#UPDATE: Since Twitter changed authorization mechanism, Posty 1.8.2 will not work with Twitter. I will update this post with a new version as soon as I can. Thanks.
There are many microblogging services out there. Sometimes you feel you have a “message” to send or a question to ask. If you subscribed many services, one of the first questions arising is: where do I post this? Twitter? Jaiku? Tumblr? Friendfeed? all of them? For each service usually you have to: open the browser, login, write message, click post. Although some cut and paste can save you some time, the task can get boring soon. Posty simplifies your microblogging. All you have to do is writing the message and clicking a button. Posty, an award winning application, will automatically deliver your message to the services you selected.
Currently supported networks are: Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Friendfeed and Identi.ca. Simplify your microblogging!
Direct link (zip file)
Here is a list of Posty’s features:
- browsing of personal, public and friends’ timeline
- posting of replies (Twitter, Friendfeed, Identi.ca)
- browsing and posting of direct messages (Twitter and Identi.ca)
- support to favorites (Twitter and Identi.ca)
- search of past messages (Twitter and Friendfeed)
- automatic, as-you-type, spellchecking of messages
- built-in url shortening service
- configurable notification of recently posted messages (Twitter)
- automatic notification and installation of new versions
- visualization of multimedia items (Youtube and Vimeo videos, Tumblr audio, Flickr/Zoomr/Smugmug galleries)
- automatic management of internet connection (works behind proxies!).
Posty is an Adobe Air application which runs on Windows (2000/XP/Vista), MacOsx (10.4.9 or more) and Linux.
To run Posty you need to download the Adobe Air installer.
Cool!
-DH
Good Work on the 1.0 release its looking really nice and like the additions!
excellent little app! love it… just what i was looking for. i especially like the fact that it picks up whether or not i’m directly connected to the internet or via my proxy at work. i suspect it’s picking up the IE settings… still… you’re that only Air app to do this seemlessly!!
thanks!
I am quite getting used to it now, thanks!
-Sam
nice! gonna check this one out.
Looks like it is time for Identi.ca support…
@derrick as soon as they release the api I will integrate identi.ca
wow… Posty is a great, much needed app…
two thoughts:
1) Posty would be an amazing iphone app! Any possibilities? I was under the impression that AIR can be used to develop iphone apps.
2) What about integrating facebook status updates as well?
thanks for a great little app!
Great little app. This is what makes AIR so cool. Thanks!
Great app!!
I really love this, GREAT IDEA! I was looking for something like this for awhile now. Thanks!
Hey, thanks a lot for adding support for Identi.ca! Great stuff!
I hope you’ll add Identi.ca to the list of supported services on this website, so that people coming here will see that it’s supported! :)
Great app! Very impressed.
http://tinyurl.com/posty2
this is such a useful application. In conjunction with the facebook applications for either twitter (i use) or pownce you can update your facebook status and then with twype you can update your skype status.
supercool. Thank you
This is an amazing app, I have been looking into doing RSS feeds to keep all these services up to date (Which is a rubbish way to do it), but you saved the day ;)
BTW is it possible for you to also add Plurk and Brightkite? That would make Posty the irreplaceable app! :D
@molom thanks!
As for plurk I am waiting for the release of official api.
Brightkite is on the todo list.
awesome! loved it! but… is there anyway to change where the popup notification is gonna show? mine is showing in the upper right corner… awful.
@johnny that feature is already on the todo list. Thanks for commenting!
Excelent!! Thanks!
É muito bom esse aplicativo, leve, rápido e útil. Valeu.
@richard The first comment in portuguese :) Thanks!
Esta buenÃsimo el programilla, lo bueno es que esta en Adobe Air, asi que es multiplataforma… ta re bueno….
Do you also integrate with laconi.ca systems? I’m sure you do because you support identi.ca but just wanted to make sure . . .
Thanks
Any chance at integrating plurk?
@Rachel After the new improvements to identi.ca and its backend, we put laconi.ca integration on the roadmap of Posty.
