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Tweetz 2.0.0 Released

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 2.0 Beta

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...

VSColorOutput 2.7 - Time Stamps

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...

Fixed Focal-Length Eyeglasses, a Programmer's Best Friend

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...

How to Choose the Right VPN Service

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...

Two Handy Command Line Scripts

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...

Tweetz 1.3.2

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

Tweetz 1.3 Release

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...

Mithril Rising

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...

Tweetz Release 1.2.4 - Screen Off Detection

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...
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