magicchex
Fuckin' your bitches and stealin' your cars since 1985.   SSHOLE |
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7/20/2005 at 23:52 |
I've been using Trillian for quite a while now but the newest version is very unstable, and now even after an uninstall and reinstall, it crashes for me. I'm taking this opportunity to try out GAIM.
What are your personal experiences with these two AIM applications? Are there any other applications that users use? Share anything you can about these sort of programs to give me some feedback before I make a decision.
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nocal
It's insane, this guy's taint  SSHOLEPosts: 833 Registered: 8/25/2004 Offline
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7/21/2005 at 01:07 |
I use Gaim (related note: I once had someone refuse to download it cuz it sounds like "gay'm" LOLOL). Besides the fact that the skins refuse to load, it has some cool features and is very stable. Come to think of it, I don't know that I've ever had it crash.
Tabbed chatting is cool, logs conversations, can have multiple accounts signed on in the same buddy list window, and a bunch of other nit-picky add-ons. I think it's not succeptible to those faggot ass AIM viruses as well, which is a plus in the university environment. |
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magicchex
Fuckin' your bitches and stealin' your cars since 1985. SSHOLEPosts: 561 Registered: 1/5/2005 Offline
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7/21/2005 at 02:07 |
nocal: Tabbed chatting is cool, logs conversations, can have multiple accounts signed on in the same buddy list window, and a bunch of other nit-picky add-ons. I think it's not succeptible to those faggot ass AIM viruses as well, which is a plus in the university environment.
I realized what was wrong with my Trillian and fixed it although now I am looking for an older version that's more stable still. Trillian has all those features too, one of my favorite other than the tabbing and logging is definitely the multiple accounts. I have too many buddies to fit on one list so that way I can have 200+ and still message them from the same SN.
I tried installing Gaim earlier, and it didn't run as "smooth" as Trillian. Seemed less intuitive and more clunky. If I can find the older version of Trillian (Pre 3.1), I'm going to go back to that.
EDIT: I'm having a problem with Trillian. It used to be, if I was docked and always on top, and maximized any other windows, they would only maximize to the edge of the buddy list. It no longer does this. I found only one thread on the support forums about this issue, and the fix they suggested did not work for me. Has anyone encountered this? I understand it's a mixture of bugs between Windows and Trillian in handling a docked window but I can't seem to fix it. Does anyone have any clue how I might go about fixing this?
[Edited on 21/7/2005 by magicchex] |
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nocal
It's insane, this guy's taint SSHOLEPosts: 833 Registered: 8/25/2004 Offline
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7/21/2005 at 02:25 |
I think that happens with AIM too, and I thought that it was by design. If it's "always on top" and docked...then when you maximize other windows without that priority, well then, they don't cover the docked buddy list. |
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government_death_robot
DARTH MENSES  Posts: 953 Registered: 4/23/2004 Offline
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7/21/2005 at 02:28 |
I've used GAIM and Trillian.
Both seem fine to me, but I'd go with GAIM.
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magicchex
Fuckin' your bitches and stealin' your cars since 1985. SSHOLEPosts: 561 Registered: 1/5/2005 Offline
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7/21/2005 at 02:39 |
nocal: I think that happens with AIM too, and I thought that it was by design. If it's "always on top" and docked...then when you maximize other windows without that priority, well then, they don't cover the docked buddy list.
Exactly. That's what I WANT and it used to do it. It no longer does. Sorry for the confusion. |
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