Skip to Content

Submit your nominations for the Luxist Awards' Best in Decor
AOL Tech

atebits posts

Filed under: Macintosh, iPhone

Tweetie 2.0 coming soon for iPhone and Mac

The popular Twitter client Tweetie -- available for both Mac and iPhone -- is getting a major overhaul.

Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone is built on the same framework -- dubbed "Bigbird" the Mac version enjoyed, stripped to essentials and updated. The new version also promises a complete offline mode with caching of tweets and the ability to remember exactly where you left off. It also fully supports landscape mode, gestures and even has a complete draft mode that can send updates to Birdhouse. Whew!

Some other cool features include:
  • Saved searches
  • Better threaded conversations
  • Link to iPhone address book
  • Multiple attachment support
  • Hashtag picker
  • Short URL previews
Former Download Squad'er Christina Warren managed to sneak in a preview for Mashable, which looks rather promising. Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone is coming soon and will cost $2.99. The Mac version update will be free.

Filed under: Macintosh, Social Software

Atebits releases Tweetie 1.0 for Mac



One of the hottest Twitter clients on the iPhone just became one of the hottest Twitter clients on the desktop, with the official release of Tweetie for Mac. It's been a trending topic on Twitter all day, and reviews are positive so far. I predicted some of the app's features when the preview video came out a few days ago, but here's a rundown of what it can really do:

First, it supports multiple accounts. Tweetie lets you switch easily between several Twitter accounts via the sidebar or a hotkey. Direct messages are threaded, so you can open them as conversations to see who said what, instead of having to switch between your sent and received DMs on the web. You can also use Twitter Search from within the Tweetie app, and break off searches into a separate window to keep track of them.

The best part about Tweetie is that there's very little need to go to the Twitter web interface for anything: following and unfollowing, reading people's streams and user info, searching and posting, and even shortening URLs with the service of your choice are all included within the app itself.

TUAW has an in-depth look at the features.

Filed under: Macintosh, Social Software, Beta

Tweetie for Mac coming soon, teaser video out now

Tweetie has taken the iPhone Twitter client market by storm, and anticipation for the desktop version has been building sometime. The developer, Atebits, is fueling the fire a little bit more with a preview video of Tweetie's new Mac version, which is due out on Monday, April 20.

The preview shows a UI with a toolbar down the side, and chat bubble styling for the main stream. Knowing the iPhone version of Tweetie, I'm guessing we'll see more than one style option for the desktop version. It looks like there's support for multiple accounts, and for zooming in on a single conversation thread. The search features everyone likes in Tweetie for iPhone seem to be here, too, but the direct message page is new: it can apparently be sorted by individual contacts. There's also a nice link-sharing feature that I'm sure a lot of people will make use of.

We'll report more on Tweetie when we get a chance to test it out, so watch this space.

Featured Time Waster

The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

View more Time Wasters

Featured Galleries

Defective by Design, London: Protest Pictures
Microsoft Security Essentials
Chromium Pre-Alpha on CrunchBang Linux
Safari 4 Beta
10 Firefox themes that don't suck
IE8 RC1
Download Squad at the Crunchies After-Party
Download Squad at the Crunchies
WordPress 2.7
Cooking Mama: Mama Kills Animals
Windows 7 Hands On
Comodo Internet Security
Android First-look: Amazon.com MP3 Store
Android First-look: Twitroid
Google Reader Android
Android Hands-On
Twine 1.0
Photoshop Express Beta
Mozilla Birthday Cake
Palm stuff
Adobe Lightroom 1.1

 


Follow us on Twitter!

Flickr Pool

www.flickr.com

More Tech Coverage

AOL Radio

Joystiq

TUAW

Daily Finance

Autoblog

Urlesque

Engadget

WoW

Switched.com

FanHouse