I have been testing the free version of Trillian the last week or so. It is nice to have all your chat contacts in a single view across the main providers, and to have a log of past conversations is very powerful.

I have also upgraded from 3.0.x to the new version 4.08 of X1 running with no problems. The upgrade was pretty painless except that some of indexes needed to be redone. X1 does a great job of posting their detailed release notes to see what is new in their version releases.

Since Microsoft has relased Lookout 1.2 for ‘free’ since buying the product, I loaded that up for a head-to-head evaluation. It competes with X1 in the personal serach marketplace. It seems to work as advertised. I do like X1’s ability to preview content once you find something instead of having to open it up like Lookout does.