Tweetie for Mac highlights
Testing oh-so-hyped Tweetie for Mac.
http://www.atebits.com/tweetie-mac/
Highlights & Coolness:
- This is an ad supported ware. You can upgrade to ad free version for $14.95
- Support for multiple user accounts.
- Shorten URL contextual menu item in the Post dialog (or option+cmd+s) is cool.
- Choice of URL shortening services include DiggBar, which is kinda new.
- Drag & Drop image submission is sweet.
- You can choose from one of 4 popular Twitter picture hosting services.
- The reply+retweet conversation UI is very very cool
- So is Direct Message browser!
- UI is fairly snappy in the first 15 minutes I tried it. (FYI, Lounge was like that, but became sluggish later.)
- cmd+N to open the Tweet dialog. Nice. I hate moving mouse around just to tweet.
- Tweet dialog includes the account picker if you have multiple accounts registered.
- cmd+shift+N to open a new Direct Message dialog.
- Direct Message dialog comes with a popup menu listing all my friends. The predictive typing feature for the popup is cool too.
- It lets me change the font size!! This is huge for someone like me who’s all about clamming as much information into a tiny space as possible.
Dislikes:
- Within the post dialog, Enter key is recognized as a return key. Why not post?
- I hate DiggBar. My friends better not be using DiggBar as the URL shortening service.
Long Story Short…:
A promising new Twitter client. I will have to test it out a couple of more days before deciding to get rid of TweetDeck and Lounge…
