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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 26, 2008
- Total Downloads: 38,074,886
- Downloads last week: 32,559
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1551 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 08, 2008
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.
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User reviews of Trillian 3.1.12.0
- Average user rating: 4.0 stars out of 1551 votes
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Version: Trillian 3.1.12.0
"Tremendous application for IM management"
Pros: I like how it brings two of the more popular IM packages together. I like the ease of use, the interface, and the features provided.
Cons: Wish it handled more clients than it does. Tried the Trillian ASTRA version and didn't like it too well.
Summary: Love the product and have been using Trillian Basic for about 3 years. Easy product that allows me to communicate with majority of my friends and business associates.
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Version: Trillian 3.1.12.0
Pros: Trillian gives you what you need without all the glam & glitter that's prevalent in the other messengers, this is what messengers need to be.
Cons: None to speak of.
Summary: After going back to YIM after years of using Trillian, Yahoo announced my older ad-free version would cease to function on August 15th 2009. Made the leap back to Trillian and I'm glad I did. Trillian does everything I need it to without all the a... read more >>
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Version: Trillian 3.1.12.0
Pros: Multiple account connectivity and some useful interfaces features.
Cons: Resource hog, too many bells and whistles that I really don't need--but it does function well for what it does.
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Version: Trillian 3.1.12.0
Pros: great im in one place
Cons: there are none
Summary: great im in one place
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Version: Trillian 3.1.12.0
"Excellent. Highly recommended."
Pros: More emoticons then ever used before
Cons: none that i can think of
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