Current version: 0.028
Manual Installation
If the above installation doesn't work, you can try the following:
If you get an error message on installation, please ensure that you have the most recent version of the runtime installed. You may need to uninstall any and all previous versions of AIR before installing the new version.
Welcome to Snitter!
Snitter is "Snook's Twitter": an Adobe AIR-powered application for twittering. Twitter let's you post small 140 character messages letting people know what you're up to.
Snitter is made on the Adobe AIR platform which is both Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows compatible. There is currently a Linux version of Adobe AIR in alpha testing but some functionality is likely missing.
Donations
Features
- auto-updates tweet list
- highlights messages sent to you via @ syntax (and makes a chirp)
- clear current list of tweets
- refresh list of tweets
- displays last time it tried to request an update
- view 20 most recent items in your timeline
- view 20 most recent replies
- view 20 most recent direct messages
- view and filter friends list by name and screen name
- view and filter followers
- links to easily @reply and Direct message users
- keyboard shortcuts to access each panel
- add favorites tab and allow tweets to be set as a favorite
- will notify you of new versions of Snitter
- audible notification of new tweets
- will remember previous window size and location
- will minimize to system tray
- auto-login
To-Do List
The application is currently going under an overhaul to make the application more stable, flexible and customizable.
At the core will be a very simple system to send and receive tweets. A number of hooks will be available for plug-in developers to add in additional functionality. As this is a personal project, this release will take time to develop and test. Features expected to be in the next release:
- Multi-user. Snitter did have multi-user support in a previous version but memory usage during the AIR beta made this impractical.
- Plug-ins. Creating new releases to fix issues with third party services is impractical. The system will allow new plugins to be installed and offer up new functionality without having to update the core application. As third party systems come online, plug-ins can be created to enhance the service.
- Themes. Theming is already possible but the new system will allow for theme packages to be downloaded and installed, making it easier for everybody to personalize and share their unique Snitter creation.
User Stylesheet
Every screen name in Snitter can have a user stylesheet assigned to it. You can access it from the options screen and clicking on the Edit User Styles button. Changes to the CSS will be applied immediately.
Once you've modified your style into something super-sexy, why not add it to the Flickr Snitter Group?
Here are some quick examples:
- Increasing font-size
* {font-size:16px;}- Increasing font-size of just tweets
.tweettext {font-size:16px;}- Changing background color of interface
#shellin {background-color:#900;}- Smaller avatars
.userprofileimageurl img {width:24px;height:24px;}
.tweet {padding-left:35px}- No drop shadow
#shadow {border:0;background:none;}
#shell {top:0;bottom:0;left:0;right:0;}
Known Issues
- Snitter stops OSX from restarting. This is an Adobe AIR issue.
- Border on refresh or navigation doesn't appear. This is an Adobe AIR issue but I haven't been able to find a workaround.
- Search doesn't work. The search currently uses Terraminds which might not always be available. Will improve error messaging in future version.
- Opens links in new window instead of new tab. This is an Adobe AIR issue. Try using Tab Mix Pro add-on for Firefox.
- Opens links in wrong browser. This is an Adobe AIR issue. Try setting non-preferred browser as default then setting preferred browser as default.
- Growl Support for OSX. AIR currently doesn't do this. When it does, the growl-like notifications will be replaced with actual Growls. (I tried hacking in Growl support but couldn't connect via TCP and UDP isn't currently possible from AIR.)
- Memory usage keeps climbing. On the PC, at least, this can be mitigated by turning off desktop notifications. Notifications are handled by a third-party component which has a memory leak. This hasn't been confirmed on the Mac, yet.