We got several feedbacks from our adorable users with complaints about 8hands' RAM and CPU usage. We realized that 8hands was a bit heavy for some machines, and we knew we had to fix it – after all, 8hands is here to make your life better, not to make your computer slower.

After a few months of hard work (seriously, our developers have lost a lot of weight), we can finally announce that 8hands' new architecture will help 8hands manage your online social life much more efficiently while consuming significantly less resources from your machine.

This version is by far the most stablest, fastestest and lightestestest 8hands ever. Check it!

We've also made a tiny, but significant change in terminology: From now on, don’t say “Locations” - say “Sources”! Apparently, “Locations” was a bit confusing for some users, so we decided to make it clearer.

Download the new version and please keep on sending us your feedbacks! As you can see, they are helping us make 8hands better & better.

Hey all,

We've just released another 8hands build, alpha 0.8.108, that has a few minor bug fixes. Download it here or let our hot update mechanism do it for ya.

Have a great day!

Ha! A brand new alpha build is here:

• A new "All of my active friends" window: Until now, 8hands did its best to produce a list with your real top 8 friends, so you'd finally know who are your truest & dearest companions. Alas, we found that most of our users are as popular as Paris Hilton, with tons of online friends in all of their social networks. As a result, we've created the "All of my active friends" a.k.a. "8hands' global address book" feature. 8hands will now provide a list of ALL your active friends, from ALL your networks, as well as include their activity ranking and list of locations. This feature will allow a convenient, single entry point to your unified social network of friends. With this "address book", you can search for friends, see their latest interactions, browse through their various profiles and discover new 8hands friends to IM and instantly exchange images and videos.

• Lots & lots of bug fixes.

• Many stability improvements.

So, what are you waiting for? Download 8hands now and become one of our lucky alpha users!