A Sneak Peek At Trillian 3.0

7 Nov, 2004 at 5:20pm ET Article published in Tech

The Trillian instant messaging (IM) application will feature several enhancements in its upcoming version 3.0, including new video and audio chat capabilities, enhanced IM session logs, and integration with the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, according to information posted Friday on the product developer’s Web site.

Trillian, developed by Cerulean Studios, is an application that consolidates in a single interface IM contacts from a variety of IM services, such as America Online’s AIM, Yahoo’s Yahoo Messenger, and Microsoft’s MSN Messenger. Because most IM services don’t interoperate with each other, it’s necessary to log on separately to each IM network to communicate with its members. While Trillian doesn’t solve the interoperability problem, it does prevent users from having to keep an IM buddy-list interface open for each network. The much-anticipated version 3.0 of Trillian went into public alpha testing on Friday, wrote Scott Werndorfer, Cerulean Studios’ cofounder and head developer, in an entry to the company’s blog Also on Friday, the company posted a sneak preview of Trillian 3.0’s new features and enhancements in its home page.

Source: PC World

Comments

7 Nov 2004 ~ 9:35pm Medlock I wish trillian had the smilies for each chat client... I actually use Trillian to chat on msn and aim, and yahoo for the smilies and IMVironments. I just LOVE yahoo's smilies!
8 Nov 2004 ~ 1:06am Lord_Night Been using Trillian now for a long time. there is a mod you can get that has the smilies.
I wil see if I cna find it. have it somewhere on this multiplex of hdd's I have hooked up. LOL.
8 Nov 2004 ~ 2:14am BLuKnight Well, I installed Trillian 3.0 Pro this weekend. It's nice. However, I'm still waiting for webcam compatibility with MSN 6.2. Trillian is an awesome product and this new version is definately better than 2.0. I'll reserve judgement until the final release.
8 Nov 2004 ~ 5:25pm Medlock

Lord_Night wrote:

Been using Trillian now for a long time. there is a mod you can get that has the smilies.
I wil see if I cna find it. have it somewhere on this multiplex of hdd's I have hooked up. LOL.

Plugins are only for Trillian pro...
8 Nov 2004 ~ 7:51pm TheSmJ I just started using Trillian last night. Now that I've changed the skin to something less "loud", I like it more than the ad-hacked version of AIM I was using prior.