Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Instant Messaging - Trillian and Mundu

Further to Carol's entry regarding "Instant Messaging -an almost newbie's experience", I looked into the world of "all in one" IM interfaces. I have downloaded Trillian and here is my review. As an avid user of ICQ and MSN, the user is allowed to keep some of the most important features of each program. Of particular, the emoticons and avatars are highlights for myself. The whole notion that there is less clutter with the use of one window being open helps. Chat windows are tabbed, you no longer find yourself lost with an onslaught of windows popping up when you log in. It's been ages since I've used irc but now that it's readily available to me here on Trillian along with AIM and Yahoo messenger, I think I'll be giving them a try as well. It's a fantastic product as you can sign on to all the IM programs or simply the ones you choose. File transers, audio chat and group chats still exist. I have just found another program called Mundu http://wireless.mundu.com/ that is an all in one interface for IM but it is for use on PDA's. It supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN and ICQ. Mundu works on 3.5 and above Palm OS enabled device. I will be downloading this and giving it a good try. More to come...

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