Archive of April 2009
April 20, 09
Falling in love with Tweetie, betraying Nambu
Yay, yet another Twitter client for OS X Tweetie has been just released today. I've recently switched from Twitterific to Nambu and absolutely loved the translate option and the Mail like interface – and wasn't really keen of moving onto a different one again, but decided to give it a go. And... I absolutely fell in love with it. So I had to betray Nambu... well, we'll see, maybe it's just a Tweetie affair or a short romance?
Nambu
- Translate any tweet to English
- Built in option to hide from the dock
- It's free
- Decodes short links and replaces them in a tweet so you know what to expect
- Growl integration (to break your concentration even more)
- No global keyboard shortcut to show/hide
Tweetie
- Lovely interface and motion tweens (eye candy)
- Customisable shortcut to show/hide the app (as in Twitterific, I usually set it to ALT + ~)
- Bookmarklet to easily tweet current browser's URL
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No hide from the dock option (could be easily fixed by adding
<key>NSUIElement</key><string>1</string>to theInfo.plistfile) - No Growl integration (Colin reckons it will be there soon)
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It's free but you have to like ads and the startup nag, otherwise it's
$19.99$14.95 (promo till 4th of May)
Both Tweetie and Nambu have support for URL shortening services, marking read tweets and setting custom font sizes.
05:45 PM | notes | 1 Comment | Tags: twitter, osx