Not much time to post or read this morning, but I did find an interesting little product that a lot of you might want to use. It’s called Trillian.
It takes AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC lists and compiles them all into one format. For those of you who run all of them like I do, this could make your life a whole lot easier. Plus, it’s skinable, and you know how much we all love da skins. <cough> Thousand for WinAmp alone. <cough>
Sorry if it’s been posted before, but I know most of you have at least two of these, so… thought it might help.
There was a program like this called “Odigo” floating around for a while…first it crashed my system three times, then AIM refused to sign on through it because it was “unlicensed software.”
If anyone has luck with this thing for more than a week, PLEASE let me know…I’m all about some simplification…but I refuse to try to myself. Too much bad luck, believe me.
I have been using Trillian for a couple of days now and haven’t run into any problems. After I configured it to my liking, I had to change suprisingly few default selections, it’s been really great to use. May it work for a long time.
I have a friend who uses Trillian. We found out that when using Trillian to talk to someone using ICQ causes the ICQ user to get a message that a direct connection could not be established and gives 4 options: Send Thru Server, Send Later, Retry or Cancel. This happened with every message sent to the Trillian user, and with every ICQ user he tried it with.
I tried it when I read this thread. I didn’t like the user interface totally, but was able to IM with people on YM, AIM and ICQ. Unfortunately, it crashed about 3 times in 1/2 an hour, so I went back to the individual programs.
