Trillian 3.0 was released
yesterday (non-beta). I've been using Trillian as my IM for about 2 years
and love it. I purchased the Pro version after about 6 months of
use. But with the new upgrade to 3.0 I will have to put down another $25
for the Pro version. Is it worth it? Not yet since it's still new
and I'll let them work out the leftover bugs but I'm sure I'll upgrade in the
near future.
Even though I now only login to MSN (nobody on my contact list uses AIM
or ICQ anymore) I still use Trillian. Technically I could just use MSN and
be OK but then I would be hassled with all the MSN stuff plus lose all of
the features I love about Trillian:
- Small lightweight skins so it doesn't take up much room.
- Containers for message windows...MDI.
- Message history written to a log file so I can go back and re-read a
conversation or retrieve a link that was sent to me.
- GMail Plug-in notifies me when I've not new Gmail.
- The main thing - I can rename my contacts to whatever I want so I know
who's who. With MSN, the contact's name is what they
decide. For me, "Commander Keen" is cool and creative but it doesn't let
me know that it's Dave who
works on Autonomy. So I just rename his name to "Dave (Autonomy)"
and I'm a happy camper.