450+ Features of Trillian Astra
Real software, real features.
Trillian Astra helps you organize your online life with its powerful and flexible interface for IM, social networks, content syndication, the Web, and email. Browse the full feature list below.
Window Management
Message Windows (29)
Contact List (50)
Group Chat (4)
Notifications (14)
Skins & Themes (22)
Chat Networks
Astra (17)
AIM® (11)
Google™ Talk (6)
ICQ® (10)
Jabber/XMPP (9)
Windows Live™ (13)
Yahoo!® (15)
Chat Features
Activity History (12)
File Transfer (16)
Video & Audio (14)
Status & Away Mode (21)
Text Chat (32)
Usage Management
Automation (10)
Identities & Connections Manager (7)
Languages (5)
Performance (6)
Plugins (20)
Proxy Server (3)
C - H
Message Windows (29)
Contact List (50)
Device Awareness (4)
Facebook (11)
File Transfer (16)
Google™ Talk (6)
Group Chat (4)
I - O
ICQ® (10)
Identities & Connections Manager (7)
IRC (20)
Jabber/XMPP (9)
Languages (5)
Mail (7)
MySpaceIM (8)
Notifications (14)
P - S
Performance (6)
Plugins (20)
Proxy Server (3)
Skins & Themes (22)
Skype™ (6)
Social Widgets (14)
Startup and Windows Integration (18)
Status Messages (21)
T - Z
Text Chat (32)
Trillian Mini (3)
Twitter (20)
Video & Audio (14)
Windows Live™ (13)
Yahoo!® (15)
Astra Service
One Login for All Accounts
Securely store your identities and accounts with Astra, guaranteeing you access to your full profile from any device or location. Your data is always stored using industry-grade AES encryption and is never readable by anyone but you.
Open, Secure, Flexible, Efficient Protocol
Our protocol was designed from the ground-up with years of industry experience and lessons in mind, the result of which is a flexible, fast, and secure protocol. Protocol documentation will be open for anyone to read upon our final release; Cerulean Studios is committed to supporting and maintaining interoperable networks.
Change Password and Security Question
Keep Trillian secure by frequently changing your password, which is a breeze to change directly from the client.
Messaging
Communicate with styled and formatted messaging.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Invisibility
Hide from the world when you can't bear to hear another IM noise with full invisibility support.
Offline Messaging
Never miss a thing with timestamped offline messages.
File Transfers with Proxying
Sending files and other documents is a breeze with powerful file transfer support, including server proxying for restrictive firewalls.
Privacy with Visible and Invisible Lists
Control who sees you when you're invisible and who can never see you on a user-by-user basis with full visible/invisible lists.
Astra Profile Integration
Fully explore user profiles with direct Flash-based Astra Profile integration. View widgets, personal information, and aggregated web links with the click of a button.
Video and Voice Calls
Take your conversation to the next level with directly-integrated voice and video messaging. Preferred codecs are H.263 (video) and Speex (voice) with varying qualities depending on bandwidth and processing power.
Server Proxy for Media
Industry-recognized server proxying utilizing well-known technologies such as STUN, TURN, and ICE are utilized across all Astra direct connections to ensure the fastest and most efficient media delivery possible.
Easy Inline Image Transfer
Quickly drag and drop images directly into Astra message windows to instantly send photos to your friends.
Server Display name
Propagate new display names to your contact list automatically without any manual lookups or intervention.
Drawing support
Full support for drawing interfaces and pen-mode image transfer, also compatible with Tablet PCs.
Buzz Support
Annoy your friends with our unlimited buzz storm capability! Buzz will not function with non-contacts.
Sign On from Multiple Locations
Utilize a single Astra Account and login from multiple locations simultaneously. Your contact list, icon, and all other associated Astra data assets will synchronize and stay updated between devices in real time!
Astra Profile
XML Format
Share and export the data within your profile anyway you like with a flexible XML storage system. Your data is yours to mash up and reuse in any way you like.
One Trillian URL Manages Many
Handing out your Trillian Profile URL is an easy way to aggregate all of your online profile links into a single, living link. It's easy to remember, too!
Intro Page
Your Intro Page serves as the lead-in for your profile experience. See the summarized basic details of each user, including name and personal demographic information, before launching into the full profile view.
Widget Profiles for Trillian Astra
Beyond the intro page lies the widget profile walls, a personally customized profile zone that contains widgets, pictures, links, and text written and designed by you!
Organic Layout and Fluid Navigation
Your widgets are all laid out in true freeform style. Place them wherever you wish and your contacts will all see them in the same spot! Zoom in and out and drag around the widget area to navigate through the profile.
Web Sync
Widgets that tie into web-sourced data, as is the case with the Flickr widget, will update over time as their original source material changes. Adding new pictures to your Flickr account will also reflect on the widget!
Easy-to-use Editor for Widget Profile Walls
Edit your widget data directly within your profile with Flash-based edit cards. The editing process provides you with a live preview of the widget as it will appear upon completion.
Activity History
History Window
Access your activity history with Trillian's customizable history viewer.
Captures all Chats, Group Conversations, and Connections
Never miss a beat with automatic logging of chat and group conversations. You can even log your connection history if you's so inclined.
Bookmarks
Mark handy passages or special information with renamable bookmarks; retrieve the information at any time.
Searching
Instantly search through years of stored conversation history from within the history viewer. Search highlights key words and phrases and helpfully zooms into the relevant conversations on request.
Timeline View
Conversation history is rendered in a special timeline-based view so you can visualize the gaps in communication and better understand the flow of conversation across the day.
Summary View
See your last few conversations with a given contact at a glance when you open the history window.
Global Summary View
See your last few conversations across all services and connections.
Assets Collection View
As you chat, images and files sent and received (or informational links to them) are stored in your asset collection. You can review this history at anytime to map out a timeline of communication with a particular user.
Renamable Bookmarks
New to 4.0, bookmarks can now be renamed after you create them.
Access Activity History Anytime
Even when Trillian is disconnected or your contacts are offline, history view is available. Sign online in invisible mode or simply don't connect anywhere for a quick and easy way to check your history without advertising your presence.
MetaContact History Aggregation
When using MetaContacts, history for all the children of a MetaContact is aggregated into a single activity history window for quick searching across all known accounts.
Native XML and TXT Formats
History is stored in both XML and TXT formats for maximum portability and later retrieval. You can even print the text files as they contain no unreadable text or custom control codes!
AIM
Messaging
Communicate with styled and formatted messaging.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Invisibility
Hide from the world when you can't bear to hear another IM noise with full invisibility support.
Offline Messaging
Never miss a thing with timestamped offline messages.
File Transfers with Proxying
Sending files and other documents is a breeze with powerful file transfer support, including server proxying for restrictive firewalls.
Full AIM Privacy Settings
Seamlessly transition to Trillian with the same privacy settings you're used to when using the AIM software.
Group Conversations
Join AIM chat rooms or invite multiple users to an AIM Conference with only a few mouse clicks.
AIM Mail Integration
Automatically be notified when you receive new mail on your AIM Mail account.
View and Set AIM Profile With Formatting Support
Fully supported AIM profiles ensure you won't miss a beat when switching to Trillian. Profiles can be saved and are rendered in full HTML formatting for maximum compatibility.
SecureIM to Trillian Users
Add an additional layer of security to your conversations when talking to other Trillian users using our powerful SecureIM solution, first introduced way back in 2001.
ICQ interoperability
Communicate directly with ICQ users on AIM and vice versa with full support for file transfers, text formatting, typing notifications, group conversations, and more!
Automation
Global Hotkeys
Configure hotkeys to do anything Trillian-related and even a few things not! Hotkeys can launch random applications, open message windows, and much much more.
