


The new Trillian Astra is a powerful tool to organize your online life and you can check out its long list of features. Trillian is a popular multi-IM client that lets you connect to multiple IM and social networks at the same time, managing contacts and real time status feeds efficiently. In the same vein, bringing in Facebook means being being asked to allow the app to publish posts or comments without prompting you (I said no).Now you can finally download Trillian for Mac multi-IM chat client and chat on Windows Live, Yahoo!, MySpaceIM, AIM, Google, ICQ, Jabber, Skype, IRC, and manage your Email, Facebook, and Twitter all together. You’re even prompted to supply your marital status and sexual orientation, which seems a little odd for anything other than a dating service.

When you install the app and sign up for Astra, you’ll go through a series of forms that ask for your name, age and date of birth. However, the Astra service wants to make a host of other information entirely public. Your identities and account logins are likewise stored online, encrypted and only readable by you, according to Cerulean Studios. Using the program means signing up for the service, which allows for centrally storing your contact list for use whenever you install Trillian Astra. While Trillian Astra contains a host of additional features, the most notable for the new version is the Astra service itself. From the same window you can also kick off a group chat session, or view a history of your chats with that particular contact.

The handy tabbed window used for chat conversations can contain multiple conversations at once, or you can have it split up according to contact groups.
