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Hey friends, With the sudden death of Tweetz, my Twitter app, (thanks Elon), I’ve moved on to a new project. I know what you’re thinking; Gee Mike another checklist application. Bear with me a moment...

Stick a fork in it, it’s done! Tweetz 2.0 is a rewrite in Microsoft’s latest technology, .Net Core 3.1. Long-time users should not fret however because the new version is very much in keeping in...

Tweetz is a windows desktop client for twitter. It started out as a Windows Gadget application and migrated to a desktop application when Microsoft discontinued gadgets. Tweetz is intentionally minimal and meant to sit near...

Thanks to a pull request, the long standing problem of losing sytnax highlighting after saving the output buffer to a file is fixed (#103). This took some presistence to fix because the issue involved a...

There was a time when my visual acuity was, “off the charts”. I could read signs from further away than anyone I knew in my youth. Alas, as I aged, my vision changed and now...

Dear Reader: This is a guest post by jack@vpngeeks.com Before you start searching for the right VPN Service, you should first make a checklist of your requirements. What’s the use of investing in a VPN...

I use these two command line utilities every day. There’s not much to them but they do save me keystrokes and time. e.cmd @start notepad.exe %* Open an editor and save this a e.cmd. Substitute...

Couple of new features: Multiple images are tiled to reduce vertical space Video automatically loops Images are copied to the clipboard when viewed https://github.com/mike-ward/tweetz-desktop/releases/latest

In brief: Removed streaming API because twitter killed it. Added multiple image and video playback support. Download Twitter continues its quest to destroy third-party clients by once again crippling their API. This time the streaming...

This is a follow up to a post I wrote last year about Mithril v0.24. At the time of this writing, Mithril’s current release is v:1.1.6. There are a number of small changes and some...