Update: Recommended by Ady Romantika, maintainer of PidginPortable

My custom smileys package for Pidgin has been released. ForumSmileys v0.8 is a collection of smileys from around the web that I’ve found on forums and such. There are over 170 smileys.

A sample has been provided below.  Most icons are in the same style.  Many animations.

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CacheViewer is a plugin for Firefox which allows you easy access to your cache.  It presents a nice easy front-end for your cache directory and allows you the option of saving files from either memory or disk.

Pidgin v2.0(.1) provides no easy way to change the key bindings (this is intentional) so you can use [Ctrl]-[Enter] to send your message rather than just [Enter] to send a message. This is a problem for me as I usually like to make my sent messages intentional rather than typing something I’ll regret and fat-fingering the [Enter] key.

Since I use the portable version of Pidgin the file to edit is: X:\PortableApps\PidginPortable\Data\settings\.purple\gtkrc-2.0

Its contents should be the following:

binding "pidgin-bindings"
{
# enter inserts a newline
bind "Return" { "insert-at-cursor" ("\n") }
# ctrl-Enter sends message
bind "<ctrl>Return" { "message_send" () }
}
widget "*pidgin_conv_entry" binding "pidgin-bindings"

UPDATE: You might also consider installing my Pidgin smiley theme: http://blog.ozmonet.com/2007/forumsmileys-v08-released-for-pidgingaim/