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At long last, Cerulean Studios has released Trillian Astra, the long-awaited next version of its popular multi-protocol instant messaging client. Currently, Trillian Astra is avtrillian-logoailable an invite-only download, this Cerulean Studios product is best in its class.

Trillian Astra helps you organize your online life with its powerful and flexible interface for IM, social networks, content syndication, the Web, and email.

Trillian was not the first IM app to offer multi-network connectivity, but it stood out of the crowd thanks to an intuitive interface design that helped users manage their contacts from different networks in a much easier way.

The program now supports Live Messenger, AOL Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, ICQ, Facebook, MySpaceIM,  Skype, Jabber, IRC, Twitter, e-mail accounts (POP3 and IMAP) and Bonjour, besides the Astra proprietary network. Trillian Astra boasts a nice interface design, though it can get quite bloated with contacts lists from a dozen different IM platforms. Trillian Astra is now at a beta testing phase, but if you are too curious to wait until the final official release, fill in this form, sign up to subscribe as beta tester and you’ll probably get an invite soon. Mine took hardly a couple of minutes to arrive.

Some of the interesting Features Trillian Astro offers:

• One Login for all accounts
• Offline Messaging
• File transfers with proxying
• Video & voice calls
• Easy inline image transfer
• Sign on from multiple locations
• History window
• Bookmarking
• Group Conversations
• Program Execution & control
• Tabbed windows
• Color themes
• Your contact list everywhere
• Protocol refresh
• Powerful plugins