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Skinning the new system is simpler than it has been in previous versions, and skins can be built for just one component, if that's the only screen item for which one feels a personalization yen. I expect a lot of skinning attempts to be made on Trillian Mini, a customizable widget suitable for posting on one's own Web site or in other places that allow a widget.

Powered as is the upcoming Web version by Flash 9, Trillian Mini presents your current online status, user icon, and several other snippets of personal data -- no worries, you get to choose -- on your Web page. There's no current indication that a Mini widget will be made available for Facebook and similar services, but it's an obvious next step.

A few of the nooks and crannies of the interface take a couple of seconds to parse, but make themselves appealing. The "Knowledge Bar" at the top of our chat windows is a nice feature, but it behaved a little strangely in our tests. The idea is that it includes an RSS-style feed from multiple sources, but right now the only feed feeding seems to be the Cerulean Studios blog.

The History tab, on the other hand, was working perfectly; Trillian's always been terrific at managing its messaging archives, and the new system reminds this regular Adium user just how much she's been missing. Meanwhile, a third feature -- automatic linkage of words in chats to Wikipedia -- worked fairly well, which proved useful when discussing the newly ubiquitous Susan Boyle video with friends fellow researchers.

Speed was decent, especially for an early beta. It's not clear that the Twitter option is pulling in my entire tweetstream, but that problem is apt to reside with the microblogging service's notoriously cranky API. Likewise, I found video quality in need of adjustment, but again well within what I'd consider acceptable beta-period parameters. I wasn't able to fully test one of Astra's more unusual features, but what I saw of its support for drawing and pen-mode interfaces was encouraging.

Likewise, I'm excited for the Web version, not least because it's clear from the Cerulean discussion boards that there'll be no Linux-native version of the software until rather later, and for any further efforts the Cerulean crew can make toward integrating Skype's very much closed protocols into the package.

But Astra's a tremendously interesting beta in a software category for which I for one am happy to pay a small fee to get the very best tools. After three years it took a major rewrite to get my attention, but they've got it. All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Cookie Policy. Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Hey, just so you know Reply to this comment.

Mail With Outlook. Message windows A few long-standing bugs have been addressed, including a few very rare corner cases with message window flashing, improvements to group chat windows, fixes to spellcheck, and a few other great tweaks that long-time users will appreciate — including the removal of the tooltip in the edit area that annoyed so many of you!

Twitter Last but not least, our Twitter engine gets a few nice enhancements: see user displaynames and usernames in your stream, fixes for direct messaging, fixes for RTs being cut off, and more. What's New: Voice: Fixed issue where call option was not showing within menus Fixed: Contact List: Fixed issue where group chat creation did not show for some groups Fixed: GIF: Searching for certain phrases could come up with stale results Fixed: History: Fixed crash when right clicking with no images Fixed: Languages: Added missing translated strings Fixed: Media: Images not loading from certain directories Fixed: Status: Changing case within status message does not set Fixed: Status: No longer shows custom option if language pack does not support it.

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