@JDH we plan to integrate plurk as soon as they release official API.
Thanks for your questions.
hey there… great app! but.. on my tumblr tab, i get the error “Error in loading posts from Tumblr”. at the bottom, it does say that i am logged in, with my correct email address.
@seanmacdhai that is a bug that will be fixed in the upcoming new version of Posty. Thanks for the feedback!
yo! just wanted to say awesome job on the app. any update on when you are getting your new version out?
@rab for sure by the end of March, probably mid-March.
This app is looking pretty sweet. Useful too…
I’m curious, how or in what way does Posty work with flickr, zooomr et al? Is it that links from those sites will be shown as multimedia when viewed with Posty?
@Doug thanks! Flickr/Zooomr elements are loaded from streams collected by friendfeed.com
Fantastic application and really, really useful.
Any chance of a Blackberry app?
@mark not in a short time :( but a new desktop version is coming soon.
what about a myspace status updater? great app!
@mike I’ll add you suggestion to the “future developments” list. Thanks!
This is an amazing application!
However, I have problems updating my jaiku. I guess it has something to do with the api key. It shows correct, but when I click post, the upper part of this application freezes and my updates are not sent.
I don’t know if I tell clearly about this issue. Is there anyway to solve this?
Thank you!
@adamzhu jaiku has recently migrated to google app engine. This implied also changes tp the api. If you have saved somewhere your api key you should be able to update your status via Posty. In the meantime I am studying the new api and login procedure and I will update Posty accordingly.
Thanks for your feedback!
Thanks for your explanation. I guess it is because of the migrating to google app engine. I’ll check back here later. Hopefully I can find an update soon. You’ve done a great job! Thanks again!
Congrats on the v 1.8 of posty which has solved my previous (but probably isolated) clearing of password details in OS X. As has been already pointed out the Jaiku API authentication side doesn’t seem to work due to changes at Jaiku but everything else is fine. Thanks again.
Posty Software – I use the program forever. Good work. Thank you for that.
Hello. I try Posty for manage my identica/twitter account and it looks great. I can’t use it at this time, because each time i close Posty, i loose all my configs (accounts, themes : a fresh install each time). i use Xubuntu 8.04 and don’t find how to resolve this problem. have you some idea for helping me ?
@mika3b Adobe Air runs officially on “Fedora 8, Ubuntu 7.10, openSUSE 10.3″ as stated here (http://www.adobe.com/products/air/systemreqs/). I successfully run it on Ubuntu 8.04.
Your problem might be due to the fact that Adobe Air requires either Gnome or KDE as desktop environment. Here are more details: http://is.gd/uQAA
This is such a nifty idea (who even says nifty anymore?). I would love to see a more diverse array of supported networks in the future.
Great work!
@Sara thanks!
My PC crashed and when I had to reformat the hard drive and get it back up working, I almost forgot all about this nifty (agreed…love this word) little tool. I’m even going to post about it on my blog/site tomorrow and give some love back!
I can’t get a key for my jaiku account! I click the Posty link to get the key, copy and paste it into Posty but when I click verify it says the key is wrong. I’ve tried generating other keys but nothing worked =/
@Rafael jaiku has recently changed servers and api. I will update Posty accordingly. Changes will be included in the next version.
I’ve got a laconi.ca install on my server that I am trying to connect Posty to but having no luck Cesare ? Can you advise if you support this usecase ?
Cheers
S
@Scotty Laconi.ca installs are not supported in the current version of Posty. I’ll consider your comment as a feature request. Thanks for the suggestion!
I love this program. Do you know when the next update will be out (for the Jaiku fix)?
I’d also love to see Brightkite and Plurk integrated into it. I’d also like to see imgage capabilities for the sites that allow it.
@Holly Thanks! probably by the end of June. Brightkite is on the to do list. Plurk has no api yet. As for the last suggestion, you mean support to twitpic and similar services?
Would love to see a iPhone version.
@steve I started the porting.
why can’t i download the last version – beta 2?
