Favorite IM Program?

[iq_132]

I'm not sure if this is Waaay Off-Topic or Tech talk, so I decided I'd put it in Waaay Off just to be safe


I use Trillian and was wondering what other's use..

<a href="http://www.trillian.com">Trillian</a> <br>
<a href="http://www.odigo.org">Odigo</a><br>
<a href="http://www.aim.com">AIM</a><br>
<a href="http://web.icq.com">ICQ</a><br>
<a href="http://messenger.msn.com">MSN/Windows Messenger</a><br>
if you use any others, post what you use.

 

[crhylove]

i have trouble with file xfer in trillian, but it beats hell out of using 5 diff messengers. come 2 think of it i have trouble in msn mess 2 sending files... how do i fix that?

rhy

 

[crhylove]

duh! stupid xp had a firewall on! goodbye file xfer probs!!

rhy

 

[Stezo2k]

MSN Messenger (of course) using the beta of version 5 (looks awesome)

Stez

 

[Malcolm]

trillian all the way. Its too much of a processor/memory load to have MSN/AIM/YAHOO!/ICQ all running @ the same time. Who cares if it doesn't support some of the original clients features

 

[mesman00]

all my friends use aim, and like everyone at my university uses aim, so therefore i use aim.

 

[iq_132]

I actually use Trillian Pro.
It has most of the features that the others do, except possibly video and audio.
But there are plugins for most everything else: weather, Winamp2: now playing, pop3, message forwarding, message splitting, etc.

Oh.. and don't forget skins support.

 

[pj64er]

Miranda

very very very small. Supports both ICQ and MSN (and now YAHOO too). 10th most active sourceforge project atm. did i mention very extensive plugin system?

for those of you thinking of switching, there are plugins to import Trillian, icq, msn contacts..

 

[Acorn]

Trillian all the way, most if not all or more of the features of the orig's, and a condensed interface.

I remember reading about miranda, but I skipped it because of no irc support I think.

Funny, Trillian started out as an IRC client

 

[Eagle]

I use Trillian and mIRC, I dont use Trillian for IRC.

 

[ra5555]

I use icq lite

 

[iq_132]

AT&T IM Anywhere 3.2.0.0671 Beta
Beta Version
Program Type: Freeware

AT&T IM Anywhere is a free multi instant messenger program. It supports AOL, Yahoo, MSN, and ATT Wireless Mobiles. Support for encryption, speech to text, file transfers, email accounts, and more.

http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail.php3?fid=1034140586

Doesn't actually sound too bad...

 

[Falcon4ever]

I use trillian, btw you forgot Yahoo messenger

 

[2fast4u]

trillian all the way (i use trillian pro). i cant propagate it often enuff .. why would u wanna use 5 (!) messenger clients at once if u can use one small program for them all?

trillian is the shit ppl, get it.

 

[Doomulation]

Actually i don't care what i use. And I've got hotmail so i just stick with msn messenger--it's all i need.
And yeah, the xp firewall is shit, get a decent firewall and disable it, since it destroys stuff like file transfers.

Yes, in msn messenger, irc and possible others.

 

[crhylove]

just wanted to clarify:

i use trillian pro, and i use it for everything. even irc, now if only the #romland script would work in trillian... LOL

rhy

 

[Teamz]

Miranda

very very very small. Supports both ICQ and MSN (and now YAHOO too). 10th most active sourceforge project atm. did i mention very extensive plugin system?

for those of you thinking of switching, there are plugins to import Trillian, icq, msn contacts..

i use miranda too and its really nice ;}

 

[Jaz]

MSN.

 

[pj64er]

i use miranda too and its really nice ;}

yes! brotha guess you are the other one that voted for others.

i dont understand how people can say that trillian is small when this thing is only 385kb!

anyway, ive heard a few things about an IM (or an IM protocol, not sure) called Jabber. Do any of you know anything about it? good?

 

[crhylove]

i worked with a version of jabber that had integration with aim/msn/yahoo, that was great, but it's interface was not for n00bz, and also, it being open source would get shut down to aol access constantly. trillian doesn't have these problems, oh, and for the record, trillian IS pretty damn small considering it's funcitionality.

rhy