Posts Tagged ‘trillian

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I have finally given up on Trillian releasing a new version anytime before the next ice age, and switched to the the messenger client formerly known as GAIM, now known as Pidgin.
Solid, functional, and showing signs that it is in active development. Unlike Trillian, which is slowly becoming the Duke Nukem Forever of messenger clients.
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Trillian, the multi-system messenger program I use, apparently has this really cool new product in development. However, they have taken the Joost approach to releasing things: make it exclusive.
This is making me angry, and I am considering switching back to GAIM, even though I find GAIM clunky and wheezy in it’s latest version.
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In this post, I mimiced the list of tools that Brendon Connelly lists.
I forgot to add some of my personal favourites and additions.

Cygwin: Makes any Windows machine able to run a linux-like terminal
Caffeine. Addicted.
Ethereal: If you are a geek, you need this. Packet-sniffing goodness
Trillian. Yeah, GAIM is open-source, but Trillian is just that much slicker
Firefox. [...]

Firefox goes 1.0. Use the Mirrors please.
US Mirror #1US Mirror #2
However, the site performance tanked immediately.

It will likely be back later. But it is very good to see it so popular.


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