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SpreadTweet hides your Twitter stream in a fake Excel window
by Lee Mathews Apr 15th 2009 at 4:00PM
Obviously, if your usage policy at work prohibits using Twitter, this program isn't going to be of any help. Log files will still show what you've been up to. However, if you simply want a less obvious interface so that the Looky Lous around your cubicle can't immediately tell what you're up to, check out SpreadTweet.
It's yet another Twitter client built on Adobe Air, but obviously there's a bit of a twist - it camouflages your stream as a Microsoft Excel workbook. Three skins are available to ensure it blends in on your system: 2003, 2007, and OSX.
No avatars are displayed. There's no TwitPic or URL shortening support. Everything is displayed in boring old plain text, so you'll have to copy and paste links you want to browse.
I'd never use this as an everyday client, but I did actually find it handy for one thing: locating users that incessantly flood my stream with retweets. It's easy to spot the RT @personwithoriginalthought in SpreadTweet's plain text columns.
One super-duper, ultra-critical note: by downloading the software, you "absolve [the developer] of any and all responsibility" and agree to bring him cookies and beer if he goes to jail.
It's yet another Twitter client built on Adobe Air, but obviously there's a bit of a twist - it camouflages your stream as a Microsoft Excel workbook. Three skins are available to ensure it blends in on your system: 2003, 2007, and OSX.
No avatars are displayed. There's no TwitPic or URL shortening support. Everything is displayed in boring old plain text, so you'll have to copy and paste links you want to browse.
I'd never use this as an everyday client, but I did actually find it handy for one thing: locating users that incessantly flood my stream with retweets. It's easy to spot the RT @personwithoriginalthought in SpreadTweet's plain text columns.
One super-duper, ultra-critical note: by downloading the software, you "absolve [the developer] of any and all responsibility" and agree to bring him cookies and beer if he goes to jail.
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mere said 5:15PM on 4-15-2009
uh where do u type in it?
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mere said 5:35PM on 4-15-2009
nm found it
rcarm said 5:27PM on 4-15-2009
Is beer even allowed in jail?
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Lee Mathews said 5:28PM on 4-15-2009
Only if you can make it in the terlet.
Wewtaco said 8:33PM on 4-15-2009
whoa, this is genius.
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Jason said 8:49PM on 4-15-2009
just use Outwit
Reads twitter in outlook, looks like my work email.
http://www.techhit.com/OutTwit/
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mikejonas said 9:18PM on 4-15-2009
Can someone make Facexcel?
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David said 1:56AM on 4-16-2009
Really? They thought this would fool anyone? That Owtwit program sounds like a better candidate maybe, but this wouldn't get mistaken for a valid spreadsheet by anyone but the most idiotic of bosses...
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TheHub said 3:40AM on 4-16-2009
I wager Microsoft may have some issues with this. Ha HA
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Harshit Purwar said 11:02AM on 4-16-2009
Thanks for nice information
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