Message Highlighting
Play a special sound or change the color of text when it matches predefined patterns that you set and control.
Idle Timers
Idle timers are a core element of Trillian's events system. Advanced users can configure timers to perform other options at their discretion - by default, these timers are utilized to set Trillian away and back.
Schedule Events Regularly
A built-in scheduler allows you to fire programmed events at a given time once, every day at the same time, and more. Automatically instruct Trillian to disconnect you every day at 5PM, for example. Happy hour awaits!
Program Generated Events
A large variety of pre-configured program events exist within the automation system. Choose to play sounds when contacts sign in, set your status to invisible as soon as your ex-boyfriend signs online, and more!
Skin or Custom Sounds for Events
Play sounds from directly within the skin or bind your own customized WAV files to events.
Program Execution and Events
In reaction to an event, Trillian can execute any program on your computer. When your boss signs online, instantly load BOSSKEY.EXE, or simply bind it to the Ctrl-B hotkey, Lounge Lizard style!
Notification Control
Open a notification window in response to any configured event, filling it with the text you choose.
Status Changing Control
Apply any of the pre-configured or customized status messages stored within Trillian in response to an automation event.
Send a Message or Open a Window
Instruct Trillian to automatically open a message window to a particular contact in response to an automated event, or even bind a hotkey to your favorite contacts for quick access.
Bonjour
Messaging
Communicate with no-hassle always-on messaging to those inside your local network.
Fast Local File Transfers
Send files with blazing-fast LAN speed to other Trillian and iChat users.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Add to any Identity
Add Bonjour connections to any identity you choose - there is no longer an enforcement on using the default identity.
Upgraded Bonjour Engine
Sporting the latest Bonjour Engine directly from Apple, helping to fix old bugs and introduce additional compatibility for your LAN.
Customized Name Selection
Choose any standards-compatible name you wish for your Bonjour connection instead of requiring your computer name.
Contact List
Your Contact List Everywhere
Keep your Contact List with you anywhere you go with Trillian Astra's powerful new synchronization services. Your custom contact list is securely stored with your Astra Account and is available anywhere you install Trillian.
Simple, List, and Tile Views in Any Size
Organize your contact list exactly the way you want to with Trillian's many different viewing choices. List each contact alongside its avatar, tile contacts together to conserve vertical space, or select a simplistic view that wastes no space whatsoever! You can even change the size of the avatars displayed in the list to suit your available screen space and personal taste.
Fast Contact Searching
Simply begin typing from the contact list window to begin a search. Type all or any part of a username, display name, or even service name to instantly zoom in on the requested contacts for instant access.
Fast Status Changes
Quickly change your status across all services directly from the contact list, including the ability to set a status message.
Change Your Display Name Quickly
Control your display name with a simple click of the contact list; no more digging through preferences to find a setting.
Dynamic List Height
Let Trillian handle the automatic sizing of your contact list to fit whatever is currently in view. If your list is changing constantly and you find yourself resizing it to reduce wasted desktop space, this feature is for you!
Categorize Offline Contacts
Organize all offline contacts into a convenient "Offline" group for quick access only to contacts who are available for conversation.
MetaContacts
When you have the same person on your list many different times across multiple IM services, aggregate them into a single MetaContact for an easy top-down view of their combined presence information.
Customizable List Sorting
Arrange contacts in an order that is most meaningful to you and provides you with the quickest and most sensible way of locating a contact. Trillian can automatically sort all of your contacts by their current status, the service they're on, forward and reverse alphabetically, and even by the size of their conversation history, ensuring that your most heavily-used contacts are always near the top of your list!
Docking
Power users will enjoy the ability to 'dock' the contact list to a chosen edge of the monitor, making it a permanent fixture on the desktop ala the Windows Task Bar. In addition, docking can be configured to automatically hide itself until you position your mouse cursor nearby, keeping the list out of the way until you need it for something.
Floating Contacts
Instantly drag any element of your contact list off of your list and onto your desktop, regardless of whether or not the contact list itself is visible or minimized.
Renaming
Bring order to chaos; Trillian allows any contact on your list to be renamed to something more comprehensible than your average IM username.
Drag and Drop File Transfers
Easily transfer files to your contacts by dragging a file from your desktop directly into your contact list to initiate an outbound transfer.
Different Views For Each Section
What might be right for you, may not be right for some - Trillian now supports different views for Mail, News, and Contacts. You can keep your Twitter and Facebook feed a compact "simple" view while using large icons for your contacts, and vice versa!
Contact Notes
Keep a customized paragraph or two of notes specific to an individual contact and available for reading via a tooltip at any time.
New Add Contact Window
Adding a contact is easier than ever in Trillian Astra. The add window is more robust than ever, with improved error detection to help you know whether a request was accepted or not.
Per-Contact Customizable Notifications
Take customized action when that certain someone signs online - play a special sound, open an alert window, and more.
Last Seen On
Always know the last time Trillian has seen a contact by checking their last seen time. Even if you weren't around, Trillian will tell you how long it's been since a contact was last seen.
Nested Groups
Add groups within groups for an additional level of customization and control.
All New Service Icons
Vector-based and carefully crafted to convey a large range of different statuses, our shiny new service icons are sure to bring a touch of class to your desktop!
Scrollbar Hides When Not Needed
Conserve precious screen real estate - Trillian will now automatically hide scrollbars when they are not required.
New Icon Resizing Algorithm
Enjoy a crisper contact list with our new bicubic resize algorithm as its applied to the icons of your contacts.
Quick Preferences
Quickly access Trillian preferences directly from the contact list, including instant access to a handful of "quick" preferences, such as sounds and themes.
Re-arrange Connection Icons
Drag and drop the connection icons on the bottom of your contact list in any order you prefer.
Start Connections from the Contact List
Use the connection icons to instantly launch existing but disconnected connections without opening the connection manager.
Recent Online and Offline States
Quickly determine which contact recently signed online or offline by glancing at your contact list and locating the special "recent" icons alongside a temporary change in color. Handy when you hear a noise and missed the visual cue.
Hide Empty Groups
Clean your contact list of unnecessary clutter by hiding groups currently without any online contacts.
Show Group Counts
Know how many contacts within a particular group are online with an optional visual indicator.
Show Avatars or Status Icons
Decide on showing avatars or showing simple status icons for each of your contacts.
Show Separate Service Icons
Always know what service a contact is on with explicitly-worded service icons that will handily appear directly next to each contact.
Widgets
Keep your favorite widgets handy directly inside the contact list, allowing you yet another fun and extensible information aggregation choice. Weather, time clocks, and more!
Scroll To See More In Info Cards
You can now use scrollbars directly within info cards when information overflows. We've also improved the positioning of the info card controls to make them easier to manipulate and use throughout all of Trillian.
Always On Top
Display your contact list no matter what window obstructs it by enabling the always on top feature.
Use Taskbar when Not Docked
Hide Trillian from your taskbar and control it exclusively through a discreet system tray icon if you wish, reducing clutter on your already busy taskbar!
Connection Manager Icon
Quickly access your connection manager with a single click of the new connection manager icon.
Auto-Hide Support for Docked List
Keep your docked contact list out of view until you move the mouse to the edge of your monitor to summon it.
Easily Follow Links in Status Messages
Right-click a contact to follow any links found inside status messages.
Constrain Icon Size in Tooltips
Keep the size of your tooltips under control by constraining them to a particular size. This handy feature helps consolidate the many different formats for avatars across different services.
Quick Exit and User Switch from Status Bar
Switch users, signoff, and exit Trillian from the new Shutdown section of the status bar.
