Url shortening services are getting popular, especially now that microblogging networks are extensively used. Since the length of a microblogging post is usually limited, a shortened url comes handy for it saves precious characters. A shortened url is a sort of “compressed” url. For example if you point your browser to: http://is.gd/2 you will be …
Posty 1.6 is out
Posted by CesareA 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 …
As you know the Adobe Air framework enables the addition of a drop shadow to applications. I happened to get into this issue when I was trying to add a dropShadow to Posty. The WindowedApplication Flex tag includes two intuitively named tags: dropShadowEnabled, which is boolean, and dropShadowColor which expects an hexadecimal color. So it …
I got interviewed about Posty! Thanks to Dan Thornton for the opportunity. Click here to read the interview. The question I liked most: “Was Adobe Air easy to work with? Does it offer significant advantages?”
The popular Jaiku service, bought by Google one year ago, is back online! Now it runs on the new Google App Engine, which should guarantee more stability and speed. Let’s hope they update also the api service, with new functionalities, which I’d like to include in Posty I’d like to see: friends posts verify credentials …