@danni That version is not available anymore. The latest one is 1.8.1, released today.
okay, the latest one is working well…seems pretty nice…thanks :)
I still can’t log into my Jaiku account. What am I doing wrong?
@eeeper You are not doing anything wrong. Jaiku changed api and Posty has to be ported to that. 1.8.1 was an adjustment. Posty 1.9 will include the fix to Jaiku.
lovely app! but there is still the “Error in loading posts from Tumblr” ..i would love to use it for tumblr. will it be fixed?
@may tumblr works with my account. Can you provide more details about the issue you found?
Posty uses about 90MB of my RAM when running. Do future versions promise to be leaner? This is my only complaint with Posty. For me, it’s a pretty big deal.
@angelina each version of posty improves memory usage. Next version will be optimized to save even more ram space. Thanks 4 the feedback!
It is a very cool tool.
@kombizz thanks!
I have the same error “Error in loading posts from Tumblr” using posty :/
I don’t know if this has something to do with it but I have to blogs on tubmlr, one with custom domain.
I can provide details via email if necessary
Quleczka
Btw, I don’t see any way to choose to which Tumblr blog post new text :/
Can posty post to other blogs, not only main one?
@Quleczka at the moment Posty supports just one tumblr blog. Next version will fix this issue. Thanks for reporting.
Also getting the “error loading posts from tumblr” message
@Ray yep. That error happens when you have multiple tumblr blogs. Working on that.
@Ray @Quleczka release 1.8.2 fixes that bug.
It’s a great idea for an app. If you want to update Facebook you can use FriendFeed. I like this app for Facebook http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=115463795461
Selective Twitter Status
Hey. Great Application. I don’t normally go out on a limb to try out new things like adobe air. I try to stay away from the proprietors. But, this application is definitely worth it when Gwibber isn’t working right in Gnome.
One thing I’d like to suggest is to have Posty dock in the notification area in gnome, or at least have an option to do so. It would be grand since I usually have these types of programs there. Basically, I want it to run as a daemon in the background with an icon in the system tray(notification area) in Linux.
Thanks for the cool little application.
Have a good one.
Thanks! At the moment Adobe Air does not support docking apps in Gnome. That works just for windows but I hope future versions will expand this functionality to other platforms. Which distro have you installed?
is there a possibility of an app for the blackberry tour (9630)?
@derrick Unfortunately not at the moment.
i don’t understand how to post to tumblr via posty.. how do you post pictures, quote, etc? :(
@mayduts that feature is not yet implemented. You can only post text to Tumblr. Links are automatically detected and posted as links.
i like this idea. But i got error while installing.
Its says that air-file corrupted. I had use “Direct link” in top post.
PS. Sorry for my poor English.
@Jane Probably I was working on the server. Now it all works fine.
I really like this application but as cool as AIR is it always seems little flaky running it. Runs pretty good so far. Thanks.
Hi there.
First of all, congrats, Posty is almost everything I was looking for in this kind of app. I’m only having one issue: Posty doesn’t recognize graphical signs – like á, ã, ô, à, etc… I’m Brazilian and I’m using Kubuntu 10.04 in english, but my keyboard is correctly configured to pt-BR.
Any ideas?
TIA,
@Galvao Thanks for reporting. Few questions.
Signs do not show when you type? or when you paste?
Which Adobe Air version have u installed?
Hi, @Cesare, thank you for your quick reply. They don’t show if I type (e.g.: “é” becomes “e”; “ã” becomes “a” and so on). If I paste a text they show as expected.
On Adobe Air’s version, I’m not exactly sure. How can I check this?
TIA,
@Cesare: I’ve just confirmed: I’m using Adobe Air 2.0.2. I’ve downloaded and installed the .bin from Adobe’s site.
@Galvao
Ok, I will try to replicate this bug. Thanks for the details.
@Cesare
That’s awesome, thank you! I’ll be checking here often to see if you come up with a solution.
Thanks again,
@Galvao
I have been able to replicate these characters. I did not find é or ã on a PT keyboard.
