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Instant Messenger Madness

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:48 pm
by Iceman
Ok I have MSN Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger and now a friend wants me to get Yahoo Instant Messenger. Do I really have to install all this stuff or is there a program around for Windows XP that will consolidate all of them? I seem to remember something like that for Linux but I need it for XP.

Thanks in advance,
Icey

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 4:55 pm
by BAAL
Trillian will combine them into one interface

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:19 pm
by fliptw

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 5:47 pm
by DCrazy
Miranda++.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 6:18 pm
by Iceman
I got both of them, installed them, and tried them. Trillian wins by light years ...

Thanks for the tips guys.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 8:03 pm
by JMEaT
Trillian is sweet. Check out some of the skins you can get for it.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 8:59 pm
by CDN_Merlin
Aikon 3 skin fro Trillian rules.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 9:27 pm
by Krom
Aikon2 is better. =)

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 9:46 pm
by snoopy
Krom wrote:Aikon2 is better. =)
X2.... Especially after I edited the smileys to get rid of the rediculously big, ugly things that came with it.

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:01 pm
by Xamindar
gaim

Posted: Tue May 03, 2005 11:27 pm
by Pun
trillian will do irc chat too icey.

irc.gamesurge.net #descent3 !

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 6:14 am
by Iceman
O man, cool! I will have to try setting that up tonight bro. Thx :)

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 2:34 pm
by MD-2389
punisher wrote:trillian will do irc chat too icey.

irc.gamesurge.net #descent3 !
So does Miranda IM. Matter of fact, someone even released a new CList dll that allowed floating contacts as well.

http://forums.miranda-im.org/showthread.php?t=1796

btw DCrazy, theres an updated SRAMM up.

http://forums.miranda-im.org/showpost.p ... ostcount=4

Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 4:02 pm
by Matrix
snoopy wrote:
Krom wrote:Aikon2 is better. =)
X2.... Especially after I edited the smileys to get rid of the rediculously big, ugly things that came with it.
x3

Been using it for years
And the spell checker plug-in is real handy =)

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 12:03 am
by Kyouryuu
I use Gaim and have ever since Trillian started nagging at me to register. I like it. The only problem is that the Windows port has some issue with window resizing that crashes it if you resize a window too quickly. :roll:

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 1:32 am
by roid
i think they got rid of that nagging thing in trillian. since i upgraded to version 3 (still free) it hasn't nagged me since.

Posted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:28 am
by Iceman
Yeah, I am using the heck out of it and it has never crashed or asked me to register. Trillian is a great App ...

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 1:19 am
by Kyouryuu
A lot of people say Trillian never nagged them, but it nagged me everyday. The sort of "You're on day 79. Please register!" "You're on day 80, please register!" stuff.

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 1:41 am
by Flabby Chick
Downloaded it and it works great... but alas no Hebrew support. So back to the drawing board. :(

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 10:42 am
by Top Gun
Kyouryuu wrote:A lot of people say Trillian never nagged them, but it nagged me everyday. The sort of "You're on day 79. Please register!" "You're on day 80, please register!" stuff.
What version was this, Kyouryuu? I had version 0.74 for a while and then upgraded to version 3, but I never saw so much as a single advertisement for the full version.

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 10:50 am
by fliptw
Trillian sucks.

why? you need to buy the pro version in order to use plugins.

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 12:57 pm
by Ferno
Why would you want to use plugins?

Posted: Sat May 14, 2005 3:51 pm
by suicide eddie
more up to date skins for trill here, http://www.deviantart.com/

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 12:59 am
by Kyouryuu
.73.x

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 4:56 pm
by MD-2389
Ferno wrote:Why would you want to use plugins?
I dunno, to extend functionality maybe?

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:38 pm
by Ferno
works just fine in it's stock (no plugins) form.

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 8:04 pm
by Iceman
Yeah, it sure does. It needs no plugin to make it work.

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 8:33 pm
by DCrazy
Well, except the Minibrowser to view AIM profiles.

Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 10:46 pm
by Top Wop
Trillian Pro includes a handy plugin that id use to chat on a Lan. But why do I have to pay extra for it?

ANd ever since they turned it into bloatware I moved to Miranda IM and have since appreciated it and never looked back. Oh yea, and the Lan chat protocol is free. ;)

Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 12:23 am
by MD-2389
Iceman wrote:Yeah, it sure does. It needs no plugin to make it work.
Please re-read my post. I said to extend functionality, not make it work. You know, as in add features that aren't already present.