A while ago I posted a comment on SixRevisions, which is a great source for web developers and designers. Everyday they publish inspiring articles and tutorials. The internet is full of posts on Twitter, but SixRevision published a really interesting one,
10 Features That Will Make Twitter Better, the one I commented.
The guys behind SixRevisions decided to select the most interesting comments and asked authors to elaborate on them. And my comment was selected. Here is the result, 11 Excellent Twitter Improvement Ideas and my contribution is the 9th.

Thanks Jacob and colleagues for the opportunity!

A new release of Posty is available. Download it from the Posty home page.
Please find the change log below.

PS: Posty has now a new signed certificate. The automatic update from previous versions might fail. You might need to uninstall the old version before installing the new one.

CHANGE LOG

• post panel always visible at the bottom
• custom panel: configurable to show the timelines you like
• added “check for updates now” button
• fixed double monitor bug
• hide show commands on rollover
• added options in twitter/friendfeed search
• solved tumblr login bug
• tweaked blue and green theme
• toggle buttons to choose the service to be updated
• new timelines: twitter and identi.ca favorites

There are many suggestions on who to follow on Twitter, enable also by tools like Twubble and Twitdir.
As far as I know there are much less posts about un-following. Here is my take.


Continues on Louis Gray’s blog.


Thanks Louis for the opportunity!

A new release of Posty is out today. On time to be put under the Christmas tree.
Here is the change log.
Enjoy!

• nine new graphical themes to customize the look and feel
• new Panel layout to quicken the choice between tabs
• a new tab, Friends, to read in one shot the updates from your Twitter and Identica
• improved notification of new tweets. (drag the window to position it as you prefer)
• possibility to choose the font from the list of installed fonts
• possibility to delete sensible data (usernames and passwords)
• better memory management. less memory consumption

To download it go to the Posty home page.

A new version of Posty has been released today. This is the best release of Posty ever with a lot of new features!

• Automatic updates. Upon confirmation Posty downloads and installs new versions.
• Improved usability of login forms (which show up when needed)
• Clickable in-text links
• Url shortening (via http://is.gd/)
• Support to Twitter Direct Messages
• Support to Identi.ca Direct Messages
• Configurable notifications of new Twitter updates
• Support to Retweet
• Support to Twitter favorites
• Support to Identi.ca favorites
• Memorization of services to update, preselected on startup
• Choice of active services to be displayed on startup

To download it go to Posty home page.


Special thanks to beta testers who helped identifying bugs and collaborated by sending details.

I took some time to test Posty on Linux. Inspite the fact that Adobe Air for Linux is still alpha version, I am surprised that Posty runs fine on major Linux distributions. The only issue, first identified by Daria, is that Posty is memoryless, that is you set it to remember login data, but when you run the application again, you have to re-enter data again. I am in contact with Adobe engineers to discuss the issue.

The first distro I tried is PcLinuxOs. Very easy to install on Paralles. It also associated the .air file extension to the Air installer application. AS you can see in the video, you click on the .air file and Posty installs.

Then I tried OpenSuse. Like PcLinuxOs was easy to install and set up. i had to run Adobe Air installer from the console. It is located in the /opt folder:


/opt/Adobe AIR/Versions/1.0


Finally I tried Knoppix, which was the quickest to boot.

I also tried CentOs, but it thrown an “Error loading the runtime” and Slax 6.0.7, which asked me to be root, whereas I already was logged as root.

UPDATE: Thanks to derek who was able to run Adobe Air and Posty on CentOS. Here is the screencast.

Credits:

• Distrowatch
• LivecdList

Thanks to Daria, who first tried installing Posty on Ubuntu 7.10 and inspired me to test Posty on other distributions.


UPDATE: An Adobe Air engineer told me that Encrypted Local Store is not yet implemented on the Linux version of Adobe Air.

Update: Final version available here.


A new release of Posty is available, with support to four networks: twitter, jaiku, pownce and tumblr. A quick recap of the features:

• write a message a post it to each service with one click
• browse personal and public notes
• reply to twitter and pownce notes
• full browsing of tumblog, with rendering of audio, video, conversation, etc.

Download Posty.

A screenshot of the main interface.


A screenshot of the twitter interface.
To run Posty you need the Adobe Air installer.
For any comment, suggestion, curiosity or feedback: posty AT spreadingfunkyness.com.

Update: new version of posty here. 

Are you a microblogger? Wanna quickly post on your social places? Posty is for you! To update a social network, three steps are usually needed:

• Login
• Write message
• Click post

After a while, the update of your profile can get boring, because of repeated actions.With Posty you write a message once, choose the services to update, and click post. That’s all!

 

 

At the moment posty supports posting to Twitter, Jaiku and Pownce. Give it a try.Quick instructions. Posty is an Adobe air application. It runs on MacOsx and Windows (Xp/Vista). To run Posty you need to download Adobe Air installer.