Hi mao,
Thank you for another interesting question. Trillian is very popular and Freeware.
Trillian is a multinetwork chat client that currently supports mIRC,
AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo Messenger. It supports docking, multiline
edit boxes, buddy alerts, multiple connections to the same medium, a
powerful skinning language, easy importing of your existing contacts,
skinnable emoticons, logging, global away/invisible features, and a
unified contact list. It has a direct connection for AIM, support for
user profiles, complete type formatting, buddy icons, proxy support,
emotisounds, encrypted instant messaging to ICQ and AIM, AIM group
chats, and shell extensions for file transfers.
Trillian - A chat client for Windows that allows you to simultaneously
connect to AIM, ICQ, IRC, MSN and Yahoo! Messenger.
The award-winning, multi-network Trillian IM client allows you to
seamlessly integrate all of your communications traffic in a single,
sleek package. Stay in touch with contacts spanning multiple networks
and grab the latest news, stocks, and other information with our
versatile array of plugins.
Minimum requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP
Screenshots:
http://www.trillian.cc/products/screenshots_basic.php
Download Trillian Basic (0.74i)
http://www.download.com/Trillian/3000-2150-10047473.html?part=dl-trillian&subj=dl&tag=button
The current version of Trillian Basic is 0.74i. It is available free
of charge with no ads and no spyware.
Download link:
http://www.download.com/3001-2150-10148311.html
**Note**
Download the Trillian Basic Patch I: You can either click on Download
Patches, or on the right side of the page TOP DOWNLOADS.
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
Trillian Basic Patch I
Trillian 0.74 users should apply patch I to address a recent
connectivity problem. You must be using 0.74 to use this patch.
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Trillian Messenger Center
http://www.bigblueball.com/im/trillian/default.asp
Introducing the Trillian Messenger Center
I've been extolling the virtues of Trillian for over a year. Everyone
who has ever used more than one messenger has probably wished for a
simpler solution: a single program that would let them connect to all
their IM buddies. Trillian is that program.
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I don't know much about it, however Miranda IM might also be a program
you'd like. It's also freeware.
http://www.miranda-im.org/
Miranda IM is a multi protocol instant messenger client. Miranda IM is
designed to be resource efficient and easy to use. It uses very little
memory and requires no installation. Just unzip and run! This also
makes it ideal for users that want to run their messenger client from
a removable storage such as an USB memory stick. It can even be stored
on a floppy disc if not too many plugins are used.
The powerful plugin system makes Miranda IM extremely flexible. Only
the most basic features are built in, but there are currently more
than 200 plugins available for download that allows users to extend
the functionality in Miranda IM. Plugins can be installed to add
support for ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, Netsend and
other protocols.
Miranda IM is published under the GPL license and is free of charge.
Miranda IM supports Windows NT4, 95, 98, Me, 2000, XP & 2003.
Customise your Miranda IM with Plugins, Sounds, Icons and more!
http://www.miranda-im.org/download/
Screenshots
http://www.miranda-im.org/about/screenshots.php
Download Miranda IM 0.3.3.1
http://www.miranda-im.org/release/download.php
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And lastly, Gaim - also one I'm not familiar with.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD,
MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC
protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and
Zephyr networks.
Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks
simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on
AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and
sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as file
transfer (coming soon), away messages, typing notification, and MSN
window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides
many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which
give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a
program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from
idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker,
extended message notification, iconify on away, and more.
Gaim runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and
Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).
Gaim integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1's system tray, as well
as Windows's own system tray. This allows you to work with Gaim
without requiring the buddy list window to be up at all times.
Gaim is under constant development, and releases are usually frequent.
The latest news regarding Gaim can be found on the news page.
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/index.php
Screenshots (click on images to enlarge)
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
Downloads
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/downloads.php
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I recently answered a similar question: On-Line Messaging systems.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=366867
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Best regards,
tlspiegel |
