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.
@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
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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?