MahTweets: It’s back

MahTweets is my twitter client of choice. Why? Well, I wrote it. Okay, that isn’t the only reason, it has some pretty awesome features distinguishing it from many Twitter clients.

Features

• Inline media viewing
  View twitpic, flickr, direct images, and youtube (working on it, an IE8 update broke it) all inside MahTweets. Support will be expanded to support yfrog and any other services people request.
• Webcam support
  Use your webcam to directly upload to twitpic (flickr, yfrog, and others coming later) or as your avatar on Twitter
• Conversation viewing
• Tracking
  This was common in the "old days" of Twitter, but now it seems to be called saved/inline searches?  Either way, if you’re particular interested in tweets on a particular subject, track keywords using twitter search.
• Filtering
  No more "#followfriday" clogging up my Twitter stream
• Scalable UI
  Because MahTweets is coded in WPF, I can scale everything (not just change font sizes) neatly at a click of a button.
• Short URL expansion
  Tired of being Rick Rolled through tinyurl, is.gd, bit.ly (and many others)?
  By auto-expanding the shortened url’s (using Long URL Please), you won’t be launched into sites you know are bad
• Multi-account support & grouping Coming soon!

Tech Goodness (Requirements and other details)

• .NET 3.5 SP1
• Built with WPF, C#, using a modified WPFCap library,
• It’s open source (licensed under the MS-PL)
• A beta version of 2.0.1.0 is on codeplex

Through Windows 7’s "XP Mode" I’ve tested Windows XP support, and even in the virtualised environment it was smooth – so smooth that it took me a good 10 minutes or so to notice I’d launched it in XP Mode instead of "natively"!¹

Below is a screenshot of an earlier build, running XP Mode and Windows 7 "natively"¹ the two running side by side.

It’s so weird to see the Luna theme in Windows 7

Big thanks to WillHughes, Shiftkey, CADBloke, Chickz0r, and digihal for help, support, code and/or encouragement on the MahTweets project

^{1 – by "natively" I mean running in a non-virtualised environment.}

PockeTwit Video Review

Short review/look at PockeTwit, a very cool looking Windows Mobile twitter client with a kinetic UI.

Download from http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/

Screencast: WPF+SL2 Silverlight Clients

My Demo’s Happen Here entry (entries closed last month) was on Visual Studio 2008, how it can rock your socks by creating Twitter clients in WPF and Silverlight.

Or you can stream the original video in WMV from Silverlight.Live.Com. You can download the solution (73kB) containing the three projects, which requires the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 SDK.

For interests sake, the screencast was recorded using Microsoft’s Community Clips Recorder and edited with Windows Movie Maker – both free (well, providing you have Windows). Community Clips Recorder is fairly basic when you compare it against Camtasia, as it has no editing, zooming, or highlighting capabilities. However depending on the situation Camtasia is overly complex and the price difference is something to be considered.