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Xobni

Saleh Alzaid — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:41:05 +0000

Xobni is a sidebar application for Microsoft Outlook that can show recent tweets for people that email you. Simply click on an email in Outlook and the sidebar updates to show you a list of possible Twitter IDs for that person. Once you choose their ID, you can view, retweet, and reply to their tweets. You can also tweet from within the Xobni sidebar at any time.

Great simple way to connects with your Outlook contacts with Twitter.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very simple interface	Makes OutLook slow sometimes
Has other features like Facebook and LinkedIn connections
Auto detection for your contacts accounts in Twitter and Facebook

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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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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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Hummingbird

Saleh Alzaid — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:04:05 +0000

Hummingbird is an intelligent Twitter marketing tool. It targets and auto follows Twitter accounts based on keywords. It also provides stats and reports of your account, followers, and interested tweets.

As an Adobe Air app, Hummingbird supports Windows and Mac OSX (it should support Linux though it’s not written in Hummingbird website. Strange uh?). One cool feature of Hummingbird is that it supports 3rd party plugins and most of them are free. Unfortunately Hummingbird itself is not free and kinda expensive.. 197$! and there’s not trial version to test.. At least the screenshots shows some of the mentioned features.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very solid interface	Very expensive! 197$
Has huge number of sophisticated features	No trial version to test
Supports multiple accounts
Intelligent and automated solution

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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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Archivist

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:24:47 +0000

Archivist is a Twitter desktop app for Windows that aims to archive tweets for later use or search. The app is simple, just write a word and Archivist will search for its latest tweets and keeps updating every 5 minutes.

The problem this Twitter app is trying to solve is that Twitter search can’t show more than 1500 tweets of a certain word search, also, many Twitter users I’ve faced missing old tweets. Archivist comes to store the tweets on your desktop as XML files, or even export them to Microsoft Excel.

One big con of Archivist is it can only archive the tweets of a word search, not the tweets of your time line and your friends. Also the Archivist search criteria is very week offering only search for words, not users, not in a time or other options as what Twitter search offers.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Good simple idea to archive tweets	Can only archive tweets of a search term, not your or your friends tweets
Auto search and save tweets every 5 minutes	Doesn’t offer options in search as Twitter search
Ability to export tweets as a file for Microsoft Execl	Exporting to Excel doesn’t support Unicode characters
Provides statistical graphs

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Flyar

Saleh Alzaid — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:55:17 +0000

Flyar is an interactive Twitter screensaver based on Augmented Reality and gesture interaction technologies using your webcam for capturing motions. The application is so funny and lets feel the real noise of Twitter

It’s difficult to explain this visualization project .. just watch!

Flyar only runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 and requires .NET 3.5 framework SP1, updated DirectX drivers, Visual C++ 2005 and 2008 Redistributable SP1, and of course, a webcam.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very fun to use	Will you keep it as your primary screensaver? I mean.. seriously.. plus it’s too noisy :S
Well implementation of Augmented Reality and gesture interaction technologies

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Flitter

Saleh Alzaid — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:03:44 +0000

Flitter is an awesome Windows screensaver for Twitter and Flickr. It’s free and open-source app built with .NET framework. The screensaver is highly configurable, you can watch the last tweets or pics from the public timeline of Twitter or Flickr, or watch specific users. You can also watch your Twitter and Flickr network.

To install the screen saver, you need to right click on the Flitter.scr file and choose “Install” from the menu.

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Very pretty interface	Doesn’t use OAuth for Twitter authentication
Free and open-source	No option to view the tweets containing specific words/hashtags
Has more setting than other Twitter screensaver apps

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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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Quitter

Saleh Alzaid — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:00:30 +0000

Quitter is a command line Twitter client for geeks!! It’s built using .NET framework and works on Windows. Although it’s a command line app, it has many features like grouping, filters, URL shortening .. and of course, shortcut!

It’s open-sourced and available on Google code . The app also provides a Twitter API for VB.NET named TwitterVB.

The ultimate Twitter client for geeks I wish if it is recompiled with Mono framework to work on Linux!

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Has many features	For geeks…only!
Fun to use
Supports library for developers