See this screenshot: http://www.twitpic.com/217opf
FYI: screenshot is from Ubuntu but I also tried KUbuntu. Same result.
@Cesare
These characters are not the issue. “é” is got from typing “‘” + “e”. “ã” is got from typing “~” + “a” and so on. It’s a graphical sign first (“, ‘, `, ~, ^) and then the letter.
Hope this helps.
@Cesare
Let me know if you’d like to have a quick chat about this (msn, gtalk, irc, etc…). It would be easier to explain =)
Got it. Thanks.
It is an Adobe Air issue :( http://forums.adobe.com/message/2892041#2892041
Thank you, @Cesare. Let’s hope Adobe fix this soon :(
@Cesare
Good news, seems that Adobe will fix it real soon, take a look at the forum. =D
Hope it could support Plurk as well!=)
@Galvao didn’t not hear of a new air release. Anyway I hope they will fix it soon.
@nengmaui it is a while I don’t check out plurk. I did not notice they released any api… Thanks for reminding me :)
Hey, please fix the download-link, you have a permission problem on your webserver and php error msg garbles the download!
@Cesare
They (an employee anyway) mentioned at their forum that a new release will fix this and they expect it to be released on early August ( check the last messages at the Adobe forum: http://forums.adobe.com/message/2892041#2892041 )
@Galvao good news!. Let’s wait …
@snake Fixed. Thanks for reporting.
Hey first time here some nice apps i see here are they compatable with the new HTC phones?
@Ezine not yet :)
@Cesare
The wait is finally over. Today Adobe released version 2.0.3 which fixes the graphical signs bug. xD
Thanks for the app! Would love it though if Tumblr allowed us to read out dashboard, as a choice instead of our posts, such as in Twitter. :D Maybe an Android App?
An android app is in the todo list.
Nice air app.
Nice app. It’s super light weight and integrates Tumblr. I do hope the next version will be able to displays dashboard posts. Kudos to Posty. I definitely will tell my friends about this app.
thanks for Posty 1.82. the program was working perfect until Sept 1. I believe Twitter changed their OAuth policy and now I cannot log in with Posty to my twiiter account. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.
Thanks for reporting. You are right. It is because of OAuth. I am trying to update it but I thought it was a quicker modification :(
Hi!, i was looking forward to using posty but.. it seems like it can’t log in to my twitter account. The password is right and everything but i can’t log in is there any other way to log in?
@Grace Twitter recently changed some technology on the backend. I am trying to find some time to update Posty. Will let you know when an update is available. Thanks.
I’m trying to figure out how to get the jaiku key, whatever I tried didn’t work. Help?
This is a great app by the way.
Jaiku changed its API a while ago and I did not update Posty accordingly, because fewer and fewer people are using that service.
Im sure you are very busy, any news on when you will have a new version?
Glad you are interested. Much client work to do. Really can’t tell. Sorry.
Have been through the process of ‘click here to get your key’ and JAIKU generated KEY and SECRET nut when I cut and pasted the KEY in posty comes up with the message ‘wrong’ – what am I doing “wrong”. All the other key installations worked apart from TWITTER! Have a good weekend, Harry
Twitter and jaiku changed their server settings. I’d need to update the app but i am very busy at the moment :(
I’m trying to install it, but I’m getting Error# 2032 – it could be my XP 64 bit OS or having trouble with the Adobe Air update – it just hangs there, could be my firewall…Any ideas?
Have you installed the latest version of adobe air?
I was using this on my old twitter account and it worked like a dream but since I have opened a new account I can’t get it to work. Any ideas?
New accounts use new API, unfortunately I have no time to upgrade the app to the version :(
I installed Posty (a couple of times) but I can’t get it to verify my twitter log on credentials. It keeps saying “wrong”. Worked fine with my Tumblr credentials.
Thanks for your feedback.
Posty is a pretty old piece, based on old API version of twitter, which is now unmaintained. We are aware of the issue but we don’t have time to fix it at the moment :(
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