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10-29-2005, 07:34 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Trillian – That good?
Hey folks.
Anywho, I’ve been using Gaim and MSN for quite some time now. However, having said that, I’ve become a bit disenchanted with Gaim recently so have been looking at the possibility of using alternatives – yet low and behold, the only real alternative is Trillian.
Everything else, to be honest, pales in comparison to even Gaim.
So, does anyone here use Trillian Pro? What do you think of it? Is it worth my time shelling out the money for it and actually looking into it?
Cheers.
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10-29-2005, 07:54 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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I think it's worth it I use the free version but the company I work for has purchased it so it must be good. I used it from time to time for the company and I though its worth the money to spend.
You can go on as many accounts for msn, aim, yim, icq etc. It also has an away message.. It's well worth the money to shell out.
Hope this helps, good luck.
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10-29-2005, 07:55 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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I used the 15 day trial period a while back, and I was pretty impressed.
I really loved some of the features, like the logging (past conversations are put into the chat window by default, allowing you to scroll up and look at what you said before), and avatar-like buddy icons on the contact list and meta contacts.
Unfortunately, Trillian stopped working all together after the trial (instead of reverting back to basic, it wouldn't let me connect at all), so I stopped using it.
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10-29-2005, 08:01 PM #4Disabled
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I use it, and i think it's great.
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10-29-2005, 08:21 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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I use trillian pro for AIM/Y! and Messenger for MSN.
The official programs are better than trillian, but I'm on 3 AIM and Y! accounts at once, so it bunches them all together. That's why I use it.--
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10-29-2005, 08:25 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Trillian is fantastic
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10-29-2005, 08:33 PM #7Away
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I use it and finally bought the pro version. It's great a great product. I just hope Gaim picks up in features as I'd rather use that (or im2).
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10-29-2005, 08:37 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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I just downloaded Trillian last night from the advice of a friend, and I really like it! It's many times better than the official AOL client, and I may just have to spring for the Pro version.
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10-29-2005, 08:50 PM #9WebHostingTalk Lover
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It's not that good but it sure is convenient and I just got soo used to it
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10-29-2005, 09:13 PM #10WHT Addict
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Why are you disenchanged with gaim? I've been using it for a while and I completely love it.
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10-29-2005, 09:17 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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The webcam support is poor, and it lacks the cutting edge features of clients from the official companies. For basic things such as tech support, Trillian is fine. I don't recommend it for talking to friends, etc. Where you use display pictures, webcam, sound bytes, etc.
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10-29-2005, 10:00 PM #12Web Hosting Guru
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I'm very much a lightweight user of Trillian but there's one feature that used to be free that now is only available in Pro. That feature is the URL grabber. I got real used to it in the previous free version of Trillian. When I upgraded to the latest version I lost that capability. I still haven't bought the Pro version, but if I do it will be to get that back.
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10-29-2005, 10:07 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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only thing ive noticed with trillian is that peoples tags/nicks/msgs/blah arent updated when they change them. am pretty sure people on my list change their name pretty often, but i dont see those changes
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10-30-2005, 01:12 AM #14Web Hosting Master
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I love Trillian Pro. I would be lost without it.
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10-30-2005, 01:51 AM #15The Elder One
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I'm a fan of Trillian. I've been using it since we donated $5 to them, back 2 years ago
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10-30-2005, 03:10 AM #16Evenly Divided
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Originally Posted by Slidey
Other than that, I'm quite pleased with the program. I just do text chat (no webcam stuff, etc) so the program works perfect for me.
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10-30-2005, 03:15 AM #17The Elder One
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Every contact has a name (one that shows up as a contact in your list), username and a display name. You can change only the name, as it appears in your list.
If you renamed one or more of your contacts (i.e user@yahoo.com to "My best friend") it will remain unchaged, even if they change their display name.Lorand R. Minyo
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10-30-2005, 09:53 AM #18Riiiiiiiiiiiiight...
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support open source, save yourself some money... use gaim. Need webcam support, gaim-vv
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10-30-2005, 10:40 AM #19Managed Hosting Expert
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Trillian is very feature-ful, when I used it I thought it was fantastic, but it was just too much of a hog for what I used it for.
I now use Miranda IM (which does all of the various IM platforms), and is also open source, it uses a mere 5mb of RAM when signed on compared to Trillian at something like 70mb. Of course it's only text based IM, but that's all I want.
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10-30-2005, 05:02 PM #20Web Hosting Master
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I have been using Trillian for a couple of years now, but I didn't actually noticed any feature that missing, so I really don't understand why would you pay for a Pro version?
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10-30-2005, 07:17 PM #21Away
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Originally Posted by Fulk
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10-30-2005, 07:36 PM #22Disabled
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You get to use plugins with the pro version, yeah.