and iTunes libraries possible
- Zone webcast link to share the content on the web is also possible (like this link). One can invite a contact while sharing a file
- Lets you attach a description for others to understand
- Attaching tags let other users find the zone being shared
- Photo Zone
- Lets you share image files with anyone
- Basic editing like (rotate image, set thumbnail size, attach description and tags)
- Zone webcast link to share the content on the web is also possible
- Lets you attach a description for others to understand
- Attaching tags let other users find the zone being shared
- File and Folder Zone
- Through this zone sharing of any files/folders is possible
- Zone webcast link to share the content on the web is also possible. One can invite a contact while sharing a file
- Lets you attach a description for others to understand
- Attaching tags let other users find the zone being shared
- As per Qnext when two Qnext users are sharing content, SSL encryption is used which makes collaboration most secured and of highest quality.
- Allows audio and video conference
- Allows you to play games like Checkers, Poker, Chess and two other games
- Remote access of PCs is possble. Is that possible/will be possible in any IM clients? I don’t think so. There are two types of permission that can be granted -
- Full user control
- View only permission
- Access can be of two types as well -
- Full Desktop (Gives full rights to a contact to access a computer)
- Application Specific (Gives application specific rights to a contact)
- Qnext for Apple iPhone & iTouch is available with limited functionality compared to its desktop version
- Updates available on a frequent basis which means the app gets better daya by day!
- Comprehensive help documentation available at http://help.qnext.com/
- IRC, Group text chat and importing of e-mail contacts has been removed and will be avaiable soon
PC Magazine rightly said: “The Swiss Army Knife of Internet Communications Tools”




Is this better than Gaim? Sounds really useful! Lemme give a try.