Eric Arseneau's Weblog

I have been using Trillian for quite some years now and it works pretty well. Trillian is an IM client that allows me to connect to almost every type of IM service without having multiple clients installed and running. This is the main reason why I have been using it, one IM client all services: Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, IRC, Jabber. Its skinning ability has been quite useful to me, as I am able to use a skin that makes everything very small and therefore uses limited real estate.

However, they have been very slow in putting out updates in the past year or so. I ran into a little blurb in a magazine the other day about an IM client I had not heard of before Qnext. It turns out its pretty cool and seems to work quite well. The biggest kicker is that it is written in Java !!! One complain I have at the moment is that the UI is really driven around this concept of Zones which includes many things other than just IM client related stuff, so its a little more complicated than I would like. I am going to stick with it for a while and see how it goes.

Comments:

I came across Qnext while searching for desktop sharing tools. The features look good, however its download size of 25+ MB looks a bit high. Especially, comparing it with festoon (festooninc.com) + Google Talk combination which can also do screen and application sharing. I have been exploring P2P technology for educational conferencing and would like to know if it can deliver reliability if some people have slow connections. I liked the interface of your blog which is very neat.

Posted by Manish Verma on February 06, 2006 at 02:02 PM PST #

Eric Arseneau's Weblog

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