Trillian Astra: Build 83 Progress

The latest update

Published on July 21, 2008 By Island Dog In Personal Computing

Trillian Astra, the long awaited update to Trillian which is still in alpha testing has been updated to Build 83. Trillian Astra is still in private invite mode, and no word on when a public beta or final release is scheduled. I'm hoping to get some more info soon, but in the meantime I wanted to touch on the Build 83 update which is detailed ont he Cerulean Studios' blog.

Facebook support: Trillian Astra now includes some basic Facebook integration which includes status updates, news feeds, etc. Great start.

IRC: IRC is back! IRC was previously removed and due to community feedback they have enabled it again with new features.

Notifiers updated: Notifiers in Trillian Astra have been updated with a much cleaner look and functionality.

If you have access to the beta, what are your impressions of the newest build?

Thanks to ShelbyGT for the tip!

Comments (Page 2)

Astyanax

on Jul 28, 2008

I used Trillian for a long time but eventually lost my love for it for not having skinning on the fly. If Astra suppports this, then it would perk my intrest back to using it.

It does, you don't have to restart anymore for skins to change. Also the skin files in 3.0 did use PNG but for some reason it required the pink magic trick.... no longer needed with Astra, they finally added the ability to use proper transparency with PNG formats.

squigglethecow

on Jul 28, 2008

use Digsby, it has facebook support, as well as myspace im. You can log onto multiple social networks (and multiple accounts per network) at the same time seperate from IM's. Then it has support for all the IM's you can think of (even google chat).

Great program, not beta. I used trillian for a long time but digsby is way ahead.

elvee

on Jul 28, 2008

I used Trillian for a long time but eventually lost my love for it for not having skinning on the fly. If Astra suppports this, then it would perk my intrest back to using it.

It does, you don't have to restart anymore for skins to change. Also the skin files in 3.0 did use PNG but for some reason it required the pink magic trick.... no longer needed with Astra, they finally added the ability to use proper transparency with PNG formats.

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