Per-Contact Notification Muting
Silence notifications on an per-contact basis while maintaining the same set of global settings for others.
Per-Contact Account Source
Choose your preferred source account for individual contacts when connecting to multiple accounts simultaneously.
Troubleshooting Alerts
Handily diagnose and remedy connectivity issues directly from the contact list with the new troubleshooting panel.
Hide Unused Connection Icons
Keep your connection icons tidy with the new ability to hide icons that are not bound to any connections.
Show Secondary Status Icons
Customize your list even further by choosing to show or hide secondary status icons next to the names of contacts.
Quickly Expand MetaContacts on Mouse Movement
Quickly view the status for all contacts within a MetaContact by simply mousing over it, reducing excess clicks.
MetaContacts Now Show Away Messages
MetaContacts will automatically inherit the status message of the highest-ranked contact that they contain.
Hide Specific Connections from Contact List
Individually decide on hiding connection icons for accounts that exist but are typically inactive from a particular location.
Contact Cloning
Move a contact into more than one group as the situation warrants with contact cloning, such as "Co-Workers" and "Friends".
Drag and Drop to Set Icon
Change your icon without entering preferences by simply dragging the desired graphic right onto the designated area in the contact list!
Tweet From Contact List
Trillian can now be configured to post your status changes to Twitter and Facebook! If you do not wish to combine them, you can always post to a network by right clicking its feed icon on your contact list.
Device Awareness
Synchronized Settings
Take your settings with you everywhere you go. A large portion of your Trillian connection settings, including your identities, contact list, and profile, are now stored and synchronized server-side alongside your Astra Account.
Device Manager
View the status of all of your connected devices at a glance with the new Device Manager. IP addresses, platforms, and versions are all viewable for all other connected devices.
Per-Device Auto Connection
Use your discretion when determining which accounts to enable from a particular device. You might decide to connect to three important business accounts from work, while connecting to only your personal IM account from home. Although your connections are synchronized between all devices, Trillian will store all automatic connection settings per-device so you don't accidentally sign into your business IM account from a home PC or mobile device!
Disconnect Other Devices
Exercise full connection control over your other connected devices with the ability to request that other devices forcefully disconnect.
Facebook
Your News Feed
Integrate your full Facebook News Feed directly into Trillian with a compact and fully customizable view. Trillian 4.1 supports Facebook's new stream API which includes even more updates!
Notifiers for News Feed
Be notified instantly when Trillian detects additions to your feed. Alerts are fully customizable and individual notification types can be turned on or off.
Pictures
Notification windows and the contact list itself now support the rendering of user pictures.
Join Facebook Apps
If your friend's post involves a particular Facebook app, Trillian will now provide a link to activate that app so you can join in.
Synchronized Status Message Updating
Automatically update your status message on Facebook when Trillian changes status for instant and immediate global status propagation.
Facebook Inbox Integration
Automatically be notified when you receive new messages on your Facebook account.
Like What You See?
Facebook posts now have clickable "Like" ability, so one click will show your support.
Full Chat Connection
Connect to Facebook Chat right in Trillian's connection manager, like all of your other accounts. Because your accounts are synchronized across devices, you won't have to set it up again when you use Trillian elsewhere. MetaContact support allows you to combine a friend's Facebook account with their other IM accounts.
Birthday Reminders
Be notified days in advance of your friend's pending birthday.
Instant Comment
You can now click to comment instantly on any Facebook post!
Past Chats
Chat logs are now retained by Trillian just as they would with any other connection, and Pro users can now enjoy integration with Trillian Pro's centralized activity history.
File Transfer
Protocol Refresh
File transfer protocols across all supported services have been refreshed and updated to their latest versions and capabilities. Strong emphasis has been placed on ensuring server proxying support exists and is functional wherever possible to help push file transfers through restrictive networks and firewall configurations.
Improved File Transfer Window
A new file transfer window will delight with its compact size and useful information displays.
Context Menu
Upon successful transfer, a file's full Windows Explorer context menu is available for the newly-received file. Copy images, execute programs, unzip archives, and more, directly from the file transfer window!
Total Time Display
Know how long a file transfer took even if you walk away from the computer for an extended period of time with a convenient time display. The total amount of time a file transfer takes is printed to the window upon transfer completion.
Debug Window
Help us help you with the new debug window. When a file transfer goes wrong, additional debugging information can be found in a collapsible drawer that helps our technicians diagnose the problem and work on a code fix or a network modification suggestion.
Automatically ZIP Directories
Handily send many files at once by automatically zipping files and directories into a single file! Simply drag multiple files into a message window to initiate a zipped file transfer.
Image Preview
Know what you're getting into with image preview. When sending and receiving files, a small image preview or icon is sent along with the file to give you a sneak preview of the end result.
File Transfer Folder
Place files received from your contacts wherever you choose, including allowing Trillian to organize received files in a neat system based on the sender's network and login name.
Virus scanner
Ensure the files you receive are virus free by enabling optional virus scanning support for all incoming files using your favorite virus scanner.
Auto-Accept Preferences
Allow all of your friends to easily drag and drop files to you without going through the cumbersome approval process while still requiring non-contacts to receive your explicit approval before Trillian accepts a file.
See File Transfer Progress From Windows 7 Taskbar
Watch minimized file transfers smoothly progress from a distance using the new integrated meters featured in Windows 7.
Explorer Integration
Quickly send files to anyone on your contact list directly from your Explorer window by right clicking any file and choosing a destination contact for the file transfer!
Auto-Minimize Windows
Keep your file transfers out of sight while they're active and deal with them when you're ready - handy if you receive a large number of files that you automatically accept throughout the day.
Close Windows when Complete
Clean up file transfer windows as soon as the transfer is finished.
Resume
Utilize Trillian's support for resuming broken file transfers whenever supported by your network of choice, ensuring you don't have to resend a huge file just because of an intermittent network connection.
Automatically ZIP Multiple Files
Handily send a large number of files even on networks where multiple file transfers are not supported by automatically zipping them into a single file! Simply drag multiple files into a message window initiate a zipped file transfer.
Google
Messaging
Communicate with integrated support for Gmail and Google Talk messaging.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Block List
Block contacts using Google Roster XMPP extensions.
Offline Messaging
Never miss a thing with timestamped offline messages.
Gmail Integration
Automatically be notified when you receive new mail on your Gmail account, including automatic login. Intelligent alerts will include as much information as possible, including subject and message snippets.
Mark As Read
Delete, archive, mark as spam, and mark as read from a simple right-click menu, vastly reducing the amount of time you need to spend in your full-size inbox.
Group Chat
Group Chat Browser
Easily browse for existing chat rooms with full grouping support and other custom extensions where applicable with our new chat browser.
Invite Contacts
Create your own private chat rooms easily. Choose from your contacts or invite someone by hand using the new invite window.
Nicklists
Know who is chatting with you with an always-on nicklist describing the current chat participants.
Mass Messaging
Send a message to many contacts at once.
ICQ
Messaging
Communicate with styled and formatted messaging.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Invisibility
Hide from the world when you can't bear to hear another IM noise with full invisibility support.
Offline Messaging
Never miss a thing with timestamped offline messages.
File Transfers with Proxying
Sending files and other documents is a breeze with powerful file transfer support, including server proxying for restrictive firewalls.
Full ICQ Privacy Settings
Seamlessly transition to Trillian with the same privacy settings you're used to when using the ICQ software, including visible and invisible lists and ignore lists.
Group Conversations
Join ICQ chat rooms or invite multiple users to an ICQ Conference with only a few mouse clicks.
View Basic ICQ Profiles
View the basic profile information associated with ICQ contacts directly from the message window.
