Posts Tagged "twitter"
Managing your Online Reading
Twitter, Facebook, RSS feeds, Mail – we all get more links to articles and webpages nowadays than ever before. I would often find myself coming across an interesting article, but would lose track of it in a mess of tabs, unless I read it right away.
Bookmaking is the most obvious option, but you risk cluttering your useful bookmarks with lots of items you’ll only look at once. So how can you organise your reading? Here’s the system I use…
JetLinked: Tweetie for Mac
Enough has been said about Tweetie for Mac, so I’m just going to link to it, in case you’ve been living under a rock and have missed it.
Bottom line is: The UI is fantastic, support for dragged in images is great and I believe it sets the bar a little higher for UI design on the Mac in general.
There are some additional features I’d like to see at some point, but from the look of the responses on Atebit’s Get Satisfaction page, some of them are already planned.
- Support for stored searches
- Sync state with the mobile version and across Mac
You can find out more about Tweetie on the Atebits website.
Read MoreFirst Look: Lounge for OS X
Stop the presses tweets! There’s a new Twitter app in town!
For a while now Twitterific has ruled the roost when it comes to desktop apps for OS X. This is primarily due to the fact that there actually aren’t that many decent Mac clients around, despite the plethora of options for the iPhone.
(Note: Yes, there are a whole host of Air apps, iChat plugins, multi-purpose social updaters and Dashboard widgets, but I’m only talking about Cocoa-based, OS X-ish Mac apps.)
That’s about to change: Bluebird, Beak and Lounge are three new OS X native apps announced for release this Spring.
First impressions
Lounge for the Mac is still very much a work in progress, but is already quite stable and reliable. The UI makes it easy to access all the Twitter features you’ve come to expect and the ability to save searches as Groups is also very useful. Unlike some apps the UI doesn’t try to overwhelm you with multiple message lists. Support for multiple accounts, retweeting, a Services menu and the ability to ‘drill down’ into people’s @replies, user profiles and links rounds out the experience.
One feature that I’m particularly fond of is the ability to sync your read-status with the iPhone companion app that is already available on the App Store.
Pricing for the Mac version of Lounge hasn’t yet been announced, but you can test drive the beta version until its expiration date, July 1st.
Gripes
Lounge still lacks some features such as Picture support, built-in url shortening etc. that some users will probably miss, but it’s early days yet…
Conclusion
Definitely worth checking out if you’re looking for a slightly different take in the desktop Twitter app genre.
Read More