Trillian Astra

Hell yeah! I just got accepted to the alpha program for Trillian Astra after months of waiting! "But Chris", you may ask, "Trillian runs on Windows, and you're using Linux." Well, I reinstalled XP Pro on half of my hard drive the other day (which is why it's ironic I was accepted today). I realized that I do need Photoshop to do certain things that I just can't do the same in GIMP, and having actual Office is always a plus for compatability. Not to mention, with Windowblinds 6, I can finally get the "Vista" look I wanted, blur and all, with XP. XP being more stable than Vista, I can also game again (I never did finish Half-Life 2). Not to mention, I plan on starting classes soon, and I'm more than sure that Ubuntu is not supported. Better to be fully compatible if possible, right? And I have the room to dual boot; all my documents, pictures, music, and videos are on my external hard drive. In fact, I have both OS's Document folders pointing the same folder, so everything is shared and synced.

And on the topic of Ubuntu, I also upgraded it to 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Tribe 4 (what they call their beta); it runs way better for me than 7.04 (Fiesty Fawn), and I can even use Compiz Fusion (REALLY cool desktop graphics effects) due to my lappy's graphics card finally being supported fully. And I can go on and on about Ubuntu Linux and how much I love it, but you've already read that crap. lol

But yeah, I split my 40 GB hard drive into two 20 GB partitions, Ubuntu Linux on one, Windows XP Pro on the other, share the documents, pictures, music, and videos between both, and everything is running great.

Back to Trillian Astra (the reason I actually started this post; can you tell how ADD I am?), it can be run on Mac OS X or Linux through it's flash based website. It's limited at the time, but the potential is cool.