SecureIM to Trillian Users
Add an additional layer of security to your conversations when talking to other Trillian users using our powerful SecureIM solution, first introduced way back in 2001.
AIM interoperability
Communicate directly with AIM users on ICQ and vice versa with full support for file transfers, text formatting, typing notifications, group conversations, and more!
Identities & Connections Manager
Synchronization of Identities Between Devices
Never worry about constantly having to rebuild your connection settings every time Trillian is installed to a new PC. With the power of Astra, your connections and settings are shared between your devices for immediate access to your connected world!
Identity Display Name, Icon, and Auto-Connection Options
Control and organize your connections according to the different branches of your life. Group business connections together with a professional display name and icon while keeping personal connections more light-hearted and fun! You can optionally toggle auto-connection for an entire identity!
Improved x:data Interface for Consistent Connection Settings Appearances
Enjoy a unified connection preferences look and feel across all official plugins. With enhanced support for the official x:data specification, including custom extensions by Cerulean Studios, changing settings in Trillian is a breeze!
Individual Connection Overrides
Fine-tune your settings beyond your wildest imagination. Power users can override display names and proxy settings on a per-connection basis! Even if your "Business" identity claims the display name "John Doe", you can specifically instruct Trillian to use "Johnny Doe" for one IM connection only, should you wish!
Icon Gallery
Choose from either your previously used icons, the stock Windows icons, more than a dozen custom holiday-themed icons, or even the Trillian Globes.
Follow Windows Icon
Set your icon in Windows and Trillian will follow.
Crop and Resize Icon
Resize and crop your vacation photo to grab simply your face for use as your icon.
IRC
Messaging with UTF-8 Support
Your messages, when server-supported, are transmitted in full UTF-8 for full internationalization.
Basic Nickname Notification Functionality
Receive notifications when nicknames sign online and offline of your IRC network.
File Transfer via DCC
Customizable file transfers supported by the DCC protocol, compatible with virtually every IRC client.
Built-In Ident Server
Respond to server identification probes with a built-in Ident Server.
Password Support for IRC servers and Bouncer Software
Seamless connection to password-protected IRC servers and other proxying software.
Perform Buffer
Automatically execute a list of custom commands when joining a IRC server.
Automatic Reconnections
Maintain your connection automatically through server disconnects, network problems, or kill commands from IRC ops on a power trip!
CTCP Command Support
Respond to a variety of inter-client requests using CTCP support, including VERSION, TIME, and PING.
SSL Connections
Secure your connection to security-focused IRC servers.
Colors and Formatted Text
Send and receive messages with cross-compatible formatting codes.
DCC CHAT
Directly connect to a particular friend for an additional layer of conversation security.
Channel Key Storage
Never lose track of your keys again; easily join key-protected channels with Trillian's key storage feature.
Automatic Nickname Changes
Instruct Trillian to automatically change your nickname on status change to let other users in your channel know you're gone immediately.
Improved Textual Output of Commands and Server Replies
Advanced IRC Protocol Features
SAFELIST, UHNAMES, NAMESX, and more.
Channel Management
Manage channel ban lists, topics, and more with the built-in channel management interface.
Interoperable Blowfish Encryption
Your chats are more secure than ever with new Blowfish encryption and 1080 bit key exchange, compatible with many other IRC clients.
Ignore list
Stop unwanted IRC spam with basic ignore list functionality.
New Group Chat Browser for Channels
Easily browse through available IRC channels with our new chat browser window.
Support for irc:// URIs
Quickly join chat rooms and open message windows when working with irc:// URIs found across the web.
Jabber / XMPP
Messaging
Communicate with basic messaging.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Invisibility
Hide from the world when you can't bear to hear another IM noise with full invisibility support.
File Transfer with Proxying
Sending files and other documents is a breeze with powerful file transfer support, including bytehost server proxying for restrictive firewalls.
Block List
Block unwanted communications with client-side blocking.
Group Conversations
Join and participate in any standard MUC room.
New Group Chat Browser for MUC
Easily browse through available MUC rooms with our new chat browser window.
MUC Room Management
Manage MUC rooms as an administrator or moderate with x:data interface rendering.
Offline Messaging
Never miss a thing with timestamped offline messages.
Languages
Languages Added
Over 30 language packs have been added to Trillian Astra, including German, French, Slovak, Spanish, Bulgarian, Turkish, Swedish, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Czech, Portuguese, Danish, Italian, Romanian, Finnish, and more!
User-created language packs
Anyone can help create a language pack by contributing a few translations to our developer Wiki!
Unicode Support
Trillian Astra is coded in Unicode, which means that you can send and receive your messages in languages other than English.
Per-user Languages
Hosting an exchange student? Each stored Trillian user can use a different language pack after login, ensuring your entire household can enjoy Trillian in their native tongue.
Automatic Language Pack Update
When updates for your language are available, they will be automatically downloaded on startup.
Mail
Mail Panel
Utilize a handy summarize view for all open mail accounts within Trillian. All plugins can now access this new Mail Panel via our extensible API.
Your email accounts now function as groups, with each individual email appearing as a child of the account itself.
When kept expanded, you can easily see your latest few messages at a glance without having to manipulate any UI controls.
Instant Login
Login directly to your web-based mail with a quick double click.
Mail Tooltips
Move your mouse over an account in the new panel and you'll see as much information as Trillian could gather for each mail account.
Several lines of text are shown for each message, now with word wrap ability. You can also configure a unique layout specifically for your mail accounts without changing your contacts or social feeds!
Icon and Tile Support
The Mail Panel will inherit the settings of the rest of your contact list and organize itself in list, tiles, or simple view accordingly.
POP3 and IMAP Support
Full support for POP3 and IMAP accounts is now included by default with the new Mail Plugin.
Realtime Inbox
Your inbox is now updated the moment your provider notifies Trillian that you have new mail (on supported services, such as Gmail, Yahoo!, Windows Live, AIM; requires an IM network connection to that provider.)
Mark As Read
Delete, archive, mark as spam, and mark as read from a simple right-click menu (when supported by the service), vastly reducing the amount of time you need to spend in your full-size inbox.
Message Windows
Tabbed Windows
Reduce desktop clutter by grouping message windows together with a simple drag and drop. Tabbed windows can be automatically created when two windows exist at the same time or can be controlled completely manually. Tabs show the status, avatar, and recently-received messages from each window, and support standard keyboard shortcuts to change between them.
Unified User Information View
View details about your contacts in a new, unified view directly integrated into the message window.
Initial Window Size, Position and Interiors
Control the way windows are sized and positioned down to the very last detail, including nuances between skins, using our new wizard.
Color Themes
Customize your Trillian to fit your mood with an incredible array of new color themes applicable without changing your skin!
Window Creation Options
Control the way windows are created on your desktop to fit your hectic daily workflow, showing them immediately, minimizing them to your taskbar, or even hiding them completely until you decide to open them.
Trillian Mini Integration
For Astra users, your Trillian Mini will be displayed at the top of the message window, showing off your favorite 3 widgets to your friends. Know the weather, mood, and current track of your conversation partner at a glance!
Instant Knowledge Bar
Directly integrate your favorite RSS feeds within the message window, with a special emphasis on news clippings relevant to your conversation!
Compact Message Window
Resize your message windows to a very small minimum size - no large ads or clumsy toolbars will restrict your ability to keep a small visual footprint.
Copy Images from Clipboard
Share images with your friends instantly by copying and pasting directly from your Windows Clipboard into Trillian.
Show Chat Activity in the Taskbar
Keep abreast of new activity in your message windows at a single glance. Trillian can update your taskbar entry with the last message you've received so you know whether it's important to respond immediately or not.
