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Google Desktop Twitter Gadget

Saleh Alzaid — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:57:54 +0000

Google has provided a Twitter gadget for Google Desktop. Now you can have Twitter in Google Desktop side bar of your system (Windows, Mac, or Linux).

The problem with the gadget it has limited features and doesn’t support multiple account. Very minimal.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Simple gadget	Limited features
Works with Google Desktop in Wndows, Mac and Linux	Doesn’t support multiple Twitter accounts
	Doesn’t support internet proxy settings

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Termtter

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:27:51 +0000

Termtter is a terminal based Twitter client written in Ruby language. You can post tweets, send direct messages, view followers, and more using shell commands! A geeky type of apps.. Also Termtter supports plugins to extend the functionality of the app.

Termtter can run in Linux and MacOS. For Windows users, there’s Quitter, a command line Twitter app.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Shell based app	For geeks… only!
Supports plugins	No direct ability to change the logged in Twitter account (you have to change a config file to do that!)
Has many features

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Kzalek

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:49:30 +0000

Kzalek is a decent Adobe Air Twitter client for Arabic users. Adobe Air apps have problems in viewing Arabic fonts in Mac and Linux (as well Flash). Kzalek solves this issue and also provides right to left (RTL) view for Arabic tweets.

What makes Kzalek lovely is it’s simple minimal interface plus the features that are presented in small neat icons. Features like translating tweets to Arabic, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and uploading images to TwitPic.

Kzalek still in beta supporting an Arabic interface only for now. It seems promising in future as global Twitter client in case the English interface is supported. Note that Spaz Adobe Air app also support Arabic encoding in tweets.

Developed by Mustafa Farghaly. More on ArabCrunch.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very easy to use, simple and pretty interface	Doesn’t provide an English interface
Works on Windows, Mac and Linux with full Arabic font support	No option to view your sent direct messages
Automatically right align Arabic tweet
Provides an Arabic translating option for tweets

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AlertThingy

Saleh Alzaid — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:05:25 +0000

AlertThingy is an Adobe Air application that supports Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, RSS feeds, and many more web 2.0 social services. With AlertThingy you will able to control the steam of alerts, tweets, Facebook notifications and others all in one place. And you can divide Twitter users, Facebook friends, customized RSS feeds into groups! Powerful app.

AlertThingy also provides another version dedicated for FriendFeed.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very pretty and simple interface	Doesn’t support Arabic charterers in Mac and Linux (Adobe Air bug)
Provide an easy way to control the streams of tweets, Facebook notifications, RSS feeds and more
Adobe air app supporting Windows, Linux and Mac
You mix Twitter users, Facebook friends and RSS feeds in groups

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Choqok

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:09:44 +0000

Choqok is a micro-blogging client for Linux K Desktop Environment (KDE). It’s free and open source application supporting Twitter and Identi.ca.

The name “choqok” comes from an ancient Persian word which means Sparrow!

ChoqoK has many features like multiple accounts, supporting right to left (RTL) languages, TwitPic integration, KWallet integration, ability to notify user about new statuses text with KNotification or Libnotify, expanding shortened URLs using Untiny service, and many others.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Can be slow in opening when there are many tweets
Supports Twitter and Identi.ca	Has some bugs because of the re programming of the new version
Integrates with Linux environment sub systems (like KWallet and KNotification)
Free and open source application
Supports right to left languages
Displays emotions as images

Related Twitter Apps

Gwibber

Saleh Alzaid — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:04:52 +0000

Gwibber is a Linux twitter client work with GNOME and developed with Python and GTK. It supports also other mircoblogging services like Jaiku and Identi.ca. And social networks as well like Facebook, Flickr and Digg. Also support using RSS feeds.

Gwibber is an open-source app under GNU license and available on LanuchPad.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Supports many micro-blogging and social networks services
Free and open-source app

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Ada

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:25:26 +0000

Ada is a very simple minimal cute Adobe Air app for twitter. Ada doesn’t have many features but a good option for small computers and netbooks. Ada is open-sourced in github and any one can modify it.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple cute interface	Doesn’t have many features
Best for netbooks and small computers.
Works on Windows, Mac and Linux

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DestroyTwitter

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:17:38 +0000

DestroyTwitter is an Adobe Air twitter client application working on Windows, Mac and Linux. Like Mixero, you can organize your followers and followings to groups, or group based on keywords tweeted.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very nice user interface	[Mac Version] No support for Arabic characters
Change theme or build one
Group followers, folllowings, or keywords!
Key shortcuts
Supports different URL shortening and photo uploading services

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Mixero

Saleh Alzaid — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:48:26 +0000

Mixero is a smart Twitter client helps in controlling the flow and noise of information. Considered as a new generation of Twitter clients, Mixero is an Adobe Air app with full synchronization capabilities and an iPhone app also will be available soon.

I’ll describe the most important features of Mixero here and you can learn more from visiting Mixero site and watching their video.

Groups
Divide people you follow into groups and get tweets of each group separately. Groups are synchronized to any Mixero client you use.

Filters
When it’s difficult to keep tracing the current flow of tweets about one subject, use filters. Write a word in the filter bar and it will filter all current tweets to that word and any coming tweets too. You can use it as a search tool.

Channels
Make a channel that monitors all Twitter tweets about one subject/trend in real time! Channels can monitor all Twitter tweets or tweets from specified users. I created a channel for “twtbase” to keep updated about any twtbase related tweets!

Active List
Active list is the bar in the middle. It’s the place for your favorite/latest Twitter users, groups, or channels.

Context
A context is the configuration and the arrangement of your Mixero client. You can have for example two contexts, one for using Mixero at home and another for work.

UI, Url Shortening, Auto Completion and More
Mixero has very nice UI. I like most the Avatar Mode (see pic below). It lists your Active List avatars to right side of the screen. Mixero also provides choosing what shortening service you use for sharing links. And auto completes a twitter username while writing. There are more nice features I haven’t cover here.

Needs Some Enhancements? Suggestions?
Mixero overall is great! but I wish to see some more features in Mixero like:

Having multiple twitter accounts for one Mixero client (switching between twitter accounts)
More controlling on your tweets (e.g. send this tweet after an amount of time)
Blocking tweets of some users for an amount of time

Suggest any if you feel so. Mixero is currently in beta and registration is available through promocode invitations only. Follow Mixero twitter account and they will send you an invitation with few days. Or..

200 Promocodes For TwtBase Users! Try It Now!
Thanks for Mixero for giving twtbase 200 promocodes for our users! Download Mixero for here and the promocode is: twtbase

Related Twitter Apps

Spreadtweet

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:24:13 +0000

Spreadtweet is a clever Twitter app disguised as a spreadsheet, so it looks like you’re doing work when you’re actually using Twitter!

It has three versions (interfaces)Office OSX, Office 2003, and Office 2007.