Yeah, the issues do seem to still be there. I do like it though. It seems that it's cut out a lot of the rubbish from my newsfeed too. There is a button that says comment after I comment on someones post but I'm not sure if that is working. I'll send them an email too after I've had a bit more of a play.
Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi folks. > >I am testing out an app that could or couldn't be an alternative to Adium. > >The name of the program is Trillian and it's available from the Mac App > >store. It's free, but apparently there is a pro version ov it as well, > >though i haven't tested that one. > This app has a whole lot of goodies, like facebook, twitter, and the most > common Instant messaging services like Aim, Icq and MSN and more. > The facebook plugin actually lets you not only chat, but also lets you read > and write posts, like and comment on others posts and see friends and so on. > In the Twitter part, you can see following and followers. The IM part works > like Adium, it has an edit box for you to type your message in, and a html > area where the answer appears. Both are very accessible, although the bug > where in groups mode you can't see more than one page is there. > On the whole, Trillian seems at least to me to be accessible, however there > are some tips and tricks one should be aware of: In the facebook part, if you > want to comment on a certain message, you have to find it and then route the > mouse to it (vo+cmd+f5) then you'll have to click the mouse > (vo+shift+spacebar) to highlight the message. After this, you can right click > on the message (vo+shift+m) and from the popup menu, decide what to do. > Trillian works with Growl so it's actually possible to have Trillian speak > the incoming chat messages, however that seems to be true only when the app > is in the back ground. > The biggest issue this app has is that when in the Facebook or twitter part > of the app, you can't send your own posts to the services. There's an edit > box to type in your message, but there's no send button that VO can see and > the shortcuts for sending don't seem to work. I have filed a bug at the > Cerulian studios bug tracker, so let's see if this gets fixed soon. > Over all, i think Trillian is a nice experience, and hadn't it been for the > fact that i can't send posts to facebook or Twitter, i might actually switch > from Adium to Trillian. > /Krister -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
