Trillian or...

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AIM and MSN or Trillian?

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PLmatt91

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Well, I've been running AIM and MSN Messenger for almost my whole life being on the PC. But I've been using Trillian for the longest time (maybe like 6 months now) And I miss the regular AIM and regular MSN features. Should I go back to AIM and MSN seperately? Still deciding on doing that whether or not..
 
i use AIM with DEADAIM, and i also use MSN only because i can check my email from my start bar and dont haft to go to the site and login. i very rarely chat on msn.
 
what do you mean? Trillian Pro does everything and more than AIM or MSN
 
MSN + AIM(with adhack).

I used Trillian for a while, but the lack of formatting in AIM profiles drove me back to normal AIM and MSN.
 
Seanman
MSN + AIM(with adhack).

I used Trillian for a while, but the lack of formatting in AIM profiles drove me back to normal AIM and MSN.
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thats why you use Trillian Pro which allows for much more sophisticated profiles
 
Miranda is nice as well. But, if you want total compatibility, Trillian Pro.
 
trillian is not good software, really buggy and not 100% compatable. Id just download MSN for FREE
AIM for FREE
DeadAIM 5 bucks
MiRC for FREE


why pay for trillian?
 
I use Trillian for AIM, ICQ and IRC and MSN for everything else. I don't like the trillian interface much and it's always dropping my connection and I pretty much have to restart it to reconnect. I guess I hate Trillian, but I don't want to download seperate AIM and ICQ and IRC clients when I only use these programs for purely chatting. And my contact list for all 3 of those programs is about 1/4 my msn list.
 
If I am at home, I use ICQ, MSN, Skype and Yahoo!

If I am out somewhere and using a public computer (IE at an internet cafe) I use Miranda Portable.
 
Well, I still don't know. I think I might go back to the AIM and MSN themselves. And Trillian Pro for $25... I'll "pass" on that ;) I'll try it "out" for now and we'll see later.
 
Has anyone tried AIM Triton? I haven't seen it, but I have a feeling that it's just more ads and flashy features.

For Windows, I'd say AIM 5.9 (classic). I'm annoyed at a few things, but transfers are mostly reliable and it gets the job done.
 
dougiemeats
Has anyone tried AIM Triton? I haven't seen it, but I have a feeling that it's just more ads and flashy features.

For Windows, I'd say AIM 5.9 (classic). I'm annoyed at a few things, but transfers are mostly reliable and it gets the job done.
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I think I've tried it before, and the feature that stuck out the most was the free XM Radio. :drool:
 
Duċk;2453516
I think I've tried it before, and the feature that stuck out the most was the free XM Radio. :drool:
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I'd rather pay the $15 a month isntead of listening to crappy 16kbps audio streams.


AIM Triton sucks. No more direct connect, it's a memory hog, and has ads galore. If I were you, I'd go for AIM 5.9.
 
Integra Type R
I'd rather pay the $15 a month isntead of listening to crappy 16kbps audio streams.


AIM Triton sucks. No more direct connect, it's a memory hog, and has ads galore. If I were you, I'd go for AIM 5.9.
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16kbps? They sounded like at least 128kbps...
 
I assumed that it was the same "free xm radio" that is 16kbps that you can listen to with Winamp (Nullsoft is owned by AOL).
 
Integra Type R
I'd rather pay the $15 a month isntead of listening to crappy 16kbps audio streams.


AIM Triton sucks. No more direct connect, it's a memory hog, and has ads galore. If I were you, I'd go for AIM 5.9.
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You're not the only one.

I went back to AIM and MSN for now. Happy I did. Works a little better on this computer now than Trillian did.
 
Ebiggs
I also use Gaim (in Windows). It doesn't like to do file transfers well, but I rarely need it to.
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I'll add another vote for Gaim, I use it in both Windows at work and Ubuntu at home. File transfer can be slow, but like Ebiggs I hardly ever use it.
 
Same here, I use Gaim now since reading the origional reccomendation. MSN didn't work at first, but I got the new beta to fix that. 👍 Pretty good software.
 
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