ceTwit 1.3 release
I cleaned up the menu items making them a little easier to use, “refresh” is now two clicks away instead of 3. I moved the support for external services into its own submenu on the context menu to get the context menu a more reasonable size.
New Features:
- Blue border for highlighted tweet (much more readable)
- Added support for Quotably
- Added “Last Network Transfer” dialog to show last returned api data
- In the event of a network error on the api call the timeline will no longer clear
- Network Error displayed in title bar in the event of a network error
I’m open to suggestions on the timeline display, I’d like to improve it without the programming being horribly complex so if anyone has suggestions feel free to send them to me @vkoser.
You can upgrade your device from the application via menu/settings/about then menu/check for update
or download it via the download page [download]
ceSnipURL featured on Lifehacker
ceSnipURL was featured on lifehacker yesterday which is pretty exciting. It’s gotten picked up by quite a few mobile blogs as well. Kind of neat logging into your morningrss feeds and seeing your own stuff featured on one of your favorite sites. [original article]
ceSnipURL 1.0 release
I’m pleased to announce the 1.0 release of ceSnipURL. I created this little utility to allow me to shorten URL’s to make them more friendly for use in twitter and sms messages or mobile email, preventing links form wrapping in email helps them maintain their clickability when sending them. Using them in SMS saves you precious characters and allows more text space to describe the url your sending. You could use URL shortening services via the web but the clipboard interaction is more cumbersome than using a small utility.
Features:
- Auto places url’s from clipboard into conversion window on application launch
- After conversion the snipped url is placed on the clipboard for use in your sms/email or application of choice
- Very simple one screen application
- Built in checking for update via the about screen
As always its 100% free no strings attached. Let me know if you have suggestions or issues via the contact form.
Hit the download page to get the latest 1.0 release [download]
ceSnipURL preview
I’ve been working on coding up a very small app that will allow you to shrink url’s. This is nice for inserting into tweets via twitter or for sms etc.. where every character counts. You can do this via pocket IE but its a hassle copying and pasting etc…
So far it’s very simple and I plan to keep it that way. If you have a valid url on the clipboard when you launch the app it automatically fills it into the big url box and then all you have to do is click Snip URL and it will connect to the Snipurl.com site and shrink the url and place the shortened url back on the clipboard for you. Then you can return to whatever other app you were using and paste the new url into it.
Look for a release in a day or so after I get some usage time on it.
Minor update to ceTwit to fix pagination button bug
@kgranson pointed out a bug in ceTwit’s pagination buttons, if you had the screen rotated the button button for older items (Older >>) would be drawn off the screen.
I corrected this by anchoring the control to the lower right of the screen. I also adjusted the (<< Newer) button by anchoring it to the right and top of the screen. This should produce consistent results across devices regardless of screen orientation.
Get the update on the [Download Page] or use the about/upgrade link inside ceTwit from your device to download it over the air.
ceTwitsp 1.2 development release
I made a few additions to ceTwitsp today, thats the smartphone or windows mobile standard version. The main changes are:
- Configurable item height on the timeline
- Zoomable tweets
The addition of the zoomable tweets allows you to keep your timeline item height a bit smaller to fit more items on the screen then hit the center button on your directional pad to zoom the tweet and view the entire thing. Below are a few screenshots of the new behavior. Let me know if you have any other suggestions. If you are interested in taking an early look it should be relatively stable [download development release 1.2]
forcing a textbox to be numeric only
It’s a pain on a smartphone to have a textbox not default to only numeric if you are in T9 mode. If you want to accomplish this simply do the following on the standard textbox control…
using Microsoft.WindowsCE.Forms; //at the top
InputModeEditor.SetInputMode(textBox1, InputMode.Numeric); //somewhere in your code
ceTwit 1.1 release for both platforms
After lots of user feedback and some important bug fixes I’m pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 for both smartphone and touchscreen windows mobile devices.
New Features:
- Quick paginate on touchscreen devices (info here)
- Ability to follow or unfollow users through the action or context menu
- Check for updates on the about screen
- Moved softkeys to meet MS advised layout (thanks noah)
- Bug fixes on menu item selection for auto timeline update
I just thought I’d mention a few ways I personally use ceTwit on my HTC Tilt during the day.
- Turn on auto refresh 3 minutes and prevent sleep in my desktop cradle at work for my mini twitter appliance
- Keep auto update running with ceTwit in the background throughout the day so my friends messages are always current no waiting to load I can just turn on my phone and look at the timeline
- Update my status on the go without sms charges
ceTwit has a growing list of features, community feedback is all it takes to add new things. Please download the appropriate version for your device and let me know if I can add or change anything to make it a better program. ceTwit is now and always will be free. I’m probably going to release the source sometime soon in case anyone is curious about whats involved in making it work. If you have any feedback please leave it via the contact form.
Anyway enough rambling here is the download link to pickup the latest version make sure you get the appropriate one for your device. DOWNLOAD NOW
Quicker Pagination of the timeline
I had a few requests over the past week for quicker pagination via the screen vs using the hardware directional pad. I went down the path of iPhone like scrolling and got the selected item moving pretty well but it turns out that the ListBoxEx I’m using from OpenCFNet has a bug where you cant programmatically scroll it by setting TopItem.
I had to back out that code for now and came up with a couple buttons that you can pop up on the screen for quick pagination to older items. I remapped the touch area on the screen to bring up the context menu if you touch the avatar or the left 48 pixels of the timeline if your not displaying avatars, and touching in the message area will bring up the pagination buttons.
I’m working in some code right now to hide the buttons if you don’t interact with them for 7 seconds. Otherwise they auto hide when you reach the end or start of the timeline.
ceTwit 1.0 released
The much anticipated 1.0 release of ceTwit has arrived. Thanks to everyone that has been using it. I really appreciate the feedback and feature requests.
New 
Features:
- Relative Timestamps (configure on accounts page)
- Squeezer support (for slim mobile site viewing)
- Urlencoding of tweet posting
Head over to the download page to get it while its hot!