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Waver, a cross-platform Google Wave application for your desktop
There's Tweetdeck for your Tweets, Seesmic for your Facebook stalking -- and now Waver for your Waves!Waver is simply an Adobe AIR application that hooks into your Google Wave account. From there, you can create new waves, or update existing ones.
Adobe's Javascript implementation seems to do surprisingly well, rendering Waves as quickly or quicker than Google's own V8 -- though this could be due to the fact that Waver uses the cut-down iPhone UI output from Google Wave. Also, a lot of the UI seems to actually be, er, missing. And a lot of the shortcuts don't seem to work yet.
But let's not forget the most important thing here: in this case, Waver is merely rendering Google Wave using WebKit -- the same engine powering Chrome, Safari, and several other web browsers.
Is it really worth installing AIR and running a separate application to access your Wave account? Why not just open another tab in Chrome?
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ben said 7:48PM on 10-22-2009
err... that's just the Google wave mobile interface....
if that's considered an app, I can make a few hundred apps a day.
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Sebastian Anthony said 3:29PM on 10-22-2009
Yup, it's just the iPhone output of Wave rendered in the Adobe AIR browser, from what I can tell.
Though there might be some nice hooks coming up that aren't merely browser-based. We shall see!
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Sebastian Anthony said 3:30PM on 10-22-2009
Oops, that's a reply to a comment that hasn't yet been confirmed by the user.
brasseo said 4:29PM on 10-22-2009
There's an app called Wave board that allow you to access to google wave from your desktop on mac os or your iphone : http://blog.brasseo.net/2009/10/19/waveboard-un-client-mac-et-iphone-pour-google-wave/
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Jash Sayani said 4:31PM on 10-22-2009
Nice to see everyone post about Waver. I just published the app yesterday. And yes it just took a day to make it, as its the iPhone version of Wave.
The goal is to access Wave from a tiny window and not lose focus from your work. I am busy now, so when I get time, I will be updating the app with my own app using the Wave API. You can expect the update sometime next year....
As of now, I am making a download page for Wave on my website and will post it soon...
Follow me on @JashSayani for updates.
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