Elessar Barton

You may be asking yourself ‘what is Trillian?’ Well, you came to the right place, whether by chance or on purpose.

“Trillian is a fully featured, stand-alone, skinnable chat client that supports AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo Messenger, and IRC. It provides capabilities not possible with original network clients, while supporting standard features such as:

* audio chat
* file transfers
* group chats
* chat rooms
* buddy icons
* multiple simultaneous connections to the same network
* server-side contact importing
* typing notification
* direct connection (AIM)
* proxy support
* encrypted messaging (AIM/ICQ)
* SMS support, and privacy settings

Without stealing your home page and with no other included software, pop-ups, or spyware, Trillian provides unique functionality such as:

* contact message history
* a powerful skinning language
* tabbed messaging
* global status changes (set all networks away at once)
* Instant Lookup (automatic Wikipedia integration)
* contact alerts
* an advanced automation system to trigger events based on anything happening in the client
* docking, hundreds of emoticons, emotisounds, shell extensions for file transfers, and systray notifications”

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