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I’ve been using Trillian for a long time now - ever since I realised that a bunch of my stubborn friends wouldn’t come and use ICQ with me. I never liked MSN, and I sure as hell wasn’t going to have two contact lists open at once, so Trillian was the right program at the right time. It wasn’t without its problems of course - I often had (and still have) issues with Trillian 3.1 - messages not getting through, clunky performance, and such. That said, it has still been the communications hub of my computer for years now and I can’t imagine life without it. One thing that has bugged me more recently though is the lack of development updates. Trillian 4, codenamed Astra, was announced some time ago, but it was only when I awoke this morning, a few months after the announcement, that I found a preview site had finally been launched. It sure explains the lack of updates.
It’s generally accepted that anyone who owns a Mac must, by definition, also own an iPod. If the halo-effect for the iPod is also accepted then it’s also possible that the iPod owner started with a PC and then switched to a Mac. Either way if you have a Mac then you must also have an iPod because if you don’t then you can’t be a real Mac person. Or something like that. Regardless I’ve gone through over 3-years of PowerBook ownership without owning an MP3 player of any variety (my wife has a 1GB iPod Shuffle but that doesn’t count) but a couple of weeks ago following the “