Simkl team speaks different languages and lives in different countries. Sometimes we talk over IM and answer e-mail support requests to people from all over the world who don’t know a word in our language. But how do we do it? We’re using http://translate.simkl.com. Today we are opening this service for everyone to use. Simkl automatically translates full text from and into any of these languages: English, Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian, Translit. A total of 291 language pairs.

For your convenience you can access this page also at t.simkl.com

We added Virual Keybord that supports almost every language.

If you would like to help us to translate Simkl interface into your language, leave a message here for future details.

We will appreciate your comments and suggestions in Simkl Forum.

Since December 2007 Simkl.com was in private beta and more than 10 000 users had a chance to participate during this beta. For many users Simkl History Saver has become a must have tool for everyday chatting thanks to its simple integration into almost any IM software for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, BeOS, QNX, Irix, Solaris, SunOS, OS/2 and mobile devices.

During the beta Simkl used to support in full such protocols as AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and limited support for MSN except Windows Live Messenger.

We are proud to announce that we can now support saving messages from Widows Live Messenger and full range of software that supports MSN protocol giving access to full range of AIM, ICQ, Yahoo and MSN software to work with this service.

What’s new in Simkl:

- Support for more than 48 messaging clients, including Windows Live Messenger and iChat;

- Interactive full text search capability (now you can search your chats using an innovative way to search through all your conversations);

- Possibility to rename and delete any specific contact;

- Sort your contacts by last conversation;

- Simkl Tray http://tray.simkl.com software for history.im. Gives more ways to access your online history including the “Winkey+H” keyboard shortcut.

- New interface translations have been added.

Video Review made by Simkl user:

http://revver.com/video/658492/record-your-im-history-chats-virtually/

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CH97UoMDqKs

Screenshots: http://simkl.org/2007/12/11/screenshots-from-our-users-around-the-world/

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Most of us use several computers at the same time: at home, at work, laptop and so on… This creates its own problems. For example, you can’t always read your instant messenger history from your MSN or Yahoo IM if you are on another computer at that moment. Creators of Simkl service have developed an easy solution to this problem.

With Simkl it is possible to store all your IM history on a web server from different IM’s. To make Simkl History Saver work with your IM, you need to sign up on a website and change some settings in your IM software. Simkl works with almost any IM software on every possible platform with protocols AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo.

Simkl features:

- Save IM conversations

- Backup IM contacts

- Web 2.0 style

- Access to your conversations from anywhere in the world

- Work on multiple computers and have combined history

- Easy access to viewer through history.im

By popular request we have developed a new software - Simkl Tray for history.im. Simkl Tray makes it very easy to work with your online chat history. You can find more info and download link at http://tray.simkl.com

We will appreciate your comments and suggestions in Simkl Forum.

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One of our users has made a video review about Simkl History Saver. Thank you ocollier for the video.

PS: Simkl stands for Simple

Dear Valued Simkl user,

We will be performing Three network maintenance periods this weekend, during the following windows:

Maintenance 1 = 12AM-2AM Feb 9th 2008th Friday Night into Saturday Morning

Maintenance 2 = 11PM-3AM Feb 9th 2008 - Feb 10th 2008 Saturday night into Sunday Morning

Maintenance 3 = 12AM-2AM Feb 10th 2008 - Monday Morning

During these times, there will be periods of connectivity loss, and while we will do everything possible to minimize the downtime, you should expect up to 45 minutes of downtime. Hopefully downtime will be much less, but we are blocking the window periods during these maintenance periods to the hours above to be safe. We will be upgrading equipment and routes while implementing major adjustments on our Distribution switches, Core/Edge routers and Layer2 connectivity in our NYC and EWR POPs.

Please be patient during these periods from opening up support requests during the maintenance periods.

We thank you for your time and attention in this matter.

Sincerely, Simkl Team

Today we are updating our servers, so you might experience server downtime for 1 or 2 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thanks to our beta users and their test results we can now support even more IM clients. Right now Simkl works almost on any known Operating System, including mobile devices thanks to this software:

• AIM v5.9 and lower, AIM v 6.5 and later
• ICQ 98,ICQ 99,ICQ 2000,ICQ 2001,ICQ 2002,ICQ 2003, ICQ5, ICQ6
• MSN v4
• Yahoo! Messenger
• QIP 2005, QIP Infium, QIP PDA (ICQ protocol)
• Miranda IM (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo)
• Pidgin, foremely GAIM (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo)
• Centericq (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo)
• Trillian 2, Trillian 3, Trillian Astra (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo)
• Adium, Fire (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) - for Mac OS X
• Climm (ICQ) - Linux, BSD, AIX, HPUX, Windows, AmigaOS, BeOS
• ysmICQ - Linux, Windows, BSD, BeOS, QNX, Irix, Solaris, SunOS, OS/2
• Ayttm (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) - Linux, FreeBSD, Windows
• Licq (ICQ) - for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD
• Sim-IM (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo) - for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD
• MIP IM, gsICQ, Jimm and IM+ for mobile devices (on port 3128)

http://www.simkl.com

Today we have added our most significant new feature that not only works well, but also looks amazing. We introduce you our next web 2.0 feature - Interactive Full Text Search. We encourage everyone to try it and see how it works at http://history.im.

We’ve been developing different solutions for searching in a browser through large history logs and finally made a search that looks user friendly and at the same time it helps you to search even faster than conventional search methods (we’ve actually tested the speed of search in logs on a panel of users).

Besides Interactive Full Text Search in this release we have also made changes to page navigation and fixed some minor bugs.