Date: 2008-11-02 11:52:02 Created: null
Trillian is yet another of those wonderful free (as in beer for those concerned about that) programs you probably didn't know you needed until you tried them. What Trillian does is communicate, connecting to IRC, MSN Messenger, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo, all in one program. Even better, the one program is totally free of ads, small and fast and completely skinnable with lots of great-looking skins available. Sometimes the wait gets a bit long between versions, but remember there are only two guys working on Trillian, and the new versions are always worth the wait.
Oh, go ahead and give it a try! I'll be here when you get back. And don't worry about problems transfering, Trillian can import all your contacts and stuff for you (at least from ICQ, I haven't really used the others).
If you like the program you can donate money to support development and get a registration code and a warm feeling inside for it. There's no difference at all between a registered and unregistered copy, just the knowledge that you're supporting development and your name in a dialog box in the preferences. I think you'll find Trillian worthy of some encouragement, nowadays I only go back to ICQ when I have to, because not all functions of ICQ are in Trillian yet. I think that's just a question of time though.
And there are so many things that Trillian does that ICQ doesn't as well. Look great, for example, without a single ugly ad anywhere in sight. Starts fast too, and logs everything you want in nice plain text files for your viewing pleasure.
July 14, 2002.
Today I finally seem to have got ICQ file transfers work in Trillian. I have a vague memory of it working sometime before, in a misty past, but for most of the time my inability to get file transfers working has been a major problem and inhibition in my Trillian usage. Tons of searching on forums and other places mostly produced answers about opening the right ports in the router and so on, things I've already done. Today I made another tour of the support forums, finding more of the same stuff. What I did find that was new to me was a note in passing about opening ports from 1000 to 1500. It didn't seem to apply to me, because as far as I've noticed Trillian uses the port interval I've set it to plus, for some reason I can't figure out, another much lower port that I've opened for it as well. But why not try I thought, and opened the additional ports. It worked! I don't know why, but it does and I'm happy :-) ... I even seem to be allowed to do secure IM and still have the transfers work, another note said that might cause problems so I tried disabling it at the same time as I opened the ports.
Later July 14
Back to the drawing board. It worked sending to Bonnie, but not to Martin ... Something with sending to "real" ICQ clients then?