Auto-Resize Edit Box
Keep track of your outgoing messages easily with an auto-resizing edit box that grows and shrinks to fit the demand of your input.
Drag and Drop File Transfers
Easily transfer files to your contacts by dragging a file from your desktop directly into message windows to initiate an outbound transfer.
Extensive Per-Window Controls
Completely control all of the options Trillian has to offer on a per-window basis, including formatting, sounds, emoticons, and much much more.
Quick Reconnect
During times of spotty internet connectivity, use the new Reconnect button from directly within the message window when a connection is lost.
Drag and Drop Windows to Create Tabbed Windows
Immediately join two windows together by a simple drag and drop operation.
Flexible Tabbed Containers
See tabs all the time or request that Trillian optimize tabbed windows out completely when only one message window exists.
Drag and Drop Tabs to Reorder
Control the order of your conversations within a tabbed window by dragging tabs into the order you wish.
Tabbed Windows Show Participants in Title
Immediately know the participants of a tabbed window by quickly glancing at your taskbar - participants are now optionally shown as the title of the tabbed window itself.
Automatic Window Cleanup for Unused Windows
Clean up old conversations automatically after they go unused for a predetermined number of minutes, keeping your desktop twice as tidy with half the effort!
Always On Top
Display message windows no matter what windows obstruct them by enabling the always on top feature.
Status Messages Displayed in Message Window
See the informative and occasionally silly status messages of your contacts directly inside the new message windows. No need to switch back to your contact list.
Font Styles
Format your text easily with preset font styles. Highlight important text quickly, or even send computer code in fixed width fonts.
Photo Preview Window
Expand inline images after they're received with a useful preview window, allowing image viewing at full resolution.
Typing Indicators in Tabs
Know when an inactive tab is beginning to send you a message immediately with new tabbed typing indicators.
Dynamic Toolbar Buttons
Conserve screen real estate with toolbar buttons that only appear when they can be utilized in a particular conversation.
Improved Text Selection Accuracy
We've improved the accuracy of selecting text within a conversation, ensuring the copied text is exactly what you intended.
Customizable Focus Behavior (B&W, Transparency)
Utilize fun and unique ways to let you know which window has your full attention by telling Trillian to paint inactive windows in black and white, or even semi-transparent.
Customizable Window Flashing Controls
Always known when a window needs your attention by customizing the amount of times Trillian flashes the taskbar to alert you of new activity in a open window.
Close Window After Send
Do you have old ICQ fever? Trillian supports the ancient feature of closing a message window immediately after you've sent a message for the old school ICQ users who can't live without it!
MySpaceIM
Messaging
Communicate with styled and formatted messaging.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Invisibility
Hide from the world when you can't bear to hear another IM noise with full invisibility support.
Offline Messaging
Never miss a thing with timestamped offline messages.
Block List
Block unwanted communications and appear offline to blocked users with server-side block list support.
MySpace Inbox Integration
Automatically be notified when you receive new messages on your MySpace account, including automatic login.
User Information View
View basic MySpaceIM user information directly from the message window.
Send Mail and Comments
Directly login to MySpace from Trillian to send mail messages and add comments to the profiles of your contacts.
Notifications
Customizable Sound Notifications
Hear when your contacts are trying to reach you with handy and individually recognizable sounds.
Play Sounds Only for Inactive Windows
Optionally play sounds only in windows where you're not currently engaging in conversation, keeping busy conversations quiet but continuing to notify you when a message is received somewhere else. The best of both worlds.
Notification Windows in System Tray Area
Configure a variety of handy alerts to appear in the corner of your monitor when particular actions occur, guaranteeing that you're always instantly notified of the events you consider important enough to warrant. Notifications are subtle, non-instrusive, and disappear without any intervention after a predefined period.
Toggle Through Notifications
Notifications now come complete with next/back buttons. Advanced users can right click to dismiss single notifications at a time, or use the major "X" button to close the entire group at once.
Notification Overflow Restrictions
Ensure you never receive more than your fill of notification windows at once by setting and enforcing a maximum.
Improved Vista-style Tray Icon
Notifications Now Support Bubbles and Service Icons
Enjoy greater visual identification of notifications with handsome integrated bubbles and service icons.
Group Notifications
Especially useful for incoming mail, notification windows of similar types are now automatically grouped together. When 10 new emails arrive at once, your desktop won't explode with 10 notification windows; instead, a single notification will appear explaining what's going on.
Put Notifications In Any Corner
You can now show notifications near your clock or in any corner of your screen, including support for multiple monitors!
Notification Buttons Appear On Demand
When applicable, buttons are now embedded directly inside notification windows and only appear when your mouse cursor is directly inside the window.
Quick Reply Through Notification Windows
Instantly reply to incoming messages without opening a full message window using the new quick reply feature.
Accept or Deny Authorization Requests
Accept or deny an authorization request without even opening a message window from directly within the alert.
No Repeats
Notification windows are now re-used when possible so that an offline notification and online notification aren't shown at the same time.
Links Within Notifications Are Now Clickable
Links within notification windows can now be directly clicked and opened within the your browser.
Performance
Memory Usage Optimizations
A variety of optimizations with memory usage in mind have been applied to Trillian Astra.
Memory Leaks Plugged
Inevitably, we miss a spot every now and again. A renewed emphasis on ensuring proper and intelligent resource management has continued to ensure that Trillian Astra returns resources to your system in a timely fashion.
Lowered Bandwidth Usage
Improvements have been made across the board to use as little bandwidth as possible during normal operation. Icons and other graphic files are cached, compression is enabled whenever possible, etc.
Faster Networking Code
A new multi-threaded, SMP-aware core helps ensure every facet of Trillian runs quickly and efficiently. Context switches are kept to an absolute minimum, and the speed of our networking engine has been vastly improved.
Faster Redrawing Routines
Constantly seeking the perfect balance of memory usage and speed, we've continued to optimize and improve all facets of UI operation with a special emphasis on internal sorting, storage, and redrawing routines.
Faster Startup
Enjoy a sweeping set of optimizations and enhancements that have reduced startup time by a large amount since Trillian 3.1.
Plugins
Powerful Plugin API
A full plugin API written in C (other languages developed by the community) enabling programmers to develop many types of plugins, ranging from a simple RSS reader to a full chat service plugin! All existing services in Trillian are written using this API, so anything is possible!
Unified Networking, Timer and Threading APIs
Plugins can now utilize the same high-performance networking and timer APIs used by the core Trillian plugins, including a fully-functional TCP/UDP socket API, high-resolution timers, and threading support.
Asset API
The asset API is a general-purpose data store available to all plugins, most often used to store plugin-specific settings. It supports arbitrary formatted data, the parsing of which is left up to the plugin.
XMPP/x:data style API
Plugins can now open Trillian-style user interface controls with the interface API.
Mail Account API
Access the mail panel and add mail messages to your mail account.
URI API
Request that Trillian register for a particular URI syntax and invoke a callback if the user clicks a link.
Additional Message Window Capability Flags
Buzz, single line, file transfer, hand writing, invite and webcam support.
Floating Browser Support Through Browser API
Open a browser window with an embedded IE control.
File Transfers and Image Previews
Send and render file transfer preview data in a variety of supported image formats.
Status Message Control
Add custom status messages via the plugin API.
Basic Message Interception API
To actively monitor all messages that pass through Trillian, in your choice of synchronous or asynchronous flavors.
Integrated User Info API
To render user detail in a consisent way - add user items and attached data.
