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Trillian tip: Tear off some buddies
by Jordan Running Aug 6th 2006 at 10:53AM
I stumbled across a cool feature in Trillian Pro today completely by accident. I was trying to rearrange some contacts when I accidentally dragged one of them outside of my buddy list, which created a second, mini-buddy-list. I'm sure this isn't new to everybody, but it's new to me, and I thought it was cool. Just click and drag any contact, meta-contact, or contact group off of your buddy list and drop it elsewhere on your desktop, and now those contacts will be available in a little collapsible, dockable list of their own. I realize that half the reason for using Trillian is to get rid of multiple buddy lists, but this seems handy for keeping certain contacts available while you've got the rest of the buddy list hidden away. I'm not sure if the free version of Trillian has this feature--can anybody confirm?
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Joe Beaulaurier said 11:29AM on 8-06-2006
I have the latest free version of Trillian and am unable to do what you describe. Even as I drag a group of contacts outside the Trillian window, the focus stays on the Trillian window. All that can be accomplished is moving within the same list.
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CJ said 12:22PM on 8-06-2006
I've used the paid version of Trillian since the time they were beta-testing the original and I donated to the project. And even with all that stick time under my belt, I didn't know you could do that.
Cool.
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