Trying out Trillian

Well, after quite a long time, and hearing so much about it I finally decided to give Trillium a shot. I downloaded Trillium Basic off download.com, and the installation went relatively quickly. It did prompt me halfway through to stop and download "QuickTime", and I did.
Trillium is a multi login chat client that runs quite efficiently and after a few seconds, was very easy to figure out. It supports msn, ICQ, yahoo, and aim also. I was able to sign in with 3 hotmail accounts simutaniously as well as a yahoo account. It sorts your contacts as you wish, I like by service so I can see what's msn and what's yahoo. It also runs very quietly in the background, with little tiny noises that are not distracting like msn. Its fully skinnable, like msn messenger, has most of the same features to personalize it for you. The windows (for me there are only 2) show up at the bottom and flash 3 times. If I have 4 conversations going with msn, these messages will all be tabbed in the one window on the task bar, if its my turn to respond, with the skin I chose, the tab turns red. You can choose to detach a conversation from the msn box, and they are fully sizable, they minimize, maximize and its fast. My biggest issue is I have an older computer, this application tells me when my contacts sign in and out like msn via a pop up box like msn, and a small noise. This of course can all be turned on and off, as you wish. I don't think its hogging and resources at all, and I can run other applications without worrying about system crashes due to messenger. It also tells you when you sign on how many emails you have in each account, and pops up like a notifier whenever you get a new email in an account. Mail is accessible with the click of a button right above your contacts.
I only have a few complaints, trillium basic (free) as far as I can tell will not support any plugins at all. I even was being evil trying to find hacks to install some, it just does not support them at all. Some of these plugins are very cool, I'd like to be able to incorporate my GMAIL into this also, and I'm hoping that the next build will include Googles popular mail client, and also maybe some improvement on the file transfer process, I only tried it once but could not connect to succeed. It does support audio and video apparently also, but I have not tried that yet. My advice, if you are heavy into chatting, give it a whirl! I'm really loving it, I have a sexy blue skin, and its not totally in my face. You don't need to uninstall anything to try it, but once you get it up just add "connections" by signing in with your email user name and password and your good to go! Any questions comment... I'll help if I can :)

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http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/


Good luck!
Jill