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Support for multiple contact lists (to keep server-side contacts for different accounts on one medium separate)Īt first, this list looks a little short to be paying $25/year for (note, you buy a subscription for a year, but all releases available during that year are available to you in perpetuity), but it is in the plugins that Trillian comes into it's own.

'Members only' section to forums, with discussions on Plugin development amongst other things.

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Graphical bells and whistles, for example transparencies of non active windows (optional!).I know that there is a deal with Microsoft, in exchange for allowing access to the MSN network, Trillian will not allow mass messaging on MSN as it does on other networks.

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Support for multiple connections to a single mediumīefore I mention the Pro only features, I'm taking time out to say that it is true that some of these companies have tried to block Trillian from their IM networks in the past, but these problems have been sorted out now.

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Database of approved skins available free from website.

Lively forums on the Cereulean Studios website, with tips on using the clients and unofficial tech.

There are many differences between these two versions, but first the similarities: Trillian now comes in two flavours, the free version, at the time of writing Trillian 0.74, and the Pro version, currently 2.012. In September of 2002, the Trillian developers released Trillian Pro v1.0, a flavour of Trillian with extended features, intended primarily for corporate use. Trillian is freeware and is under active development - the usual problems plaguing some of the other 'unofficial' clients are quickly taken care of.Įarly February of 2002, AOL declared war on all unauthorized third-party AIM clients - Trillian's developers have released a number of patches in order to circumvent AOL's attempts to shut down the client.

Encryption for AIM, ICQ and [IRC ( DCC) via 128 bit blowfish, key exchange by Diffie-Hellmanīest of all, some of the less persistent unpleasantness simply goes away when adopting a different client.

multiple simultaneous server connections.

Novemand Yahoo! Messenger appeared December 23, 2000. Release of Trillian (supporting only IRC) appeared J- AIM, ICQ and MSN support was added A recently-integrated plug-in architecture will make it much easier to implement support for other chat networks in the futureĭeveloped by Cerulean Studios ( Kevin Kurtz and Scott Werndorfer, art by Ryan Saghir), the first public Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ and Yahoo! Messenger - Trillian attacks the problem of different groups of friends choosing different instant messenging mediums head-on. With support for all the biggies - IRC, MSN

designHazard, who designed Trillian's default skin.As well as being the alias of Tricia McMillan, a character from Douglas Adams' The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Trillian is a win32-based instant messenger client.

The program was named after a fictional character in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.Įxamples of multi-protocol instant messaging clients for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems include Kopete ( KDE) and Gaim ( GNOME). The creators of Trillian have promised to continue to support and maintain a free version of Trillian. The program was originally available only as freeware, until on Septemthe first commercial version of Trillian, Trillian Pro 1.0, was released. For the fictional character, see Trillian (fictional character).Ĭreated by Cerulean Studios, Trillian is an instant messaging application for Windows which can connect to AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! and IRC networks. This article is about the chat client Trillian.

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