Nicholas Pike

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Archive for March, 2008

Coming Soon: MobileTwitter – Twitter Everywhere! (iPhone/iPod Touch)

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There are many great iPhone web applications for using Twitter on the go – but the selection of native iPhone applications is surprisingly lacking.   The iPhone rocks for easing access to your data on the go – A streamlined, clean, and functional Twitter application just feels like a natural fit.

 

MobileTwitter is written using the iPhone SDK – so it runs smoothly on your iPhone and iPod Touch.

Features:

  • View the timeline of the yourself, and the friends you follow
  • View the public time line – keep tabs on the internet world!
  • Send updates to Twitter on-the-go  (Over wifi or EDGE) with the iPhone’s awesome touch screen

Many more features are planned and will be implemented – suggestions are welcome.

Where can I get MobileTwitter?  You’ll have to wait for it to appear on Installer.app  (can take some time for a trusted repository to add a new application) .  More screenshots available here.

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March 14th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

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Firefox 3 Beta 4 – and its new theme for OSX

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Not really sure how I feel about this theme…

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March 12th, 2008 at 7:33 am

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Set it free?

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In my previous post I detailed an update to the Google Calendar Notifier extension for Firefox – this is long over due… and I really wish I had the time to complete it. So here’s the problem: I really don’t have any time to manage and maintain such a project.

I wrote the original versions of the extension during a time in my life where I had lots of free time – and not many other activities to occupy my daily life.

At the moment, I just have too much going on. (Last quarter of college forever in addition to part time job, job searching, graduation preparation, and lots of other stuff)

So what should I do?

I certainly don’t want to abandon the extension – it is still used by many thousands of people. (In various degrees of “working”) . The current source base is pretty horrible, this was my first Firefox extension, so you can tell from my code I did a lot of exploring – and not much refining.

Maybe I will just release the current trunk of my repository (GCN 2.5 for Firefox 2), as well as what I have completed for GCN3 (not much, some core code changes and the base code of a XPCOM component)- maybe some enterprising developer can take the helm and update it.

If your interested, or have any ideas… please feel free to leave a comment to this post.

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March 7th, 2008 at 11:47 am