The best Windows Mobile twitter clients (1st Part)

There is alot of twitter clients to select from on the Windows Mobile espectrum, some of them are basic (just post) some of them are medium (check tweets and post) and some of them are advance (post, check, pics, etc…)

In this first part i’ll review one of the most advanced and well designed ones Twikini (on twitter)

Twikini (even with this weird name) is a well thought and wel designed piece of software for the Windows mobile 5/6/6.5 platform. (It is now on the 1.1 version released just today)

The sad part is that is not free, but hey! if you want something great you have to pay for it.

This is a review from the 1.0 version

One of the first things I noticed was the really fast app start time. It opened the login screen inmediately asking me for my credentials.

Loading the screen

Login screen

After a succesfull login (the second time I installed it after a hard reset because the first time it didn’t allow me to login after putting my credentials) you are presented with the main Friends Timeline

Friends Timeline

From there you can retweet/reply a tweet or tweet yourself :D the easy way to doit is using your arrows (in my case the sensitive pad of my omnia) if you push or slide the pad to the right you’ll retweet the selected Tweet, if you push or slide the pad to the left you’ll reply to the selected Tweet.

If you click the Tweet, Twikini will open the details of that tweet:

Tweet Detail Screen

from here you can retweet, send this tweet by EMAIL or SMS (two things that are unique to this twitter client)

Send submenu

User Submenu

This gives you control over many aspects of the tweet, and allow you to manage them really easy taking out all the noise from the other screens and timelines.

The tweet window is really clean just has the message box and a My location box that can be filled up with your actual GPS location:

Tweet Window

The menu has many options as seen in the screenshot:

Tweet window menu

This makes you really easy to add pictures, short urls and add your GPS coordinates/location.

Other features are Multiple accounts (a must have), can be used with touch and non-touch devices, multiple WM version support.

Missed features are Search (another must have) and Groups (to me this has become a must have feature to order my friends tweets)

The whole experience is really really good except for one thing that bothers me enough to think in leaving it. What’s the problem? It can’t remember my password, even if i would like to, it doesn’t have the option.

I use secure passwords (numbers, Upper and lower case letters, and some special characters) and to type it every single time I want to read my tweets (as I always close the apps after I use them) is not practical at all.

This made me use the FingerKeyboard capabilities to fill the password box every time I enter the app, but it would be much more easy to have an option for the app that allow it to remember me.

But overall this is one of the best twitter clients for the Windows Mobile Platform.

Version History

Twikini Home Page

Changes for the version 1.1:

• Bug fix: Twikini kept popping up to the top everytime it refreshed (this was causing some devices to lock up).
• Bug fix: @replies were not being highlighted in the Friends timeline.
• Bug fix: RT’s were being treated as replies (now they will be treated as brand new posts).
• Improved: Your current position in the timeline will be remembered. So after refreshing, the same item is still highlighted.
• Improved: The Exit menu item is back! (sorry for removing it)

Nitrogen Skin: MonsterBlack [WQVGA]

Well Long time since my last post on my blog…. and just to update that I bought a Samsung Onmia i900L a great device :D I love it and love the big amount of apps that you can found and use.

One of them is Nitrogen, this great music player is a great Pocket Windows Media Player replacement that plays OGG/MP3 files, can create playlists on the run, and has an “easy to skin” interface, plus the huge amount of other features that can be found on the XDA developers forum.

So as i love this player I decided (as I almost always do) to customize it with some skins, well there are plenty of skins, not a huge selection but some quality ones.

After searching I couldn’t find any that fits my needs I made one :D.

This is my first Nitrogen Skin:

Download Portrait skin

Download Landscape Skin

This skin is for Nitrogen 0.3+
Comments and Suggestions are well recived :)

For more Skins Visit the official Skin Thread

Battery Meter Skin for Battery Meter PointUI Home 2 Applet

This is a simple skin for the Battery meter applet created by gbd951 [original thread] I love the applet but i wanted something much more simple so I created this skin.

Battery Full

To install just unzip the files and replace the jif files under the AppletRibbon/Battery folder.

