Posty
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.
Comments
Cool!
April 14th, 2008 at 10:08 am-DH
Good Work on the 1.0 release its looking really nice and like the additions!
April 17th, 2008 at 4:40 amexcellent 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!
April 19th, 2008 at 7:15 pmI am quite getting used to it now, thanks!
April 26th, 2008 at 6:09 am-Sam
nice! gonna check this one out.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:40 pmLooks like it is time for Identi.ca support…
July 7th, 2008 at 6:23 pm@derrick as soon as they release the api I will integrate identi.ca
July 7th, 2008 at 11:37 pmwow… Posty is a great, much needed app…
July 15th, 2008 at 5:48 amtwo 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!
July 17th, 2008 at 5:38 amGreat app!!
July 21st, 2008 at 7:06 pmI really love this, GREAT IDEA! I was looking for something like this for awhile now. Thanks!
July 27th, 2008 at 10:16 amHey, 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! :)
July 29th, 2008 at 11:38 pmGreat app! Very impressed.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:10 pmhttp://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
September 29th, 2008 at 11:37 amThis 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
October 29th, 2008 at 12:19 am@molom thanks!
October 29th, 2008 at 12:15 pmAs 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.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:18 am@johnny that feature is already on the todo list. Thanks for commenting!
October 31st, 2008 at 10:37 amExcelent!! Thanks!
January 10th, 2009 at 7:23 amÉ muito bom esse aplicativo, leve, rápido e útil. Valeu.
January 17th, 2009 at 2:54 pm@richard The first comment in portuguese :) Thanks!
January 17th, 2009 at 6:43 pmEsta buenísimo el programilla, lo bueno es que esta en Adobe Air, asi que es multiplataforma… ta re bueno….
January 26th, 2009 at 10:11 pmDo you also integrate with laconi.ca systems? I’m sure you do because you support identi.ca but just wanted to make sure . . .
January 28th, 2009 at 11:36 pmThanks
Any chance at integrating plurk?
January 29th, 2009 at 12:07 am@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.
January 29th, 2009 at 10:37 amhey 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.
February 1st, 2009 at 4:14 pm@seanmacdhai that is a bug that will be fixed in the upcoming new version of Posty. Thanks for the feedback!
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:13 amyo! just wanted to say awesome job on the app. any update on when you are getting your new version out?
February 9th, 2009 at 12:00 am@rab for sure by the end of March, probably mid-March.
February 9th, 2009 at 9:15 amThis app is looking pretty sweet. Useful too…
February 12th, 2009 at 11:57 pmI’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
February 13th, 2009 at 9:57 amFantastic application and really, really useful.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:43 pmAny chance of a Blackberry app?
@mark not in a short time :( but a new desktop version is coming soon.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:11 pmwhat about a myspace status updater? great app!
March 18th, 2009 at 4:46 am@mike I’ll add you suggestion to the “future developments” list. Thanks!
March 18th, 2009 at 11:09 amThis 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!
April 3rd, 2009 at 11:53 am@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!
April 3rd, 2009 at 12:38 pmThanks 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!
April 3rd, 2009 at 3:40 pmCongrats 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.
April 10th, 2009 at 1:40 pmPosty Software – I use the program forever. Good work. Thank you for that.
April 11th, 2009 at 10:18 amHello. 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 ?
April 27th, 2009 at 11:52 am@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.
April 27th, 2009 at 12:29 pmYour 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!
April 29th, 2009 at 7:31 am@Sara thanks!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:10 amMy 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!
May 6th, 2009 at 7:02 pmI 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 =/
May 14th, 2009 at 8:07 pm@Rafael jaiku has recently changed servers and api. I will update Posty accordingly. Changes will be included in the next version.
May 15th, 2009 at 9:54 amI’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
May 19th, 2009 at 11:10 amS
@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!
May 20th, 2009 at 2:02 pmI 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.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:38 pm@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?
June 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pmWould love to see a iPhone version.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:48 am@steve I started the porting.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:49 pmwhy can’t i download the last version – beta 2?
July 1st, 2009 at 2:46 am@danni That version is not available anymore. The latest one is 1.8.1, released today.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:02 amokay, the latest one is working well…seems pretty nice…thanks :)
July 1st, 2009 at 3:03 pmI still can’t log into my Jaiku account. What am I doing wrong?
July 3rd, 2009 at 5:02 am@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.
July 3rd, 2009 at 8:57 amlovely app! but there is still the “Error in loading posts from Tumblr” ..i would love to use it for tumblr. will it be fixed?
July 12th, 2009 at 2:37 pm@may tumblr works with my account. Can you provide more details about the issue you found?
July 12th, 2009 at 8:01 pm