Alonia

Alonia is a feature-rich instant messaging service that integrates some useful tools for talking to people from all over the world. It is also possible to make phone calls or send text messages. The tool can be seamlessly figured out by users of any skill level.

In order to use this application, you must create a free account that requires email validation. The interface of Alonia looks professional and its interface is quite intuitive.

You can add contacts by writing their display name and phone number, as well as organize them into groups. Browsing an endless list of contacts is possible through a real-time search function.

Besides talking to another person through text messages, you can make an audio or video call, or send files. It is possible to call friends or send them an SMS (as long as your system is connected to a telephony service), check out a history list of conversation details, as well as read Romanian news and listen to Romanian radio stations.

You may browse the web through a search bar placed on the top of the screen (results are brought up in the default web browser), as well as export phone numbers or import a phone book. One of the most import features of Alonia is that it allows you to manage multiple accounts from other instant messengers, based on Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Google. Plus, you can create an ignore list.

A wide range of options is available through the Settings screen. Thus, you can make the frame stay on top of other windows, switch the UI language from English to Romanian, set proxy parameters, log messages, as well as test the audio device, among others. Settings can be restored to their default values.

Alonia runs on a high amount of CPU and system memory, has a fair response time and works smoothly. We have not encountered any problems throughout our testing, since the tool did not hang, crash or pop up error dialogs. There's also a help file available.

However, it may take a while to load the workspace at startup. Other than that, Alonia comes bundled with some rich features for communicating with other people online.