ok, I use Trillian at work, but I left it running when I left the office today, now I try to sign into yahoo messenger at home and it keeps signing me off because I am still on at work... any suggestions?

3/17/2008 7:27:59 PM

switch to pidgin?

3/17/2008 7:29:00 PM

what?

I mean a suggestion for right now to be able to sign into yahoo

3/17/2008 7:30:07 PM

I don't know anything about Trillian or Yahoo Messenger but could you download Trillian, log in, then log out?

3/17/2008 7:44:35 PM

the problem is the computer at work is going to constantly try to keep logging in everytime you log it off..

[Edited on March 17, 2008 at 7:52 PM. Reason : by log it off I mean knock it off by logging on in another location]

3/17/2008 7:51:52 PM

change your password?

3/17/2008 8:32:39 PM

^ yeah, I thought about that... worked!

3/17/2008 8:41:30 PM

wait i can log onto aim through trillian on as many computers as i want. Like i can have trillian logged in on my desktop and laptop at the same time. Isn't that how aim clients work?

-just realized you said yahoo, i guess the protocol is different. Aim must allow multiple connections whereas yahoo doesn't.

[Edited on March 17, 2008 at 11:42 PM. Reason : .]

3/17/2008 11:41:05 PM

correct.


ok, so thats ONE advantage of aim, we finally found one.

3/17/2008 11:46:39 PM

^yeah plus didn't aol just open up development for the aim protocol or something?

3/17/2008 11:49:31 PM

who uses yahoo IM? Only my parents and old ppl use them. I use AIM mainly, but use MSN for work.

3/18/2008 12:57:48 AM

I find it to be the opposite. Old people and NC State people love AIM. Everyone I know (outside of NC) under 50 uses Yahoo, all my friends from college in Knoxville use yahoo. I didnt really know anyone that used AIM until I moved to Raleigh... I wonder if its a carry over from a lot of people around Raleigh having aol back in the day or something

3/18/2008 2:21:24 PM

i dont use any of it

just give me a call on the phone

3/18/2008 2:23:08 PM

^^I've noticed the same..pretty weird. Everybody I've met outside of NC pretty much uses MSN or Yahoo.. weeeird

3/18/2008 2:41:44 PM

I don't know anyone who uses MSN. I'd say as far as AIM/Yahoo/Google Talk/MySpaceIM the % of my friends that use them are 80/10/5/5

3/18/2008 4:58:08 PM

Yeah i don't really know anyone who uses yahoo/msn. Everyone i know in school and from highschool uses AIM.

3/18/2008 5:15:06 PM

maybe the aol was cheap in NC, flowed like wine, so everyone got hooked

3/18/2008 6:35:45 PM

Quote :

" AOL Instant Messenger: 53 million active users, 195 million total ICQ (“I Seek You”): 15 million active users, 400 million total MSN Messenger: 29 million active users, 155 million total Yahoo! Messenger: 21 million active users "

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~anirudh/history.html

Kinda old, but still valid.

3/18/2008 6:43:22 PM

surprised AIM wasnt higher, everyone used to have it, I just dont many people that kept it once yahoo got up to speed. I really hate AIM, the interface sucks, hate the functions etc. Yahoo just seems a lot "cleaner" to me, looks so much better

3/18/2008 6:50:54 PM

^ i think it's more about the program you use, to use the protocol. I don't know too many people who actually use the official aim client. More people use the aim protocol, so that's the one i use, but in terms of GUI and usability nowadays you can get a variety of programs that will run any instant messaging protocol you want. Like trillian for example will run aim and yahoo at the same time, and the interface is the same.

3/18/2008 6:55:23 PM

not quite the same... there are several functions that you can use on yahoo that you cant use on trillian

3/18/2008 7:12:15 PM

people still use trillian?


join the present dood, switch to pidgin.

3/18/2008 7:24:11 PM

Quote :

"Pidgin does not currently support video and audio conferencing, nor any form of audio/video communication"

3/18/2008 7:26:50 PM

I prefer not to look at the fatties I'm having online sex with

3/18/2008 7:31:49 PM

haha, well aside from that, we use it a lot at work

3/18/2008 7:34:07 PM

PIDGIN.



i use meebo at work.

3/19/2008 12:57:37 AM

ICQ, I remember when that was huge with online gaming back in the day. Now I've switched over to xfire. Sometimes still use ICQ for chat rooms with gaming clans and such, but very rarely.

3/19/2008 1:42:45 AM