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With the growth and popularity of the flash drive, portable apps seem to be everywhere. Now you can add chatting online to the portable application phenomenon. Originally, IMers had to make do with the online versions of AIM and Yahoo IM which were limited in their scope or were blocked by schools. A later alternative was to go to http://www.meebo.com and login and chat that way. Today, we have one of the grails of Instant Messaging that you can run right from your flash drive: Portable Trillian.

For those that don’t know what Trillian is, it is an all-in-wonder IM service. It combines AIM, YIM, MSN IM, IRC, and ICQ in one neat little app as well as plugin and custom skin support. The team at Trillian Anywhere (http://www.trilliananywhere.com/) have provided step by step instructions on how to make the application portable. I’ve used this myself and it works like a charm. The total amount of space needed is only the amount of space Trillian uses. The site gives instructions on how to perform this with both the Pro and Basic versions.

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4 Responses to “Trillian To Go”

1. fak3r Says:
   February 17th, 2007 at 9:46 am

   Nice post, another place to look for apps is Portableapps.com. They you can find other options for portable chatting, namely Miranda or the mighty Gaim, now at 2.0. Check the site for plenty more apps like Gimp, Firefox, OpenOffice of even utilities like ClamAV.

2. fak3r Says:
   February 17th, 2007 at 9:52 am

   …oh, and as an aside, if you’re like me and you work somewhere that doesn’t allow you to install much, and you can’t live w/o things like Gaim, Gimp and so on, you can always slap these ‘portable apps’ in some out of the way directory. I have mine in /usr/local under cygwin - along with the GNU tools that cygwin provide, it gives me *almost* everything I need to have my Windows feel/work more like Linux. And to that end, BB4win, or Blackbox for Windows, is essential for my sanity, perhaps it’ll help yours!

3. deryl Says:
   February 17th, 2007 at 12:34 pm

   I think that its a great idea and we nedd more Apps like this so that we can make the world more mobile.

4. egon Says:
   February 17th, 2007 at 6:03 pm

   I used to love Trillian, but it started crashing my computer frequently so I uninstalled it. I started using Meebo and never looked back.

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