Trillan over AIM?

UnknowVector

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Im thinking of switching to trillan, supposedly it has access to the yahoo and AIM networks and many others. Anyone have any experience with it?

I kinda wanna change because I don't like AoL, the aggresive advertising and showers of free 6 month trails that come with EVERYTHING are ticked me off, but the real deciding factor was today. I log on and it says it wants to update to 6.0 from Triton, I looked at the features and said no, it still can run with an older version, and no means no. There are a couple of users on my comp, so AIM decides to try to ask someone else to upgrade it, that person did, and I can't revert it or download the old version. That ticks me off.

Either way, anyone used Trillan? Is it good? Cause I want to try it out
 
Lord_Phoenix

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Try Gaim. Its a linnux that runs practically everything at the same time. Also, no ads or anything. I can run as many AIM accounts as I want, as well as like ICR, IRC, and everything.
 
Duwenbasden

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Just keep in mind that multi-IM like GAIM, Miranda and Trillian are "Jacks of all trades and masters of none".

Personally, I will only pick GAIM (full featured) or Miranda (highly customizable) if I am going to use an Multi-IM. I am extremely negative towards a commercial product that has free and more capable counterparts.
 
sqrage

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Since I got trillian, I haven't thought of switching back to AIM, definitely give it a shot.
 
DDRtists

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I used Trillian, and love it. But I can't use it anymore, it won't work. :(
 
UnknowVector

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Im downloading Trillan now, lets see how this goes.

I like it, one question, is there a way to set a password for the trillan program itself? so another user on my comp couldnt click start -> programs -> trillan and come to my screen complete with connection stats and a global login to all im services? O and is there really no way to make it display itself in the taskbar?
 
sqrage

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>>I like it, one question, is there a way to set a password for the trillan program itself?
Well, you could make a new Identity and make a password on that, Trillian > Connections > Manage Connections > Create New Identity. Then they will need the identity password to use any of your logins.

>>O and is there really no way to make it display itself in the taskbar?
Not sure.
 
UnknowVector

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Thanks for the first one, and I found the second one.

Trillan prefs -> Contact List -> Check the last box under access and position
 
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