Trillian

The lack of an instant-messaging standard can get frustrating when you
have friends that use different services. With this free application
you can keep in contact with your friends whether they use IRC, AOL,
ICQ, MSN, or Yahoo. The program retains features from each service, so
you can search for buddies, set your status as available or
unavailable, change your passwords, and so on, without having to leave
the program. You can also change its look by downloading (or creating
your own) skins.

Price: Free

Download Trillian now at:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,8308,tk,hsx,00.a sp

Here is a link to it http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/, I imagine it has been mentioned before .. but I had never heard of it.

wow! i just got that in today's pc newsletter too?? they must be having some troubles?? maybe just go straight to the source
www.trillian.com

That link does work with the .asp extension put back together:

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,8308,tk,hsx,00.asp

Gary

Ah, sharp eye. Or, mine are fried after staring at a computer all day. :D

What a handy tool... I'm definately going to download it.

it's a .... CoolDownload
(wow) that's a cool domain name too! for the NET

Originally posted by SiteTutor
wow! i just got that in today's pc newsletter too?? they must be having some troubles?? maybe just go straight to the source
www.trillian.com

it's http://www.trillian.cc not .com ;)

Carlos beat me to it :bawling:

Yep especially for companies who want to offer tech support via im.. :eek:

I love Trillian!

Just downloaded it. Awesome!

I used to have Trillain but I couldn't stand it. I didn't like the way it looked, and it was very hard for me to navigate. We have IMSCI at work and it works good. I like it better than Trillain, However you have to buy a license for it.

I never liked Trillan for some reason. Never coudl figure out why but didnt like it.

Hasn't AOL been trying to stop people from accessing AIM via Trillian? (typical AOL) :rolleyes:

I use trillian myself, and I think it is great the way it integrates all the IM networks (although it can still use improvement).

For those of you who don't like the default look, you can download a theme/skin to replace the look. I hated the default look, so I downloaded one of the XP skin, and I love it.

Peter

Peter, can you get the XP theme at the author's web site?

Got it, man I missed the skin area when I downloaded this program, and it truly does integrate everything... loving it.

I got the theme by browsing the theme database on the developer's site.

I just looked up the link for you:

http://communities.msn.com/WindowsXPTrillianSkin/

I like it because its simple and matches the XP theme.

Peter

Yeah Trillians great as you can keep all your IM proggies together. Also (and I plan to test this soon) I think you can run multiple instances of Trillian itself meaning if you have 2 ICQ accounts (one for personal, one for business), you can be connected to both at the same time :)

Originally posted by Jim_UK
Yeah Trillians great as you can keep all your IM proggies together. Also (and I plan to test this soon) I think you can run multiple instances of Trillian itself meaning if you have 2 ICQ accounts (one for personal, one for business), you can be connected to both at the same time :)

Oh, I thought you could login into two accounts from the same instance of the program. :(

Originally posted by Ahmad


Oh, I thought you could login into two accounts from the same instance of the program. :(
Its possible that you can... even though I've been using for months I don't honestly know as I've not tested that yet :) I've now found myself with two ICQ accounts that I need to be connected to as much as possible so I'll be trying it all out soon :)

The problem with logging in two accounts in the same instance of trillian is that the contact list would be shared; not very good at seperating business and personal contacts. This means all your contacts on each account will be added to all accounts.

Peter

yeah, they'll hopefully be fixing that in the future version coming in a month or so.

the best skins in my opinion are MICROSCOPIC or MBG. definitely the slickest. however, it's only a matter of time before trillian gets so popular that all the cheesy britney spears skins start appearing.