Download: Box.net | Zshare

Original Thread on PointUI Forums

Tenius Skin for PointUI Home2

This is my first PointUI Home 2 Theme, this was developed because I love the  Tenius icon set that was developed for the iPhone by shiizun [Original Website] this was developed under my Samsung Omnia so is for WQVGA/QVGA resolutions.

Main Screen

Favorite Apps Screen

Download it: Zshare | Box.net
Original Thread at PointUI: Theme Showcase

Changing some iTuny hosting locations

Hi! just wanted to let you know that I’m changing my hosting place for iTuny so please for the latest iTuny build refer to the box.net flash box from your right.

Or go to this post:

http://f0vela.wordpress.com/2008/08/02/ituny-version-05-released/

This has the most recent and functional links to iTuny. Thanks for all the comments and support, I’m busy lately so all the changes are still on the works. :)

I hope to get iTuny 1.0 soon :D

MediaMonkey & Launchy

Well long time no see… I’ve been really busy on my office with a lot of work thanks to God and our selling team  :)

iTuny has been well recived and that made me really happy, even not looking for that. Thanks to Lifehacker for both Download of the day articles they published and all the people that downloaded the application. :)

Now after seeking some replace for iTunes I found MediaMonkey, I have to say this is a really great media player but it lacked of something… something that lets me control it via Launchy. :( I know, i know… I became an addict of the keyboar launchers and I hated when I, in the middle of working on something, wanted to go to the next song and call launchy just to remember that I can’t do that because there is nothing like iTuny… :( and I loose precious minutes to change a song.

So I decided to create MMonkey (got to find a better name) this little application will control MediaMonkey from the confort of your keyboard through launchy :D yay!

By now this alpha that I’m using just has the basic functions, Play, Pause, Stop, Next, Previous, Volume and Rate.

If you want to try this (I repeat is alpha) comment asking for it. BTW, I will release a beta version soon a couple of weeks I hope.

See ya soon.

Firefox 3 and Launchy integration hack

Well I wanted to integrate launchy with firefox 3 bookmarks for quite some time and never got the time to find a workarround ’till today.

Thanks to my beloved Lifehacker Magazine I was able to do it with this article.

On the short it says:

1. Open Firefox
2. type about:config on the location bar and press enter
3. then type browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML and from FALSE passit to TRUE with a double click.
4. Restart Firefox
5. Rebuild your index
6. You’re ready to go! 

This will allow launchy to index your firefox bookmarks, the only problem with this workarround is that it will index the new bookmarks after you close firefox. This is because firefox dumps your bookmarks to the bookmarks.html file when it is closed.

Hope this helps

iTunes 8 y iTuny v0.5

Bueno hace poco se lanzo iTunes 8 y hasta el momento iTuny v0.5 esta funcionando bien. Necesito probarlo completamente, pero al menos las funciones que mas uso… Rate, next, prev, play, pause, show, jump estan funcionando muy bien.

Necesito testear completamente el programa. Si alguno encuentra algun problema porfavor posteelo en los comentarios o envienlo a mi mal.

Saludos.

Underoath / Fuera de la caja

Relevant Magazine publicó un articulo muy interesante acerca de underoath, para todos los que gustan de su musica como yo XD revisenlo aqui.

El artículo habla del nuevo disco de Underoath y de como se prepararon para hacerlo, los cambios musicales y las cosas que tubieron que pasar para tener esta obra maestra.

iTuny version 0.5 Released

Well it’s about time to release this new version, this app comes with a lot of improvements, better coding (I hope) and support for other services.

The change log is in the rar file, but in short:

• Twitter support
• Pownce support
• Snarl support (needs snarl installed on your machine)
• new commands (config, party, twitter, pownce)
• new configuration window
• proxy support (if you are behind a firewall on your house or office and want to use the twitter or pownce feature)
• popup and snarl time control

So here are some screenshots:

iTuny comes with alot of improvements for you to enjoy. Please let me know if you want another feature or find any bug.

Hope you like this :)

0.5: Dropbox / Badongo

For some history here are the older versions:
0.4.5: Dropbox / Badongo
0.4: Dropbox / Badongo
0.3: Dropbox / Badongo
0.2: Dropbox / Badongo
0.1: Dropbox / Badongo

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