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.
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.
This version fixes many bugs, adds some new features, and makes things faster across the board.
The main new features are:
- New Windows 8 theme
- New sign in window
- Trillian group chats with @mentions, topics, ops/voice, display names, flags
- Per-contact muting
- Do not disturb
- Full changelog can be found here
Download: Trillian 5.5 Build 11 Beta | 15.4 MB (Freeware)
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