Trillian Pro comes with a year's worth of updates and gives you access to email technical support as well as the excellent user-to-user message forums. What else does your $25 (~£16) buy you? Support. Corporate users, unfortunately, might never succeed. As with previous versions, Trillian Pro still has trouble both sending and receiving files across a firewall, so you may have to manually tweak your router or software firewall to get Trillian to properly transfer files. Security, always a concern in instant messengers, isn't much better in Trillian Pro than in its free sister software, but the service adds 128-bit encrypted messaging when you chat with other Trillian users (free or Pro) over AOL and ICQ. So far, Trillian Pro offers only nine plug-ins (check them out on Cerulean Studios’ site), but we're eagerly awaiting more. To give Trillian more functionality, you can download small, free add-ons that provide a variety of services - including notifying you of new mail in your POP3 accounts, grabbing headlines from news feeds, and even integrating a Winamp toolbar for fast access to tunes. You can list and define certain words then, when one appears in a message, Trillian can highlight it for emphasis, automatically insert a replacement (great for deciphering wacky nicknames that friends sometimes use), or even pop up an alert.īut Trillian Pro's sweetest enticement is its new plug-in feature. Trillian Pro also offers a tool called Word Matching. If Kathy uses MSN, ICQ, Yahoo and AOL, for instance, you can see on the Metacontacts that she's online, and on which service or services. Our favourites include the new Metacontacts, a high-level list that represents all the IM services your correspondents use. Trillian Pro includes plenty of enhancements and features - more than enough to justify the asking price.
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By comparison, AIM uses about the same amount, while the full version of ICQ uses about 6MB. Impressively, Trillian Pro consumed just 5MB of memory on our test Windows XP Home Edition system - only about 1MB more than the regular version.
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The new version sports a more colourful interface, but like the free version, it's still skinnable, meaning you can download and install various new looks and themes. Trillian Pro installs in just a few moments, and if you're upgrading from an earlier free edition, the program will retain all your IM accounts and contacts. Buying Trillian Pro is the hardest task you'll encounter with this application - you can only pay via PayPal for now.
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