No, This is true. Mainly because it works out of the status menu. Bought once configured, Its a treat to use. Especially with twitter.
Ricardo Walker rwalker...@gmail.com Twitter, Skype, & AIM: rwalker296 www.mobileaccess.org On Jul 11, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland wrote: > I've wanted to use Boxcar for the mac, but someone told me it's kind of > strange to get it configured correctly with voiceover. Is this a > misassumption? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ricardo Walker" <rwalker...@gmail.com> > To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2011 2:38 PM > Subject: Re: Porting qwitter to mac? > > > 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. > 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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