Final Version of Trillian for Windows 4.1 Released
Since October 09 all we’ve had to play with was a public beta of Trillian for Widows 4.1 (version 4.1 is also known as Trillian Astra). But as of this month Trillian Astra Beta is old news – the final, stable version of the multi-protocol instant messaging application has been released to the public.
“We’re happy to announce the full release of Trillian for Windows 4.1! 4.1 includes hundreds of new changes, including mail improvements, Windows 7 integration, an improved status control, and powerful new Twitter and Facebook features! We’ve already started working on version 4.2, and will continue to support and maintain 4.1 should any new bugs appear,” announced Cerulean Studios, the company behind Trillian.
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If you’ve played with the Beta release, then you already know what Trillian 4.1 has to offer. The stable release takes the features we’ve known about since the release of the Beta and makes sure they work without any snags. Here are the features I’m talking about: Windows 7 Support
Trillian 4.1 works with the user interface provided by the latest version of the Windows-based operating system, Windows 7.
Tanks to Windows 7 API’s Trillian 4.1 can provide these handy functions: set your status from the Jump Lists, see the progress of your file transfers in the taskbar, see your status in the taskbar, enhanced taskbar thumbnails.
Enhanced Status Control
You can change your status without changing your status message
You can tweet from the contact list; when you set your status, a character count will appear (the Twitter plugin must be set to match your Trillian status)
You can set a separate status for individual connections
The options to set a status message as “away” and auto-responses have been brought back
The option to activate a "hide button"; activate it from Preferences
Disable buzz locally
Screen capture supported for secondary monitors
Mail improvements
Display mail in compact mode, full mode, or show them like Gmail
More lines of text are displayed in the contact list
Right click context menu to easily mark mail as read, spam, archive or delete the message.
Improved email preview
Notification windows are grouped together
Next and back buttons for notifications
Place notifications in any corner of the monitor
Multiple monitors support for notifications
Twitter and Facebook Features
Follow and unfollow from within Trillian
Option to filter tweets
News Feeds has a new layout
The Contact List comes with several new Twitter features: Twitter searches, tweet from the contact list, Twitter “floater” windows
The tweet window comes with TwitPic integration, character count, shortened URL support (bit.ly and TinyURL), an edit window for retweets
Support for the new Facebook stream API
The final version of Trillian for Windows 4.1 is available for download here.
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