# You got chocolate in my peanut butter! You got AIM in my ICQ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 13, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter-you-got-aim-in-my-icq/68659 "2001-06-13T13:07:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Simetra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Simetra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simetra)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter-you-got-aim-in-my-icq/68659/1 "2001-06-13T13:07:20Z")
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](http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/). 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. \ Thousand for WinAmp alone. \ Sorry if it’s been posted before, but I know most of you have at least two of these, so… thought it might help. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter-you-got-aim-in-my-icq/68659/2 "2001-06-13T13:14:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter-you-got-aim-in-my-icq/68659/3 "2001-06-13T16:45:46Z")
MacOS X has one like that called “Fire”. I knew there was a PC version but I didn’t remember the name. ---
**Author:** ![Jeeves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@Jeeves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeeves)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2001, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter-you-got-aim-in-my-icq/68659/4 "2001-06-13T23:36:57Z")
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. Jeeves ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter-you-got-aim-in-my-icq/68659/5 "2001-06-15T06:24:53Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter-you-got-aim-in-my-icq/68659/6 "2001-06-15T06:59:12Z")
I’ve been using Trillian for about a month now with no problems 🙂 Much easier than running ninety-eleven programs. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2001, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-got-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter-you-got-aim-in-my-icq/68659/7 "2001-06-15T08:00:28Z")
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.