Trillian for Mac: Growl support and more preferences! (1.0 Build 103)
Thanks to everyone for taking a look at our Mac alpha release! This week we spent time carefully analyzing all of the feedback we’ve received and are happy to announce Build 103. Notable changes:
- Basic Growl Support: A handful of many common events can now be sent directly to Growl.
- Sound Preferences: You can disable or enable different sounds individually, or mute all sounds if you so choose.
- Debug Logs: Standard Trillian debug logs will improve our ability to diagnose bugs!
- More: View the changelog for details.
In a future build, we’ll be adding a fully-featured events system into Trillian for Mac, similar to the Windows product. This system will include the ability to bind an arbitrary number actions to program-generated events and more!
If you’re using Build 102, you should receive an automatic update the next time you start Trillian for Mac. This will be our first “in the wild” test of the auto-update code, and we do anticipate that a few bugs will need to be ironed out. If the automatic update process fails for you, you can always grab the new build on the download page. Please be sure to file a bug report if you notice an issue with our updater. Have a great weekend!
February 5th, 2010 at 10:28 pm
Nice Job guys!
February 5th, 2010 at 10:29 pm
Thanks, Cerulean! Looks amazing!
February 5th, 2010 at 10:35 pm
nice build guys, appreciate it! Love the updater!
February 5th, 2010 at 10:41 pm
Loving the quick releases! I feel like after the next release Trillian will be better than Adium!
February 5th, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Works beautifully.. my showstoppers are fixed now. Thanks! You rock Sparks (all of you guys at CS do too)
February 5th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
Thanks for the quick release of another build. Nice release. Keep up the good work guys.
February 5th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Any chance the windows version will get growl support also?
February 5th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
ALRITE!!!! thats what am talking about, ive been waiting for the mac development for so loooong!!!
February 6th, 2010 at 2:39 am
Hi! It’s not possible to add AIM-Users on an ICQ Account, isn’t it? At least I can’t add UINs with letters in it.
Nice build so far! Thank you!
February 6th, 2010 at 4:26 am
That’s great, guys! Trillian Astra is the best instant messenger I’ve ever used, on any platform. And now I’ll finally be able to use on Mac too. Thank you, Cerulean team!
February 6th, 2010 at 7:12 am
A message-history would be very(!) nice
February 6th, 2010 at 11:13 am
Looks really cool again!
February 6th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
BTW. What happen to this interface?? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/249087/TrillianAstraDesignedInContextOfLeopard.png
February 6th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
What a nice alpha! Very solid. Of course I am a spoiled pro user and want all the other features I am addicted to, but a damn fine job so far. I am very close to saying good by to every other im product out there. I have trillian astra pro on windows, trillian on my iphone, trillian web for my linux, and now my Mac is feeling the love!
February 6th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
I meant “goodbye” not “good by”. Just so giddy about trillian on my mac….
February 8th, 2010 at 11:45 am
I downloaded the latest Trillian at work [Vista] and at home [Windows 7]. The current song feature doesn’t work at my work but it works at home. Is this a Vista issue? Is there way you can fix this?
Thanks!
February 8th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
I’m sure you guys are working on this but since it says to “help shape trillian” I’d like to suggest a rather important feature (for me at least) that should be implemented soon. The ability to sync up with your address book, Adium does this wonderfully and combines contacts from different IM clients together into one so you don’t have 5 John Smith’s on your list, not only is it convenient but it would clean things up a lot. I really appreciate the work you’ve done so far though…thanks!
February 9th, 2010 at 12:23 pm
@Bill … they are discussing this issue/request in some detail in the forums… perhaps you should pop into the Astra for Mac area and give your 2 cents. Rachel (the OS X developer) and Kid (the designer) are both active in the discussion there.
February 10th, 2010 at 3:22 am
The text that gets converted to smileys in the actual message window does not get output through Growl, to reproduce simply send someone “lol” and you’ll get an empty Growl alert.
February 12th, 2010 at 4:53 am
cooooool
February 23rd, 2010 at 2:46 pm
what about growl notifications in the windows version? You know we also have growl and it is easy to implement: http://www.growlforwindows.com/gfw/
February 25th, 2010 at 11:57 am
@tobsen, why would we need that when the Windows client already has notifications that you can customize to do whatever you want with…?
March 6th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
This has a long way to go. Even to compare to Adium which is entirely free for its mac base users. http://adium.im/. Not to mention their source in part has been used in the msn and yahoo mac clients. Kind of tells you how nice it is. And I am sure they are hoping to charge for features in Trillian mac. That Adium gives its users free. Additionally the Trillian mac GUI looks very similar in many ways to Adium. (they know a good GUI when they see it). Trillian can become better than Adium. However, at current build state. They still are far behind what Adium offers. And if they charge for this and still has less features than Adium. It would be a shame to the unknowing mac users.
March 8th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
@Dan, maybe that is why a) they are not charging for it, and b) it is still an alpha version, and c) they are STILL WORKING ON IT.
Adium is a dead duck, it never gets anything added anymore. It will only be a matter of time until Trillian is on top of OS X just like it is on top of Windows.
March 18th, 2010 at 10:44 am
We are working on Trillian for Android?
March 19th, 2010 at 8:44 pm
Well I actually just started using Adium after switching from iChat. Trillian was okay when I tried it but this interface is completely different than what it was originally going to look like. This is VERY disappointing. Trillian for Mac is ugly to say the least, especially when put next to the great Windows Trillian Astra.
March 21st, 2010 at 5:28 pm
@Jorge, no they are not doing that (yet).