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Trillian Astra Web Release

Posted by Sunira under new technology

A good portion of my daily communications is through e-mail and IM, and I’ve become comfortable using my IM client as an e-mail notifier.  Because my friends, family and co-workers are all spread across so many different networks and protocols, I wind up having to use services like Meebo, Pidgin, or Miranda to be able to appear online on all my accounts without having 4-5 different applications running at once.  I took advantage of Trillian a couple years ago until Pidgin/Gaim came about because pidgin offered almost every utility that Trillian offered at a faster speed and for free.  Recently, though, Trillian has once again piqued my interest. The makers of Trillian, Cerulean Studios, have been working on a new version of Trillian, named Trillian Astra and from what little I’ve been able to scrape from the web articles and home site, it looks like a slick little application that has the potential to outdo it’s rivals and look pretty while doing it.

The web interface is especially nice since the developers are making it work like a web application without the restraints of the actual browser window.  Check it out: