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Features
- Editor's Rating:
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Downloads:
37,204,376
- Operating Systems:
Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
December 20, 2004
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Publisher's description of Trillian 3.0
From Cerulean Studios:Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as audio chat, file transfers, group chats, chat rooms, buddy icons, multiple simultaneous connections to the same network, server-side contact importing, typing notification, direct connection (AIM), proxy support, encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ), SMS support, and privacy settings.
Without stealing your home page and with no other included software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique functionality such as contact message history, a powerful skinning language, tabbed messaging, global status changes (set all networks away at once), Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration), contact alerts, an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client, docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications.
Editor's review of Trillian 3.0
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- "All-in-one IM"
- Version reviewed: Trillian 3.0
After nearly two years, Trillian is back to claim its rightful title as king of all chat clients. Version 3.0 offers a completely overhauled interface, tabbed chatting, enhanced messaging functionality, improved file transfers, and a new Instant Lookup feature. The program offers simultaneous access to the fab-five chat clients: Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger, ICQ, mIRC, and AIM. By importing your passwords, buddy lists, and client preferences into its own interface, Trillian acts as a hub for all your chat traffic.
Installation and setup are simple, and the included features are useful. You can check supported e-mail accounts with one click, view detailed event logs for each client, and, of course, chat. Plus, each supported chat client has options such as video and voice messaging, SMS support, and file transfers. Trillian also offers skin support, although they can be a bit testy to install. While you'll occasionally lose contact with AIM, that's AOL's fault. Credit Trillian for fixing these blocks quickly.
The best thing about Trillian is that it's absolutely free--there's no adware or functionality limitations. So if you need help managing your schizophrenic chatting identity, this puppy's for you.
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User reviews of Trillian 3.0
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1497 votes
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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.0
"Try it and it will become your favorite chat client..."
Pros: Attractive, user friendly interface makes this software one of the best chat client. Dialog windows are tabbed, that's really comfortable.
Cons: Some problems with non-english fonts.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.0
Pros: 1) 5 IMs in 1 2) Uses less memory 3) neat GUI 4) packed with features 5) skins
Cons: Don't complaint about Trillian being bloatware and slowing down your PCs. It's just packed with features, and everyone should have more than enough RAM to handle it. I mean, it's not like it's Norton AV or something, it uses mimimum RAM, and you still complain about that. Come on now! The only problem is it's problem handling international fonts.
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.0
Pros: Talk with all your friends on AIM, YIM, MSN, ICQ, and IRC all at once, saves you memory lol. Nice skins, and tabbed chat windows option, that's really sweet...
Basically, this is just a great program.
I don't see why the user rating is so low...
Cons: User information, like online time, is frequently a bit off...
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.0
"good but unable to use non-standard characters"
Pros: + all-in-one solution (one program instead of four!)
+ small (no memory hog like ICQ etc.)
+ knows most features of the "original" programs
Cons: - since 3.0 unable to display non-standard characters (like umlauts ÄÖÜß, etc.) which it could before -> really sucks for anyone needing them!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.0
"OK, but has a few problems..."
Pros: It's nice to have all the chat clients in one. This program looks nice, has some great features, and runs stable most of the time.
Cons: Sometimes, after a restart, I have to enter all of my user names and passwords again, even though I've configured it to remember them and connect at start-up. It's mostly with AIM/ICQ, but occassionally, they're all gone. Sometimes, the graphics in the program are really slow at running and it almost locks up.
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