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TheBB
11-15-2004, 5:38 PM
I would like to make an ode to Trillian (www.ceruleanstudios.com), just the best ¤%& chat client there is.

I just got Trillian Pro v. 3 Alpha and, despite it being an alpha release, I have had excactly nil problems with it. It's just so damn cool and hip I'm talking to people just for the sake of using the damn thing. :P

The only things I have to complain about are these:

1. Did they get rid of the custom containers? Apparently not, it's still there in preferences, but it seems not to be working correctly. My windows are being contained all right, but not entirely the way I want it. Only a minor issue though.

2. Trillian looks up every word I write in Wikipedia, and underlines with a nice dotted line those that come up with matches. Great for english users, probably, but not for norwegians. It just told me one of my friends was the plural form of a geological formation on the moon. Wtf? Way to learn lots of trivia though. :P

Carnage
11-15-2004, 6:38 PM
Mleh. Big whoop. :P

Mattimeo
11-15-2004, 6:58 PM
What, is your friend named Maria?

~Don't Panic

Thereisnocowlevel
11-15-2004, 7:18 PM
Please forgive my ignorance, but...er...
What's Trillian? Some sort of chat client?

Semi
11-15-2004, 8:58 PM
Yes it is.

I like the plugins such as spellcheck and news.

BSTRhino
11-15-2004, 10:07 PM
How do they intend the looking-up-every-word-in-wikipedia feature to be useful? What's the point of it?

Wick3d
11-15-2004, 10:43 PM
Gaim>trillian

gaim.sourceforge.net

Schwitzer
11-15-2004, 10:53 PM
I love Trillian; it's awesome.

Haven't looked into Gaim much, personally...

OboeGuru
11-15-2004, 11:18 PM
You can turn off the Wikipedia lookup in the Message Window pane of Preferences.

My only real peeve with the containers is that it doesn't resize to fit your message windows sizes, it shrinks them oodles.

The only shame of it being an alpha release is that all the functionality isn't built-in yet. Like all the IRC commands aren't accessible yet by dialog box, which is annoying when you're an Op. :Þ
I just wish my network was more encompassing than just home so I could use the Rendezvous protocol. :)

GrassDragon
11-16-2004, 12:10 AM
I do Adium

www.adiumx.com

Yeah it's Mac only :P

TheBB
11-16-2004, 3:01 AM
What, is your friend named Maria?

~Don't Panic

Right you are.

I'll leave the Wiki feature on - amazing what you learn from it.

Did you know that there is/was a tribe in Tanzania called "Hehe"? :D

Xenon
11-16-2004, 8:05 AM
My Trillian refuses to save chat logs for some crazy reason. No history. So I stopped using it.

Fenguin
11-16-2004, 5:52 PM
I've used Miranda, Gaim, and Trillian. And I have to say, Trillian is by far the best of the three. The activity history in 3 pro is amazing. I wish there was a prettyprint math plugin for Trillian though, like the kind I used to use in Miranda. xD

By the way both Miranda and Gaim [at least for Windows] were very buggy at times. Also Miranda's AIM plugin sucks.