if you have a good internet connection like Butterfly( am sorry Odhiambo Washington, I swear my comp automatically inserts that phrase whenever am talking of good internet connections like Butterfly, and it just did again)  you can both download pidgin from <a href="http://pidgin.im">http://pidgin.im</a> . Pidgin is a multi-platform(<a href="ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/releases/12/RFRemix/i386/iso/RFRemix-12-i386-DVD.iso">Fedora</a>, <a href="ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora/russianfedora/releases/12/RFRemix/i386/iso/RFRemix-12-i386-DVD.iso">Linux</a>, Windows, Mac OS)  chat client supporting XMPP(Gmail, Facebook), MSN, AIM, IRC and several if not all chat clients. 
<div><br></div><div>It has a feature that allows you to send files directly to a person you are chatting with. </div>