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Spaz, an AIR desktop Twitter client

Posted on 02 July 2008

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I just discovered this interesting desktop Twitter client that really rocks. After playing with clients like Thwirl (slow) and Twitterrific (too many errors…) on my Macbook, I came across this open source client developed with Adobe AIR that, in my opinion, is really promising.

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The look and feel is completely customizable and if your are geek enough, you can design your own CSS too. The number of available features is impressive:

Cross-platform: available on all AIR-compatible platforms: Windows, OS X, and Linux

Open source software using a New BSD-style license (source available at Spaz Google Code project site)

Written in pure Javascript, XHTML and CSS.

Utilizes the powerful jQuery Javascript framework No ads Markdown syntax support

Multiple themes User-defined CSS “overrides” Minimize to systray (windows);

optional auto-hiding and showing

Adding favorite messages and deleting sent messages

Event sounds using the Tokyo Train Station soundset by Dominik Dimaano

View updates from users you’re following, direct messages, replies (@…), and the public timeline

Auto-refreshing timelines

Quicklinks to sent direct messages or replies to any user

Directory listings of users you’re following, and your followers.

Debugging tools (Firebug lite) and debug logging

At first sight it’s working very well on my Macbook and it seems to be very stable. The best part of the story is that the source code is available to developers who can contribute to add new features to the client. You can find more information on how to get the source code as well as information about the license here.

Definitely a desktop Twitter client to watch closely.

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Luca Filigheddu - who has written 1928 posts on LucaFiligheddu.com.

Luca is currently CEO at Abbeynet, a company specialized in VoIP and Web 2.0.

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