18 Jan 2020
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...
04 Jan 2020
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...
08 Dec 2019
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...
21 Dec 2018
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...
02 Dec 2018
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...
24 Oct 2018
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...
15 Sep 2018
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
03 Sep 2018
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...
09 May 2018
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...
24 Dec 2017
This release fixes a long standing problem where tweetz wakes up the screen after it automatically shuts off as directed by the user’s power settings. Just determining what caused it to wake up was a...