Chat Room Browser, Invite, and Join Windows via API
Account Enumeration API
DebugLog API
In debug mode, entries to the debug log will be included in the diagnostic report Trillian creates.
HTTP API Optionally Sends Download Progress
Asynchronous Plugin Stop for Graceful Unload
Ensure that Trillian doesn't try to stop your plugin in the middle of busy operations with the new asynchronous stopRequest API.
Lots of New Events and Actions Exposed Through Automation
Native Resource Support for Message Windows
To properly set the 'Conversations' bar when resources are involved.
Medium Display Names
For future-proofing and more pleasing aesthetics, mediums can now register with a display name.
Proxy Server
Individual Connection Proxy Settings
Configure a global proxy, or fine-tune your settings for each connection within Trillian.
Support for HTTP, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 Proxies
Basic support for the main types of proxies. Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger now support HTTP gatewaying as well.
Auto-Follow Internet Explorer Settings
Change your proxy setup in Internet Explorer and Trillian will follow. No more setting it in both places.
Skins and Themes
SkinXML
Developers, create the skin of your dreams with the flexible and powerful SkinXML engine. Everything you see in Trillian utilizes the same engine exposed to any artist or programmer interested in tweaking or building something of their own!
Themes
Native support for hue, saturation and lightness changes within the XML.
Skin Zip Format
Completed skins are neatly distributed in a Skin Zip for quick installation by end users.
OS Integration
Skins can now detect the active operating system and alter their graphics and layout accordingly.
Window Active/Inactive States
Interfaces
Design multiple exposed layouts for a single skin to cater to a diverse set of users.
Change Skins Without Restarting
You can now change your skin without restarting Trillian, making switching and previewing new skins a breeze!
Full Support for Alpha Transparency
PNG-based alpha images can be used to create translucent windows.
Cordonata skin
Match modern OS features with this dramatic and exciting skin!
Cobalt skin
Two modes provide features to please even the toughest critic. When desktop real estate is at a premium, the minimal interface can shrink to a very small size.
Support for Windows Vista Glass
Windows Vista and Windows 7 blur effects can be added to skin windows for native OS integration.
Simple Logic with Variables and SkinMath
The SkinXML engine now supports variables and math throughout. Show or hide a particular control based on a button or whatever variable you wish.
Custom Windows
Create just a contact list for a new look without having to create all windows.
Brand New Emoticons
Many of the emoticons have been refreshed and are sporting a new look!
Control Layering
Add an image on top of a list or other control to provide a sheen or glare.
Core Language Additions and Improvements
Many changes throughout the entire SkinXML language.
New Controls for Skinners
New controls added to provide even more functionality across the board.
New Variables for Skinners
Tons of new variables to provide even more options for the skinners out there!
Emoticon Packs
The emoticon set can be changed to support even more emoticons or to change their look completely.
Sound Packs
Combined with the Automation system, Trillian can generate sounds for almost anything.
Action Tags
New events triggered by Trillian will allow skins to perform many actions at once.
Control Preferences Directly
Provide an easy way to quickly change preferences within Trillian without opening up the full window with button actions that can directly manipulate the preferences subsystem.
Skype
Integrated Skype Control
When you have Skype installed, Trillian will embed your Skype contacts in your unified Trillian Contact List and facilitate Skype conversations via skinned Trillian Message Windows.
Multiple Identities
Trillian now supports multiple identities with Skype, so you can simultaneously sign in to your personal and your professional Skype accounts.
Group Conversation Control
Add new users to your conversation through the Trillian interface.
User Information View
View basic Skype user information directly from the message window.
Basic Call Control
Accept incoming Skype calls through Trillian's Notification System.
File Transfer Notifications
Receive instant notifications when a Skype user sends you a file.
Social Widgets
World Time Clock
Powerful and subtle, the clock can easily let your international friends know that you are chatting at midnight.
My Mood
Tells others what your mood is like right now.
Flickr
Displays the latest photos from a chosen Flickr account.
Weather
Shows your friends the weather of your current location with cute emoticons. Powered by the great team at weather.com!
Countdown
Counts down to a programmable event on a programmable date to remind you and your friends of the important event!
Videogame Console
Show off your favorite next-generation videogame console!
Monitor a chosen Twitter account, updating with the latest tweets as they arrive. Only works for public accounts.
Word of the Day
Loads a random word every day from dictionary.com.
Travel Map USA
Track the sites in the USA you've visited.
Ask.com Search
Integrated, quick access to Ask.com searching.
Ghost
Because every day is Halloween at Cerulean Studios, sport this cute little ghost on your profile every day of the year!
Business Card
Standard business card display.
My Sport
Pick your favorite sport from a list of popular sports!
My Gender
The question everyone really wants to know on chat rooms - are you male or female? Let them down easy with the gender widget!
Startup and Windows Integration
Installation Wizard
Configure Trillian to suit your needs with our powerful new installation and migration wizard. Set up accounts, profiles, and your personal icon with a step-by-step walkthrough during your first time with Trillian.
Glassy Login Screen
A handsome new login screen with support for multiple users, proxies, and other per-account settings is ready to greet you when you first load Trillian.
Big Icons for Easy Picking
Large, crisp icons help make your account selection simple and painless.
Easily Accessible Options
Quickly change account settings or login as invisible by accessing a simple button appearing on mouseover for each individual account.
New Installer
Trillian Astra features the latest installer technology from Cerulean Studios, including vastly improved support for Windows Vista and UAC.
Auto Update
Stay current with our latest auto update technology, our most seamless and integrated effort to date! Simple notifications alert you of new builds which are quickly downloaded and installed to ensure your copy of Trillian is working at peak efficiency.
Giant New Vista Start Menu Icon
Feel right at home in Windows Vista with a fully-sized Windows Vista icon.
Load Trillian on Start
Unlock the power of Trillian as soon as your computer finishes booting.
Desktop Shortcut
Gain quick access to Trillian via handily-placed shortcuts on your desktop. If you've forgotten or misplaced the shortcut, a quick checkbox in preferences can easily replace the broken or missing link with ease!
Start Menu Integration
Organizing your start menu is easy with Trillian's built-in options to add itself or remove itself from this commonly-cluttered list.
Automatic Login
Go straight to your contact list when Trillian loads up if you're the only user of Trillian on your computer!
Guest Login
Not at home and want to use your account? Trillian will remove all traces of your login after signoff.
Preferences
Search, configure, and navigate through all of Trillian's options easily within the new preferences window.
Show or Hide Login Screen
For absolute local stealth, instruct Trillian to hide the Login Screen during the loading process and the only thing you'll see is a simple task bar entry appear before Trillian is ready to communicate!
Hide Contact List
Hide your Contact List immediately after start-up, making room for your usual suite of desktop applications without having to manually minimize Trillian every time it loads.
Show My Trillian Connections
Decide where to connect to quickly by telling Trillian to always open a list of your available connections when it first starts.
Beta Versions
Participate in our current progress with the latest and greatest beta version of Trillian by enabling support for optional beta upgrades. Power users only!
News Alerts
Stay abreast of all things Trillian without having to check our website; we'll send out important news and updates to those customers who enable this special alert feature.
Status Messages and Away Mode
Status Message Support for all Services
Send your customized status messages to every supported service within Trillian Astra! Now includes MSN, Facebook, MySpaceIM, Twitter and more!
Status Message Manager
Featuring a completely revamped and overhauled status message editor in response to our most common feature requests. Trillian now supports visible grouping of messages, enhanced support for variables, font styles and emoticons, and as always, full control over how a given status message applies itself across a wide array of connections.
Groups
Store your status messages in groups to easily access those certain special "themed" messages to fit your mood!
