Cerulean Studios - (Freeware)
Supporting multiple messaging tools on its interface, Trillian became a favorite among the users that need to communicate with people from different network.
Trillian is an instant multi-protocol messaging client. It helps user to complete setting up his account and profile, and supports most protocols: Astra, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo!, Google Talk, ICQ, AOL Messenger, Facebook, MySpaceIM, Skype, Jabber, Twitter, Hello and the POP3 and IMAP accounts.
Multiple skins and themes are at users disposal as well as all conventional instant messaging tools. This way the user can consolidate all his contacts, regardless of their communication network.
The strength of Trillian is to integrate into a single interface all contacts. To recognize their origin, a small logo of the network from which each is connected can be found. In advanced mode, user can even connect to all networks simultaneously.
Like most messaging tools, the user can initiate discussions vocal line with his interlocutor. By connecting a webcam, user can activate the video chat, the software supporting videoconferencing of discussing with several contacts at the same time.
# Facebook chat.
* A change on the Facebook side meant that international users suddenly started seeing junk characters in their chat messages instead of properly encoded characters. This has been fixed
# Mail.
* With Outlook.com now supporting the popular IMAP protocol, Trillians ability to monitor these email accounts has improved leaps and bounds. See your full mail preview, mark messages as spam, delete messages, etc. In addition, weve fixed bugs specific to Yahoo mail, improved our bandwidth consumption when dealing with large messages, and tweaked a few other mail-specific bugs as well.
# In-house servers.
* As more and more of our customers adopt our Trillian Server in-house business solution, were also making sure all of our client software can properly connect to an in-house server. Accomplishes this for the Windows side, making it possible to connect to servers with self-signed TLS certificates and more.
# Message windows.
* A few long-standing bugs have been addressed , including a few very rare corner cases with message window flashing, improvements to group chat windows, fixes to spellcheck, and a few other great tweaks that long-time users will appreciate including the removal of the tooltip in the edit area that annoyed so many of you!
# Twitter.
* Last but not least, our Twitter engine gets a few nice enhancements : see user displaynames and usernames in your stream, fixes for direct messaging, fixes for RTs being cut off, and more.