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Version History

Twitterrific v 3.1

Released 28.Feb.08

New Features:

  • The cursor is now hidden after selecting a tweet—making it easier to read
  • Growl notifications are now sorted correctly and summarized
  • Added a preference to control the scrolling of the tweets in the window
  • New keyboard shortcuts, including spacebar to select next unread tweet
  • The reply shortcut is no longer allowed on a direct message
  • New power user preference to display @screenname rather than a full name
  • Added a delay to auto-hiding window when using the scroll wheel
  • Added an action menu showing most common keyboard shortcuts

Bug Fixes:

  • Avatars load asynchronously resulting in faster & smoother performance
  • Fixed several problems which caused duplicate notifications for past tweets
  • Changing logins on Leopard will no longer hang
  • Status message updates will now work correctly with Adium 1.2
  • Plugged memory leaks that caused application to run more slowly over time
  • Buttons are no longer displayed on error messages
  • Fixed a problem with messages containing < and > being truncated
  • Fixed highlighting issues in menubar and Dock caused by ads
  • The count on the Dock icon is now cleared when you quit
  • Trailing periods in URLs will no longer become a part of the link
  • Added a check so that ⌘2 and ⌘D won’t overflow the text counter
  • Avatars that contain UTF-8 characters are now displayed correctly
  • Fixed the spelling of advertisement
  • The status indicators are no longer reset when the selected tweet changes
  • Session cookies are now cleared to display correct tweets
  • Fixed a redraw issue caused by the window losing focus
  • Added teh snappy to get rid of the Marble of Doom

Twitterrific v 3.0.1

Released 08.Nov.07

New Features:

  • Added a power user preference to set the protocol
  • Changed refresh to minimize “bad request” errors

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a problem with links in @screen_name_with_underscores
  • Updated application icon to use 512×512 resources
  • Lowered connection timeout from 55 seconds to 25 seconds
  • Fixed a display issue with the connection status indicator
  • Notifications are no longer generated when errors occur
  • Fixed a problem with HTTP 304 errors being reported
  • Fixed a crash on Leopard when using HTTP authentication and proxies
  • Notification sounds are back to birds instead of cameras
  • Plugged memory leaks

Known Issues:

  • Changing logins (⌘L) on Leopard can hang, see What’s New for workaround

Twitterrific v 3.0

Released 01.Nov.07

New Features:

  • Replies and direct messages are now included in the tweet list
  • Added a scripting dictionary to control Twitterrific via AppleScript
  • Error messages are now shown inline and the explanations were improved
  • An unread count is displayed when you use Twitterrific in the Dock
  • Using ⌘C on the selected tweet will copy its URL to the clipboard
  • Right arrow opens all URLs in the tweet, and left arrow opens the user page
  • Screen names are now linked to the user’s page at Twitter
  • Power user preferences were added to filter tweets
  • Sonic Twoosh Technology™

Improvements:

  • The bird sound volume is now adjustable using System Preferences
  • Improved chat client configuration to eliminate “Where is application?” errors
  • Fixed rendering issues in Leopard
  • Added warning dialogs for new users without tweets
  • Added an alert for passwords may cause problems at Twitter

Known Issues:

  • Changing logins (⌘L) on Leopard can hang, see What’s New for workaround

Twitterrific v 2.1

Released 07.Jun.07

New Features:

  • Keychain is used for multiple Twitter logins
  • Added Growl support
  • Tweets can be processed with AppleScript
  • Added support for NetNewsWire
  • Tweet URLs can be dragged into other applications
  • Reorganized configuration panel to reduce clutter
  • Added window customization with transparency, shadows and font size
  • New hidden preferences for power users
  • Added frickin’ laser beams to the Easter egg

Improvements:

  • A warning was added when tweets exceed 140 characters
  • Multiple URLs in a tweet will be linked correctly
  • Added alerts to warn of problems with Twitter API
  • Preference saving is more robust

Twitterrific v 2.0

Released 05.Apr.07

New Features:

  • Tweets can be displayed inline
  • The text entry field can now be resized
  • Added scrollbar to the list of tweets
  • Tweets now maintain true read/unread states
  • Main window now snaps to the edge of the screen
  • Tweets can be marked as a favorite by clicking on the tweet’s heart icon
  • Twitterrific can now be configured to behave as a standard Dock app
  • Updated to a quicker Twitter API when refreshing tweets
  • Spelling misteaks are highlighted as tweets are entered
  • Added Cmd-2 to send a response to the author of the selected tweet
  • Added Cmd-D to send a direct message to the author of the selected tweet
  • Added new notification sounds and the ability to select them randomly
  • Updated progress indicator to be more readable and show connection errors
  • Twitterrific can now update iChat/Adium/Skype status using your last tweet
  • Holding Option while clicking on a tweet’s “t” icon or double-clicking a tweet loads the “with friends” page at Twitter

Improvements:

  • Text of tweet is no longer truncated
  • The text insertion point and text field selection color are more readable
  • URL connections will no longer overlap causing refresh / posting problems
  • Improved checks and importing of XML data being returned by Twitter
  • Fixed a memory allocation bug that would cause random crashes

Twitterrific v 1.1.1

Released 15.Feb.07

  • Fixed a bug with angle brackets (”<” and ”>”) not being displayed correctly
  • Fixed a problem with avatar images not being updated on launch
  • Holding Option while refreshing now reloads all avatars
  • Fixed a problem with window level not being set correctly at startup
  • Updated character count to use 140 as a maximum value

Twitterrific v 1.1

Released 25.Jan.07

New Features:

  • Added characters remaining and limited tweet length to 141 characters
  • Updated notification sound
  • Added preference for setting the window level
  • Added a hotkey to toggle the window

Improvements:

  • Fixed a bug where errors during posting were not reported correctly
  • Updated tooltips that referred to “twit” instead of “tweet”
  • Added keyboard shortcut for Help (Cmd-?)
  • Fixed a problem with posting tweets with curly brackets and semicolons
  • Window now auto-hides itself when displayed because of a new tweet
  • Increased the connection timeout when refreshing tweets
  • Note added to connection failure dialog about disabling error messages
  • Added keyboard shortcut for refreshing tweets (Cmd-R)

Twitterrific v 1.0

Released 15.Jan.07

  • Initial release

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