Music Tracking
Show off your musical tastes by having Trillian keep your status message in sync with your currently playing song! Compatible with iTunes, WMP and Winamp.
Formatting and Emoticons
When server-supported, send your status in fully-formatted and emoticon-enabled glory!
Idle Monitoring
Take advantage of Trillian's optional tracking of keyboard and mouse usage to automatically set yourself idle and away when you're away from the keyboard.
Away-Only Statuses
The ability to mark a status message as an away message, giving you finer control over how Trillian behaves when you change to a particular status.
Away Container
Group all messages you receive when away into a consolidated, special "Away" container for quick access upon your return. No more opening several different windows just to catch up!
Partially Online Status
Always know when Trillian has lost a particular connection with the handy Partially Online state. Icons will change and a notification will appear to let you know a connection is in need of repair.
Most Recently Used Messages
Forever remember the witty but often forgotten messages you send to your friends with Trillian's new quick status panel, managing them through our powerful status message editor at a later time.
Randomize
Enjoy the excitement of requesting that Trillian use a random status message from your pool of messages and seeing what comes up!
Variable Support
Customize your status messages with additional real-time information through the variable system.
Windows 7 Jump Status
Set your status quickly from Trillian's Windows 7 Jump List. A handy Jump List menu appears when you right click the taskbar entry for Trillian. When you are not signed in yet, you can sign directly into a given Astra Account directly from the taskbar or Start Menu. After you've signed in, you can easily control your global status, or access your mail accounts right away.
Autoresponse
Back by popular demand, Trillian 4.1 lets you customize an auto-responder to reply with your away message while you're away.
Message Saved on Exit
Store your global status in-between loads of Trillian, including any custom status messages you may have left up.
Screen Saver Integration
Automatically set yourself away when your screen saver fires and set yourself back when it ends.
Auto-Back on Message Send
Quickly return to available status as soon as your first instant message is typed. If you prefer to control your availability by hand, this handy feature lets you forget about removing your away message when you return to the keys!
Hide Notification Windows While Away
Disappear when you're away by asking Trillian to hide any and all notification windows and stop playing sounds. No more interruptions!
Mute Trillian Sounds While Away
Quiet down, Trillian! When you're away, Trillian can immediately halt the playing of any and all sounds to ensure your time away from IM is productive!
Per-Connection
Set status of individual connections. Individual connections within Trillian can now mark themselves to statuses separate from the 'global' status. Trillian 4.1 will remember this across sessions, and you can always request that a connection return to following global presence whenever you like.
See Your Status From Windows 7 Taskbar
Your online status is displayed right on the taskbar, similar to the existing system tray implementation, but with a much bigger and more handsome icon.
Tablet PC Support
Handwriting Mode
Use your Tablet PC with Trillian to send normal text messages with the new Tablet PC-enabled edit box. You can even send drawn images when supported by the backend service!
Colors and Highlighting
Multiple pen sizes and highlighters are available to emphasize your point more clearly.
Save your artwork
As with other images, all drawn images can be saved into history.
Text Chat
Font Formatting and Colors
Identify your outgoing messages with your own unique flair - change foreground and background colors, font faces, and formatting to your hearts content!
Controllable Outbound Formatting
Do you speak in huge fonts that noone else can stand? Do your friends a favor and keep your font formatting choices to yourself, not transmitting them for anyone else to see.
Override Formatting from Others
Do your contacts use a dizzying array of different formatting options, driving you to the eye doctor after a 5 minute chat? Tell Trillian to use the font styles you've chosen to render every message, regardless of the sender's intent.
Emoticons
Enable Trillian's comprehensive support for emoticons and emotisounds to add visual cues and a touch of fun to your messages. Trillian boasts hundreds of default emoticons and a fully customizable emoticon engine through the SkinXML system!
Emoticon Chooser Window
View all available emoticons at once with the handy chooser window. Emoticons are grouped by compatibility and category to help you know which services support certain emoticons.
Emotisounds
Hear fun and engaging sounds when certain emoticons are shown. The cows sound like cows. The pigs sound like pigs. The snozzberries sound like snozzberries!
Controllable Typing Indications
Unify your typing indicators and control how they're sent to your contacts. Enable or disable indications entirely at your discretion.
Typing Indicator Stealth Mode
Optionally help avoid accidental "unstealthing" events by only sending a typing messages after you've sent your first message to a window!
Bubble View
Put the fun back into function with an optimized bubble view, built for intelligent space usage and increased legibility. Bubbles are combined with crisp separators, and icons are displayed only once to avoid needless repetition and space waste.
Playscript View
Handsome and crisp playscript view reads like a dialog out of your favorite play!
URL Support
URLs sent during the course of conversation are automatically parsed and converted into hyperlinks for instant access.
Auto-History
Remind yourself of what you last spoke about with someone by seeing the last few lines of a previous conversation.
Chapters (Relative Timestamps)
Chapter markers such as "Since you last left..." or "5 minutes ago" help you grasp a sense of elapsed time during a conversation.
Per-Message Timestamps
Render a timestamp alongside each message, outgoing and incoming, so you know the precise time each message was sent or received. You can even customize the timestamp to your preferred style with variable support.
Recent Activity Marker
Always know where you last left a window with an automatic activity marker. The marker is inserted into the window at the place your eyes last naturally read before the window lost focus.
Instant Lookup
Know exactly what your contacts are talking about with the automatic Wikipedia integration of Trillian's Instant Lookup feature! Common encyclopedia terms are automatically underlined for your later viewing pleasure via a simple mouseover tooltip.
Insert Webcam Image
Want to show a funny face or an object in your hand but don't want a video chat? Show it to your webcam and capture a photo to send!
Insert Image or Screenshot
Send an image from your PC or a screenshot from your desktop with our special screenshot-taking tool.
Psychic Mode
Be notified in advance when someone begins composing a message to you and you aren't currently in a conversation! Amaze and delight your friends with your omniscience.
Buzz
Shake your contact's message window at will - the ultimate method of IM aggravation has arrived in style!
Hide Window
All windows can now show a hide button similar to the one that existed in the Trillian 3.x series. You can turn on this advanced feature directly from preferences.
Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
Choose your preferred keyboard shortcut to accomplish a variety of common tasks within the message window. Depending on your IM background, you may prefer to send a message with the Enter key or with a keyboard shortcut like Alt-S. Trillian offers you many different choices!
Real-Time Edit Box Previews
Always see your messages as others will see them by automatically converting emoticons and links in your edit box to their actual graphical equivalents.
Resizing Emoticons
Match the size of your emoticons to the size of the text in your message window, ensuring clean and legible emoticons throughout!
Restrictive Emoticon Parsing
Ensure that emoticons aren't really embedded pieces of code or complicated scientific formulae by enabling restrictive parsing, requiring certain formatting to hold true before Trillian displays an emoticon.
Scale Images Into Text Display Area
Automatically scale images to a size appropriate for your current text chat viewable area upon image receipt.
Open URLs in a New Browser Window
Customize Trillian to open every clicked URL in a new browser window to avoid browser interruptions.
Improved Offline Contacts Indication
Always know when a contact is offline with improved message window notifications that also let you know if offline messaging is supported.
Network Repair within Chat
When connections go down, quickly attempt to repair them from directly within the chat area.
Quick Switching Between Chat Views
Switch chat views as your mood demands with a quick drop-down menu. Bubbles in the morning, playscript at night!
Save Chat to Text File
Outside of message history, saving conversations is still possible via the old school "Save As..." method.
Clear the Window
Quickly clear the contents of a window by typing /clear or via the menu.
