Hi, with boxcar for Mac, you can reply to mentions and DMs from anywhere. All you need to do is assign a keyboard shortcut to bring it up in the boxcar app.
Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 10, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Ashley Cox wrote: > Yes, agreed. Perhaps, if someone were to create the twitter application I > describe below (how about calling it tweeter?), there could be a keystroke > that was global, that when pressed would pop up a dialog in which you could > compose a tweet. > I do find sometimes that the ability to read tweets from anywhere is, while > great, distracting > Perhaps another keystroke could be added that popped up a dialog with the > timeline > > > > > On 10/07/2011 13:18, Missy Hoppe wrote: >> Very well said. The only thing I'd like to add is that the thing I like best >> about qwitter is that it runs in the background; >> you can just use it where-ever you are on the computer without having to >> alt-tab to it first. So, if you're writing a >> document, or playing a game for example, you can just check tweets without >> losing your place in whatever program you were in. >> Apart from that particular convenience, Yorufukuru on the mac does meet my >> needs quite adequately. >> Anyway, what is described below sounds perfect to me, but if qwitter were to >> be ported to the mac somehow, I'd only use it >> over what is already available because of its ability to just run in the >> background. I hope that makes some kind of sense. >> Missy >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashley Cox >> Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 5:46 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: Re: Porting qwitter to mac? >> >> I see what you're saying. The only reason I wanted to see a port of >> qwitter was simply because it provides features that most of the other >> twitter clients do not, or if they provide those features they are >> either more hidden away or in the wrong place. >> >> It would be great if someone would write a twitter client that had 4 >> columns lined up; timeline, direct messages, mentions, and sent. Then >> you could add more columns for specific people who you are interested >> in, so only there tweets showed up. Then a simple tweet box. The ability >> to follow people, unfollow people, and a button to go to their twitter >> profile. You could customise the time before new tweets are received. >> >> >> That's it; that, in my oppinion, would be the perfect twitter client. >> Many of the other clients (including qwitter itself) have a lot of >> unnecessary features. For example, not to diss qwitter in any way, but >> who needs to do a bing search from a twitter client? If I wanted audio >> tweets, I would use one of the services already available... and my >> twitter client definetly doesn't need a stopwatch build in. >> >> >> Just my thoughts. >> On 10/07/2011 10:20, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >>> Hi, >>> Look, i don't want to diss your product, Jonathan but i must ask the list >>> this: Do we really need a blind specific Twitter >> client? Wasn't it so that we chose the Mac platform to get away from blind >> specific solutions and be more standard, thus >> being able to more easily communicate with sighted people on equal terms? I >> can understand the need for one or more blind >> specific solutions in the PC world, but here? Am i naive, stupid, living on >> another planet? >>> /Krister >>> >>> 9 jul 2011 kl. 19.41 skrev Jonathan Chacón Barbero: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> there are some problems to develop a ported version of Qwitter: >>>> >>>> * keystroke management is very different in OSX than Windows... We have to >>>> rewrite all modules about keyboard >>>> * window dialog management is very different in OSX. >>>> * there are few diferences in IO file system for OSX and Windows >>>> >>>> >>>> well, I have a good news... I'm developing Blindtweet for OSX. It is a >>>> twitter client for OSX managed using keystrokes and >> it uses speech capabilityes to show the twiter information. >>>> I hope finish it for september and it will be in the Mac app store >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> Jonathan Chacón Barbero >>>> Accessibility, usability and new technologies consultant >>>> >>>> Phone: +34 679953948 >>>> e-Mail: jonathan.cha...@telefonica.net >>>> Blog: http://www.programaraciegas.es >>>> Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/jonathanchacon >>>> LinkedIn: http://es.linkedin.com/in/jonathanchacon >>>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/jonathan.chacon.barbero >>>> Messenger: tyf...@hotmail.com >>>> Skype: Tyflos_ >>>> FaceTime: jonathan.cha...@telefonica.net >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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