Once upon a time email was king of the Internet making it easy to swap news with friends half a world away without needing handfuls of snail-mail days or a bank loan for telephone calls. Then along came instant messaging and suddenly we were all talking in little boxes in real-time. First came AOL and ICQ, then Yahoo and MSN joined the rush. Now there are so many options it’s hard to decide which to grab. Worse, our family and friends all use different IMs and before we know it our desktop is littered with icons. Qnext changes all that. Qnext clears the clutter.

Qnext is multi-protocol, meaning no matter which IM friends and family are on, all of them can be reached from that one application. Order comes out of the chaos. For that alone and the streamlined way it deals with the task, Qnext is worth having, but instead of stopping there it offers much, much more, packing a big set of other P2Web goodies too.

This versatile communication client lets you open up ‘zones’ which are attached to the messaging window in place of pop-up boxes. Into these zones files of any size or media-type can be dragged and dropped directly from your desktop, allowing you to instantly share music, video, photo and text files or accept incoming files from whomever you are linked with. You can also enjoy group chatting with friends using multiple IMs by joining with them in the Qnext window, as well as streaming music for all of them to enjoy.

And as if all that wasn’t enough to make Qnext a ‘must-have’ application, it also provides you with a remote desktop which allows you, or anyone you give permission to, to connect to that desktop from any other computer, or to view files (again only with permission) in total security. Later this year it will also be possible for you to access your desktop remotely from your mobile.

Looking at security, Qnext uses an embedded 192-bit encryption key for all Peer-to-Peer communications. In Qnext, all items sent travel through Qnext alone and not over a public network as do AOL's, MSN's, Yahoo's or other IMs. Communications pass directly from your PC to your friend or colleague's PC and won't be archived on any IM network's servers.

Try it for yourself – it’s definitely worth having and its FREE!

Qnext Unified Communication Suite
Requires: Windows 2000, XP, Vista. Linux. Mac Tiger and Panther
MSRP: Currently obtainable as free download from www.qnext.com

Kate