Trillian Mini
Easy Generation and Distribution
Your Trillian Mini is a small, Flash-powered snapshot of your living Astra Profile. It showcases your current online status, icon, and your top 3 widgets for anyone to enjoy. Place it on your personal website with a simple pasted HTML snippet.
Profile Links
Clicking the Trillian Mini "go" button will bring users directly to your profile. Keep it tidy for visitors!
Trillian Mini and Message Windows
When communicating with other Astra users, by default, your Trillian Mini is displayed on the top of the message window. You can also view other minis in a similar fashion.
Twitter
News Feed
Tweets from users you are following are brought directly into the contact list for quick access.
Direct Messaging
Access Twitter's direct messaging feature through Trillian's message windows to send messages directly to friends.
Reply Directly to Tweet
Right-click a visible tweet to respond directly to it.
Newsbots
Easily organize your friends separately from news contacts.
Character Count
The send button will now update with the number of remaining characters available to you on a per-service basis. This comes in special handy when working with size-restricted services such as Twitter. Trillian automatically calculates the characters you'll save by shortening URLs, sparing you the guesswork!
Pictures
Notification windows and the contact list itself now support the rendering of user pictures.
Follow Twitter Users
You can now follow and unfollow Twitter users directly from within Trillian.
Favorite a Tweet
Mark your favorite tweets directly from Trillian.
List Tweets Directly in a Message Window or Tooltip
Tweets are visible in both message windows and the tooltips in your contact list.
Twitter Trends
Show the latest Twitter Trends directly in your contact list.
Retweet
Easily retweet something you see via the right click menu. New for 4.1, retweeting will now open up a chat window so you can edit the text before sending.
Easier Replying
@username is now pre-filled in your reply window, replicating the familiar behavior of Twitter.
Links Everywhere
The contact list, info card controls, and notification windows now all support linking! Not only are standard HTTP links recognized, but Trillian also links Twitter hash tags and @replies!
Twitter Searches
Twitter searches can now be monitored directly inside the contact list, giving you a handy way to track in realtime what people are saying about a particular search result. Displayed in your contact list and via notification alerts!
TinyURL URL Shortening
Automatically shorten URLs you tweet via the TinyURL service.
Automatic Tweet on Status Message Change
Automatically tweet your status message when Trillian changes status for instant and immediate global status propagation.
Ignore List
Easily ignore a particular person who is tweeting too much!
Twitpic
Now you can include images directly in your Tweets! Trillian automatically handles the upload to Twitpic and subsequent linking. Trillian even updates your character count to include how much space your Twitpic's URL will take! After you've started typing, simply paste from your clipboard, or drag an image from another application.
Capture
Trillian Pro users can capture any part of their screen (by dragging a box around it) and include it as a Twitpic. An incredibly convenient way to share images on Twitter!
bit.ly
Trillian 4.1 now supports bit.ly as a link shortener for Twitter. You can type in your bit.ly username and API key for more bit.ly features. Other bit.ly-compatible link shorteners can be used by typing in the URL for their API.
Video and Audio Chat
Native Video and Audio
Video and audio calls are directly integrated into Trillian over the Trillian Astra network, not pushed into a third-party web browser solution.
Automatic Layout
Whether you have a tall or wide window, Trillian will always resize and position video feeds for the most efficient use of space by elegantly switching between side-by-side view, picture-in-picture view, and top-and-bottom view.
Movie View
Video calls feel like a trip to the movies! The window dims down once a call begins and text feeds in just like onscreen subtitles.
Connection Status
You're kept in the loop as your call is established with handy status messages and troubleshooting options that help explain what went wrong if a call could not go through.
Instant-On
Call establishment speed has been vastly improved in many different scenarios.
Video Filters
Stylize your video calls with fun and whacky video filters, from sepia and black and white to a pixelated privacy mode!
Audio Call Initiation Prompt
Calls can be accepted or declined from a built-in initiation prompt directly inside an open message window.
Audio Call Alert
Receiving a call from a remote party initially opens a notification window with information and accept/deny buttons built directly into the alert. If you choose to decline, no window is opened and your workflow is not interrupted by a huge and visually-demanding window.
Sounds and Animations While Waiting
While you wait for call establishment, a pleasant ringtone reminds you that Trillian is hard at work behind the scenes finding the best path through the internet to the remote party.
Windows 7 Integration
During a video call you will now see a simple, live, video stream as a taskbar thumbnail!
Pulsating Volume Meter
Enjoy soothing and hypnotic volume meters during your call.
Timer
Know how long you've been on a call at all times with the live-action timer display, built directly into the message window.
Full Screen Video
See your contact "face-to-face" by instructing the video chat to fill your entire screen!
Video Capture
Quickly capture stills from your video calls.
Windows Live Messenger
Messaging
Communicate with styled and formatted messaging.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Invisibility
Hide from the world when you can't bear to hear another IM noise with full invisibility support.
Offline Messaging
Never miss a thing with timestamped offline messages.
File Transfers with Proxying
Sending files and other documents is a breeze with powerful file transfer support, including server proxying for restrictive firewalls.
Full WLM Privacy Settings
Seamlessly transition to Trillian with the same privacy settings you're used to when using the WLM software.
Group Conversations
Quickly add participants to open conversations to create a powerful multi-party chat.
Windows Live Mail Integration
Automatically be notified when you receive new mail on your WLM account, including automatic login.
Drawing support
Full support for drawing interfaces and pen-mode image transfer, also compatible with Tablet PCs.
HTTP Gatewaying
Enable full WLM compatibility in restrictive network environments with the automatic HTTP gatewaying feature, ensuring you can always reach your friends even if standard routes of communication are blocked. Requires basic HTTP access to WLM gatewaying servers.
Custom Emoticons
Never miss a thing with full support for receiving custom emoticons as sent by your WLM contacts.
Buzz Support
Annoy your friends with buzz! Now featured on WLM.
Yahoo! Interoperability
Communicate directly with Yahoo! users on WLM and vice versa, with basic support for messaging, typing notifications, and buzz support.
Yahoo! Messenger
Messaging
Communicate with styled and formatted messaging.
Typing Notifications
Know when your contacts are composing a message and vice versa.
Invisibility
Hide from the world when you can't bear to hear another IM noise with full invisibility support.
Offline Messaging
Never miss a thing with timestamped offline messages.
File Transfers with Proxying
Sending files and other documents is a breeze with powerful file transfer support, including server proxying for restrictive firewalls.
Full Yahoo! Privacy Settings
Seamlessly transition to Trillian with the same privacy settings you're used to when using the Yahoo! Messenger software, including Ignore List.
Group Conversations
Invite multiple users to a Yahoo! Conference with only a few mouse clicks.
Webcams
Broadcast your webcam to your contacts with full permission and privacy list support. Easily view the webcam of other contacts as well.
Yahoo! Mail Integration
Automatically be notified when you receive new mail on your Yahoo! Mail account, including automatic login.
Yahoo! Chat Rooms
Join active Yahoo! Chat Rooms.
WLM Interoperability
Communicate directly with WLM users on Yahoo! and vice versa, with basic support for messaging, typing notifications, and buzz support.
HTTP Gatewaying
Enable full Yahoo! compatibility in restrictive network environments with the automatic HTTP gatewaying feature, ensuring you can always reach your friends even if standard routes of communication are blocked. Requires basic HTTP access to Yahoo! gatewaying servers.
Improved Formatting and Color Support
Express yourself with additional support for the full spectrum of the color wheel - your conversations are no longer limited to 16 colors.
Buzz Support
Annoy your friends with buzz! Now featured on Yahoo! Messenger.
New Group Chat Browser for Yahoo Chat Rooms
Easily browse through available chat rooms with our new chat browser window.