![]() Trillian Astra is the next major version of Trillian (still in beta). There are plugins for the weather, for reading RSS feeds, checking your email and much more. There is an extensive third-party developer network that creates plugins to extend the functionality of Trillian Pro (sorry, plugins won't work the Trillian Basic). This works great when you have contacts with multiple accounts on different networks, and makes it easier for you to tame your contact list. These meta contacts allow you to collect all the accounts of an individual under one name - and you can give it a name that is meaningful to you. To solve this problem, Trillian introduced the concept of meta contacts. Keeping it all straight can be a challenge. One of the challenges with most multi-protocol IM programs is that you have contacts with multiple accounts on multiple networks. There is a crowd of people who have developed custom “skins” for Trillian that make it look like other IM programs or give it personality. There are several features that really make Trillian stand out. Trillian Pro adds support for additional protocols via plugins: Since that time, Trillian has expanded multi-protocol IM support to include a range of instant messaging networks, including: Trillian 0.6 marked a change in direction, adding the ability for Trillian to connect to AIM, MSN and ICQ. Trillian was first developed as a free IRC client, but didn't achieve popularity until version 0.6 was released in November, 2000. Trillian is a multi-protocol instant messaging program for Windows, that currently comes in two versions - a free, basic version appropriately called Trillian Basic and an enhanced, commercial version called Trillian Pro.
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