NewsSnacker – Twitter newsfeed on the Pebble watch My first coded pebble app. I’m using Pebbles new beta javascript system, so even though it was very easy to code, there does seem to be an issue when hitting the ‘select’ button to go from story to story. Hopefully this will get better. For iOS users. Right now you cannot download from the Apple… Read More
Your Twitter app suddenly does not work with OAuth, could be your database A few days back one of my twitter aps, NewsSnacker.com stopped working for some reason. I have not touched the code in months. So what the heck was going on? More odd is that fact the twittFilter was working fine. They are based off the same OAuth2.0 code. After a few hours of hacking and… Read More
How to get the news on your pebble watch. My first little hack I have this website called NewsSnacker.com. Simple enough. I get various twitter feeds from various news agencies and then remove the duplicates. So now I want to read the news on my Pebble watch. Since I cannot code in C, I had to improvise. In comes Tasker. I listed Tasker in my Top 10 Pebble… Read More
Why did my Twitter app suddenly die? Ah, we were warned and warned. Yesterday, or the day before, twitter API 1.0 was finally turned off. Already seeing the confused posts asking for help. No easy answer I’m afraid. You can read more here. https://dev.twitter.com/blog/api-v1-is-retired I have two apps that died, TwittFilter and NewsSnacker. TwittFilter is a pretty large and dense program, so… Read More
Depending on where you live, your tweets may be censored As so it is; Twitter will now censor tweets based on censorship laws of the country the user is in. Now before you think this is only bad news for those people who live in repressive resigned, keep in mind there was a proposal by Joe Lieberman to have Twitter delete the accounts in order… Read More
Topify is now gone. Is there a reason to use to the Twitter API anymore? Another one bits the dust. Topify, a service that makes working with twitter and email much better decided to not to deal with the latest changes to the Twitter API. And I can understand some what because one of the services of TwittFilter ( developed by Yours Truly) has a similar service where it will… Read More
iPhone app to auto reply to your twitter and facebook account At first when I read this, I thought; ‘an auto reply for twitter and facebook? NOooooo!’ My worse thoughts was some putting an auto reply that they are eating a sandwich and will be back online in ah hour. Really? You are so locked into your SocMed addition that you have to let people know… Read More
Never Tweet in anger, or you may just Nuke your campaign and career Love this. The new Duke Nukem FPS game came out a while back and the reviews are now coming in. And they are not good. In fact, most people who reviews the game have basically trashed it. Fair enough.. That happens, especially with a title that has so much history. If you remember, 3D Realms… Read More
Random tweets in Peanuts cartoons LO frick’on L!! This is so funny! Posted on wired.com, a collection of really funny Peanut cartoons with tweets instead of the original content. The site is called Peanutweeter. (looks like the site is no more) Although not each is a home run, the LOL ration is pretty high. I grabbed a few I like as an example.… Read More
Twitter to be included in the native iOS build. And what that could mean Well, what could that mean from a few points of view. First the user. I think BusinessInsider did a pretty good job with their mockup showing what it could mean to have fully integrated twitter support in iOS. From a design point of view, it will be pretty minimal, an extra button on a menu… Read More
Twitter.com is down.. Hard Seems twitter.com is having some issues today. First it was showing odd returns on the timelines, sometimes seeing other tweets the I know I do not follow. Then it the #newTwitter was deprecated to the old twitter.com. Then they went down all together. Still down as of this writing. However, when I go to twittFilter,… Read More
Insert tweets directly into wordpress Just came out today. Although you could always insert a tweet into wordpress using blackbird, a new widget / service from twitter just came out the provides a rich Twitter interactive widget. Nice. From Twitter : To see Web Intents in action, check out WordPress.com’s great tool for quoting Tweets in blog posts: Twitter Blackbird… Read More
The speed of social media, faster than an earthquake Wow. The Sendai earthquake and tsunami happened yesterday and already a wiki page has been created and VERY well populated and referenced. Last night when the quake happened it was all over Twitter, as is expected now a days. In fact, I knew about the tsunami warning for California (through Twitter) long before it got… Read More
Why cant I create a new Twitter white list application? This just came down 10 days ago and slipped by my notice. The basic update here is the reason you cannot create a white list application on Twitter is because they are not accepting any new applications. Instead they are going to limit all apps to 350 API calls an hour. Thats still quite a… Read More
Voice to Twitter. Really useful if your internet gets shut off Just read this in TechCrunch. I have been reading on the various ways people in Egypt have been trying to get information out. Google has released a service that will allow you to call a phone number, leave a message and that will turn into a Tweet. I have not tried this myself so I… Read More
Black Eyed Peas Get Official AR App Last month I blogged and shot a video showing off a Black Eyed Peas augmented reality app I made using Metaio’s Junaio platform. At the time, I was surprised that Metaio didn’t share or retweet with their community this app I made as they usually do with work that others do with their platform and… Read More
Rockmelt: The Initial Experience … Fail Rockmelt crashed the first time I launched the browser, which is always a bad way to start with a new program. I opened up the two webmail systems that I use and another tab in the same window for browsing. I sign in to Twitter three times and get the ever spinning circle. The Facebook integration is better, it is fairly robust, meaning I saw status messages.… Read More
Video: A Matrix view of Twitter I saw this on Gizmodo. Uffa. Its using TweetDeck and pulling 8 columns of streaming Twitter goodness. Caution, this will SOOO make your head swing. I recommend playing rage against the machine in background when you watch this. Video is below..… Read More
Twitter has a new desktop, and its good but not a replacement for advanced desktop Apps Awhile back Twitter started working on improving its site, pissing off a few twitter devs since they were stepping on some toes based on which ever functionality in mind. So the new twitter.com page at first glance looks like it could really threaten other desktop apps, however, when you take a look at the screenshots,… Read More
Scam warning. Fraud attempt as a Yahoo email This is a pretty weak attempt to steam peoples information, but I thought I would post up a warning anyway. I just got this email earlier today and figured I would put out the warning. If you see anything like this, its a scam. Do not reply, do not click on anything. Yahoo or any… Read More