To Trillian or not to Trillian?

[Enchant]

I have been told that I should get trillian. I am curious what you all think about trillian an why....and what exactly is it...I understand it to be a program that condenses all the ims and browsers into on lump program....but as you all know I am not that saavy in puter terms and not sure what I would be getting myself into....

what would be the pros and cons.... Educate me please ;D

[♪ SHOUVIK ♪]

Well, Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC.

That means u do not need to download AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and IRC messengers saperately, Trillian can login to all those messengers at the same time under 1 roof.

U can download trillian from www.trillian.cc/

This is how it looks



I must say that Trillian is a good software, I use it myself

[[K]hAoS]

Saying that Shovy , there are things you can't do with Trillian that you would normally be able to do with indivual messengers...like webcam and game

[Enchant]

nicechap said:

Saying that Shovy , there are things you can't do with Trillian that you would normally be able to do with indivual messengers...like webcam and game

when you say gaming what do you mean? like im games such as chess and stuff? and webcams I dont have a webcam , but will I be able to see other peoples webcams?

[Ultima]

I don't know a whole lot about trillian but apparently it includes all of the big name instant messaging programs into one program.

Problem is it's not very good.

[Enchant]

shadow0fdeath said:

I don't know a whole lot about trillian but apparently it includes all of the big name instant messaging programs into one program.

Problem is it's not very good.

why isn't it very good?

[The Sickness]

enchant said:

nicechap said:

Saying that Shovy , there are things you can't do with Trillian that you would normally be able to do with indivual messengers...like webcam and game

when you say gaming what do you mean? like im games such as chess and stuff? and webcams I dont have a webcam , but will I be able to see other peoples webcams?

Unless you have the paid version, you cannot veiw or send webcam, play games or use a few other features that are in each. i used it for a while, but I prefer to use the individual programs and then I get to use all their features.

[Jamie85]

I just don't like it's layout, I much prefer just using MSN, seeing as I have no contacts on aim, yim or ICQ.

[The Sickness]

jjamie85 said:

I just don't like it's layout, I much prefer just using MSN, seeing as I have no contacts on aim, yim or ICQ.

Yeah, the whole contact list isn't as user freindly as the contact lists on MSN/AIM/YIM. On a whole, its a nice program if all you want is the ability to chat, and not have the extra features that you get from using the actual programs

[Enchant]

so it condenses all my probrams and gives me only basic use......thats my understanding...does it give any extras though beside the cool layouts?

[Sasafrass452]

It can notify you of email for Yahoo or aol, & I think there are other "plugins"(extra features you add on seperately) that you can get as well. I can't use it myself because I have a Linux system, but I used it on windows & I liked it very much. It also saves system resources by not having to run extra programs. I personally recommend Trillian, so go ahead & try it out. After all, it's free What have you got to lose?

enchant said:

so it condenses all my probrams and gives me only basic use......thats my understanding...does it give any extras though beside the cool layouts?

[~»tobi«~]

if you use 1 messenger then i would download just that 1 . but i use aol. yahoo and MSN so for me trillian makes more sense . i like having all my contacts and messengers on 1 popup list