Build 78 is now available.

	Widget Info Cards: Social Widgets are even more useful with Info Cards. Move your mouse cursor over a miniaturized widget and it will show you extended information from the widget itself. It works for all widgets on the contact list and in chat windows, allowing you to get a much better idea of, say, what song your friend is listening to. It also helps you compact up your contact list if you don’t prefer to see the full version all the time.
	Full weather forecast (with data provided by weather.com): Widgets have been updated to be even more powerful. Besides using interactive graphics to display current conditions, our Weather widget can now also show barometer readings, “Feels Like” temperature and two days of weather forecasts in the Info Card. Furthermore, the full widget has direct links to forecast videos, radar and more.
	Google Voice support: The voice call implementation by Google is now supported in Trillian Astra. You can now talk to other Google Talk users!
	Initial Window Size, Position and Interiors: One of the original and most voted features, the ability to set the initial position and size of message windows has been implemented with a bang! The brand new interface requires no geekery of any sort (manually punching numbers!). Simply go to Message Windows Preferences and choose “Set Default Size, Positions and Interiors” under the Default Appearance group. Drag, drop, and resize the window to anywhere on the screen; you can even set how big the text boxes are or how transparent the window should be (through View button)! The feature also supports multiple monitors.
	Bonjour, Server-less IM! This wonderful way to instantly set up a local messaging network is now updated with a new core backend from Apple, as well as new codes to support Trillian Astra IMCore. You can now also add a Bonjour connection to any of your identities, not just the default identity! The renewed plugin sports a new name (not Rendezvous anymore) and a new look. If you haven’t discovered this nifty feature already, please check out our good olde Feature Tour.

Build 77 re-introduces the ability to join Yahoo and AIM chat rooms and polishes up some of the existing interfaces for creating group conferences for both Yahoo, Windows Live and AIM.

To join a chat room on Yahoo and AIM, click the “Join a Chat…” menu item from the menu of your Yahoo or AIM connection icon on your Connections bar. Be careful when joining Yahoo chat rooms if you don’t know where you’re going - the rooms are largely full of bots that immediately add you to their spam lists.

Enjoy the build!

After years in secret development, today we proudly announce our new direction for the company: Trillian for Dogs!

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In response to some of the major bugs introduced in Build 75, we’re releasing a quick Build 76 update today. We’ll continue to monitor Bugzilla for any outstanding major issues; in the meantime, we are now working towards Build 77.

Thanks!

Build 75 has landed, showcasing over four weeks of work! As it was necessary to upgrade both the Trillian client and Astra server at the same to enable the video chat feature, many other features have been worked on simultaneously. Auto-update is off again this week; please download the new build manually. You will no longer be able to use older builds to connect to the Astra network.

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