I bet I’m not the only one who’s using more that two PC’s. The basic example is one’s using his home PC and his machine at work. If your boss didn’t tell the sys admin to ban instant messaging apps because he was afraid that you wouldn’t work anymore, you got yourself a decent open-minded boss.

Nevertheless you might want to check your logs from time to time and of course from different locations, using different machines (you can’t remember the telephone number Eric sent you last night and you need it right away).

IM History can help you in this matter. It can build a chat history in real-time corresponding to certain IM account and let’s you access it from your browser no matter where you are. It runs on Windows Machines but also on Linux distros (no Mac support to my knowledge, yet). It can store your chats from different apps such as Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Windows Messenger, Miranda, QIP, Trillian, Pidgin and AIM.

Not only that your chat history will be stored online for free but on top of that you can manipulate it even better than the default archive stored by lets say Yahoo! Messenger. You can search with useful filters and organize it the way you like.

For those of you who don’t trust this practices (and on good reasons) I will search a portable app that doesn’t need to be installed and stores all your chat in an encrypted format, on your flash stick. I didn’t have any kind of problems with IM History just yet but I avoid writing sensitive information in IM apps anyway.

Take a look at their tour to make an impression before you decide to install it. Oh and don’t forget it’s all beta.

P.S. Of course Gtalk offers you all this in a minimalistic interface.


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