February 4, 2010 • 1:43 pm 0
Buzzbird was primarily developed for and on Mac but is available for Windows and Linux. It is not a complicated client with a streamlined interface and not too many features.
Multiple accounts, the number of unreads and other features are included up to this point. Scrolling back it is almost a year old and each point release makes some huge leaps in fixes and enhancements. A client to keep an eye on for sure.
November 12, 2009 • 2:54 pm 0
Just about every Adobe AIR app you’ll ever come across will look great. It’s only right that Twitter AIR clients follow the same rules. Saezuri is no exception!
Available for Linux, Windows, and Mac, Saezuri is a stunning new Adobe AIR Twitter client. It’s also one of the first AIR clients to support Twitter’s oAuth for logging in. What does this mean? You don’t have to hand over your credentials. In fact, once you allow Saezuri access to your Twitter account a pin is generated that allows you to log-in to your Twitter account.
Saezuri is lightweight, lightening fast, with access to multiple accounts, search, and other default Twitter features…except lists. It even provides a few nice custom themes, known as Skins, to customize Saezuri to match your desktop or your style. You can also tweak how often this Twitter client accesses your timeline for updates.
Filed under: Desktop Clients, Linux, Mac, PC, Twitter Clients, adobe_air, AIR, saezuri
November 11, 2009 • 9:29 am 0
Bluto is an app that grew out of IBM, based on Adobe Air, that combines Twitter and Lotus Connections feeds into a single client. You can cross point to both or choose a single site to post to. The basics are there, like follow, unfollow, retweet and reply. More advanced features are not, and likely won’t be coming as this was just placed out on a whim with no promise of updates.
IBM runs their own internal Twitter like system called BlueTwit, but with the inclusion of microblogging capabilities in Lotus Connections, a client like this was needed. You can see more of a review from the IdoNotes blog.
Filed under: Linux, Mac, PC, adobe_air, BlueTwit, lotus_connections
September 15, 2009 • 7:07 am 0
August 18, 2009 • 8:35 am 0
T-Messenger tags itself as the Twitter client for the everyday user. While it is based on Adobe Air, they went for the approach that you have basic needs and some other functions to be productive using Twitter. The other tools are for the power users and more. After reading and seeing it, the client did more than everyday use:
Filed under: Linux, Mac, PC, adobe_air, filtering, groups, pics
July 28, 2009 • 8:22 am 0
Twitteron is a nice UI that is skinnable with numerous features inside. The site lists most of the features:
* The ability to run on any OS that supports Adobe AIR
* A smooth, and rich graphical interface
* Browser-like navigation, with back, forward and refresh capability
* One-click access to uploading pictures to TwitPic!
* One-click access to shrinking links
* The ability to search all of twitter with the built in search box!
* The ability to see larger pictures of friends/followers of yours and others!
* Notification capability, with fine tuning of the rate of requests
* Display of your rate limit, along with the reset time
* Adjustable TwitPic/Photo sizes
* Choose an endless amount of colors with custom hue/saturation/lightness sliders
* Custom search notifications!
Twitpics are all rendered inline, no more jumping out to a webpage or relying in popups. That was about the whole list. I did not load the client but a live stream (using tweetgrid) showed numerous people talking about it. Most good, some were not happy. Remember this is still in beta, with no updates since May, which worries me.
Filed under: Desktop Clients, Linux, Mac, PC, adobe_air, skinnable, twitpic
June 5, 2009 • 8:12 am 0
We highlighted Mixero just days ago and gave away 50 invites to our closest friends, our readers. Well the team at Mixero has been gracious enough to give our readers another 100 invites. Apparently we send all the cool people their direction.
The updates to the Mixero client are coming along fast and get better each time. They are listening to enhancement requests as well as performance issues anyone encounters.
Spread the word and don’t wait this time too long, I got plenty of @ replies and emails asking for an invite after they were all gone. Here is your chance.
invite code: everythingtwitter to the first 100 people. Links on our review posting
Filed under: Group Management, iPhone, Linux, Mac, PC, adobe_air, Mixero
May 28, 2009 • 8:00 am 9
Mixero didn’t just come running out of the gates based on Adobe Air, it came out with a plan to beat the other clients. I will have a screencast available also showing off what you can do. The slogan of Mixero is Reducing the Noise and they are well on their way.
The middle column (all screenshots here) became important after learning the client interface. It can become a hub of what is recently updated as well as channels, groups and individuals. Basically a quick view of who updated and how many times.
Channels can be built around a keyword and even limited to certain users
Groups are easily created with type ahead ability to make adding users quick
You are able to preview not only pictures, but also YouTube videos right in the client interface. This gives you the ability to safely view linked pictures as well as move quickly through tweets. With the groups and channels you can streamline your experience further.
Multiple URL shorteners are available for you to automatically shorten URLs after a length you specify. You are also able to see links in tweets automatically expanded to see where you are headed before clicking.
Overall the UI is clean and customizable and comes with some themes built in. I was impressed at how I could open different panels, float specific parts and then I encountered the killers. First was true unread marks. In other clients when you mark a tweet as read it still shows in the timeline. In Mixero you can hide all read tweets (easily shown with a click) to only see the new items. Then I found the other feature.
Avatar mode. This new feature they put into the beta allows you to reduce the entire interface into pictures that can sit on top of whatever application you are running outside of Mixero. You then see updates from those (with unread count) and allows you to hover over the avatar and see the recent tweet. This boosts productivity incredibly by allowing to maximize screen real estate while following the flow. If it is too much, add some filters to trim it to even more pertinent information.
Whoa, as writing this I found yet another cool part. Tweets that are part of a thread have a tiny icon that when hovered over allows you to follow the full conversation! Too cool. Also when you reply it highlights the tweet you respond to as well as shows it is now a conversation.
So I know what you are looking for, the invite code. First you need the download link for the client itself and that is right here.
Once you get it loaded, enter your twitter username, password and the following first 50 47 people will get right in with this passcode! (TheSocialGeeks had to get some first)
everythingtwitter
Filed under: Group Management, iPhone, Linux, Mac, PC, adobe_air, Twitter Clients
April 30, 2009 • 11:28 am 0
Statuzer is in early beta with some promising features:
# fully customisable color scheme
# MP3 Playing from song.ly and tra.kz
# Jamendo music search (free and legal)
# Displays twitpic images in tweet
# Youtube Thumbs
# Twitter search moving Trends
# Hashtags
# Fast display filter
# contacts groups
# followable Twitter searches
# notifications
# URLs preview
# image/webcam upload
# image/webcam upload to twitter profile image
# multi-account
# search filters
# short URLs (Twitter API)
# encode/decode MinUrl and TinyUrl
I did not load this yet, but our own Jeffisageek has done some early testing. Let us know how it goes.
May 27, 2008 • 2:03 pm 0
This will run as long as you have the current Java that the app requires.
Some nice features recently listed:
# Resizable full screen display
# Images visible on the timeline; they load in the background to minimize delay
# Add/ Remove friends right from your desktop
# Send direct messages to your friends ( replies are still sent the same way: @username )
# Notification on updates to the friends timeline, even when minimized to the system tray ( the public timeline is going to be different in any case, so no notifications there! )
# Customizable UI ( you can set the colors i.e. 
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# Turn off notifications from the system tray when minimized
# Select a format for the data from Twitter in case of problems (the default ‘JSON’ option is still recommended and is required for most operations)
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