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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 11, 2007
- Total Downloads: 37,204,376
- Downloads last week: 39,242
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1552 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
After nearly two years, Trillian is back to claim its rightful title as king of all chat clients. Version 3 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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Publisher's description
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, tabbed chatting, system-tray notifications and alerts, and privacy settings.
Version 3.1.9.0 is a maintenance release and resolves a bug effecting Yahoo Messenger.
What's new in this version:
The latest version resolves an bug effecting Yahoo messenger accounts.
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User reviews of Trillian 3.1.9.0
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1552 votes
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.1.9.0
Pros: Although, I don't recall Pidgin having any skins, Trillian does. Trillian looks very nice, has very smooth sounds, and works like a professional client.
Cons: I used it for quite a while until I found Pidgin, and I dislike Trillian for many reasons. First, I never liked using AIM 6+ or classic AIM, so when I switched to Trillian, it was fine until I noticed it used a lot of memory, which sucked but maybe it's because of the very nice interface? Another reason why I don't like it is because personal profiles are only viewed in plain text and very poorly.
Also, a lot of their plugins don't work unless you buy the pro version. I really hate how some free products tease you like that! Bad enough, the Pro version basically works almost the same as Pidgin and Pidgin is free (although no skins/themes, a small price to pay for.)
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.1.9.0
Pros: skinnable!!! all-in-one IM client
Cons: Certain plug-ins only work with pro version. A few bugs, for instance, some of my friends are "offline" although I am communicating ia IM at the time. Works very well with AIM, but is a work-around with the others (MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk...)
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.1.9.0
"Great Program, Careful or You'll get Spyware with it!!"
Pros: easy to use multi-system chat.
Cons: Be very careful, it will prompt you to download the ask.com toolbar spyware. See Ben Edelman's research if curious how this program qualifies as spyware, but suffice it to say UNCHECK THAT BOX or you'll be barraged by pop-up boxes and have your surfing info transmitted back to Ask.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.1.9.0
"Trillian needs to step up to the plate."
Pros: Trillian might have been something of interest a few years ago but not anymore. Pidgin, and now Digsby, offer all of the same bells and whistle that you would need to purchase trillian pro.
Cons: Trillian is unstable and hogs memory. Webcam use often malfunctions. To use the gtalk(XMPP) protocol, you need to upgrade to Trillian Pro - yes, it will cost you. The interface is dated in my opinion. Setup/configuration is convoluted.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Trillian 3.1.9.0
Pros: I havent used trillian for around 8 years now and I have been very impress that it looks richer and neater with alot more features than 8 years ago.
The User Interface is pretty and clear.Features are neatly categorized so with a bit of time the program is easy to learn
Cons: Beginners may find this software difficult to use.It took me a while to find out how to change my display name .
Some people may have connection problems.I'm not behind any proxy nor do i have any firewall install and at first it had problems connecting.
Some people may find this program very confusing to use .I guess the people who do not like this software are the ones that use MSN day by day and are not computer literate
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