Twittle User Manual
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1. 3 Running Twittle for the First Time Twittle needs to know your Twitter account settings before going any further If you don t have a Twitter account yet you can visit http www twitter com to register for one You might also want to add a few people to follow before moving on That is of course the whole point of Twitter You can find people to add from the Twitter website or simply ask your friends to join Once you have setup your account simply enter the account details in the box as shown below File Help Username Isegal Password EPIA Remember Password If everything worked out right you will be greeted with your friends status updates It should look a little like this File legal Writing my report on Twittle Loren Segal segal about 9h ago via twhirl Isegal Really cool how doxygen generates call graphs for you http twitpic com r4saj full Loren Segal leegal about 1d ago via web http twitpic com r4sa twittletest twittetest about 1d ago via web legal Doxygen has pre and post Im getting plenty of ideas here for YARD twittletest Really cool how doxygen generates call graphs for you What are you doing right now 0 Now you can update your friends on what you re doing Simply type a message in the textbox at the bottom of the screen and hit return Once it shows up with the other statuses you can be sure your friends who are following you will soon get the message2. You may have noticed on the right there is a number that keeps counting up when you type This is because Twitter has a length limit on their messages of 140 characters This is to keep status updates short n sweet If the number turns red it means your status will be cut off and your friends might not see all of what you wrote Try rewriting your update to be more concise If you re inserting a URL for your friends consider shortening it with the Shorten URL button see below in The User Interface section Note Twittle will never attempt to store your username password or any of your local data anywhere other than on your local machine This notice does not apply to the use of the TwitPic service for image uploading though they probably don t store your data either Please see their terms of service for a similar policy 4 The User Interface You might notice a few buttons on the top and a few more on the bottom Let s go over their functionality E View all public tweets This button allows you to see what everyone in the Twitter community is m saying Be careful though things happen very fast in the outside world I1 View your friends This button allows you to follow your friends tweets status updates tweets only This is probably what you want to be looking at most of the time e View replies directed Sometimes your friends will reply to you in a tweet A reply is known in to you the Twitter world when someone types
3. yourusername before the message You can click this button to conveniently find all the messages where people wrote directly to you fe Upload an image This button uploads an image on your local machine to http twitpic com and puts the URL where you can find that image in your text box so you can quickly and easily share images with your friends le Shorten a URL This button takes a URL and shortens it with http is gd Your new URL m will look like http is gd something and it will be inserted into your text box You can use this when you have a really long URL that you want to share with the world You can also do things with your mouse Right click on a status item This will open a popup menu allowing you to copy the item as text or even as HTML Drag an image onto the window This will automatically bring up the image preview so that you can upload the image without clicking any buttons at all Now that you know what all the buttons do let s look at some of the key combinations you can use to make life faster Ctrl L This is equivalent to hitting the Shorten URL button If you already have text selected in your text box it will automatically use this as the URL to shorten Ctrl C if you need to copy a tweet from a friend you can highlight a status item and hit Ctrl C it will be as if you right clicked and pressed Copy as Text Ctrl O Brings up the options dialog we ll see this soon Ctrl Q Quits Twittle
4. Bye Bye Note Under Mac OS X the options dialog is located at Command and quitting is done with Command 14Q That summarizes the user interface Now let s look at some of the options 5 Twittle Options To access this menu click File gt Options Ctrl 0 or Twittle gt Settings Command You will see this Twrttle Options A AutoJogin using saved account settings Show screen name prefix in Twitter statuses show eatox on o E Always on top Minimize application icon to tray 9 Always show application icon in tray F Hide window from taskbar requires restart Show tray notifications on feed updates Only show transparency when window is active Window Transparency 100 Let s go over some of the options Auto login using saved account settings This setting automatically logs you in with your last saved settings if you clicked Remember Me in the login window Show screen name prefix in Twitter statuses Usually you will see updates as someusername went to the store If you d rather not see this prefix you can disable it with this checkbox Show editbox on Top Bottom You might want to customize your user experience by moving the text box on top if you prefer it there Always on top Shows the application window on top of all your other windows Minimize application icon to tray When you minimize Twittle you can have it hide from the taskbar and only show in
5. your system tray Always show application icon in tray Make sure the application icon is always showing in your system tray Hide window from taskbar If you are always showing the application in your system tray you may not want to ever want to see the window in the taskbar You can remove it with this checkbox Make sure you are showing the application in your system tray though Show tray notifications on feed updates Tray notifications are these little things Loren Segal Isegal tweets I wonder if twittle s notification bubbles work yet Twittle If you don t want to see them you can disable them here Only show transparency when window is active You can decide to make the window more transparent when inactive This is useful if you have the window set to Always on top and you have other useful applications running under it Window transparency Makes the window slightly transparent Try it out 6 Uninstalling Twittle To uninstall Twittle simply remove the executable from your machine You may also want to remove any saved settings that twitter stored on your machine These can be found in the following locations depending on your operating system Windows XP C Documents and Settings YOURUSERNAME Application Data Twittle Windows Vista C Users YOURUSERNAME AppData Roaming Twittle Mac OS X Application Support in your Home directory Linux UNIX twittle Note YOURUSERNAME refers to
6. Twittle User Manual Copyright O 2008 Loren Segal All Rights Reserved Table of Contents Fale dole Ule ole EE ETT EEUU tt VAS CaM BUI TWE aa mS Runnine TWittle for the First TIME a ida TReuUser Interact deca DU UR TUTO OS INS CANIS IWS n Acknowledgements amp AUTRO ss elotes 0 N Oo Ui Bb 0 N Be Beati Into rmatO Nui 1 Introduction Twittle is an application to let you use your Twitter account from your desktop Using Twittle you can follow what your friends are doing and even update them on your latest status yourself all without ever opening your browser Twittle also allows you to share images and links by integrating with services like TwitPic and is gd 2 Installing Twittle Important note for Windows users Please make sure you have the Microsoft Visual C 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package before installing Twittle It s a small 2 6mb free download from Microsoft http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilyIDZ200B2FD9 AE1A 4A14 984D 389C36F85647 Twittle is easily installed because it is only one file Simply store the exe file twittle exe somewhere safe and double click the icon to run it It s as simple as that Note User account settings are stored on the local disk in your Application Data folder under Windows XP AppData Windows Vista Application Support OS X or twittle UNIX Linux See the uninstalling section for more information
7. the logged in username in Windows XP Vista not your Twitter username 7 Acknowledgements amp Author Twittle was developed by Loren Segal in 2008 for a C course You can find out more about the author at http kthx net Thanks to Myriam Malca for beta testing the initial release 8 Licensing Information Twittle 0 5 beta Copyright O 2008 Loren Segal All rights reserved Twittle 0 5 beta can be downloaded freely from http kthx net twittle Twittle will never store your private data on any of its servers Twittle may not be sold resold rented leased or lent without written authorization from the author Twittle is provided AS IS without warranties of any kind either express or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose In no event shall the author be liable for any damages whatsoever including direct indirect incidental consequential loss of business profits or special damages even if the author has been advised of the possibility of such damages
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