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Twitcures

When I last wrote about my NCurses Twitter client Twitcurses I just sort of glaced over it. So here is a bit more detailed usage of the app. It basically looks something like this.

The client refreshes after a set amount of time as set in the config file. I have set the default to 2 minutes which can be reset to whatever you please. But note there is a limit of 140 requests an hour (hey I just got why they limit it to 140...). To refresh your tweets press a capital R.

Sending a tweet is as easy as pressing a cap T. Which should pop up a message requesting you for a tweet.

If you want to cancel just enter a blank line.

Also the cool thing I added is using the Mac 'say' command to speak your new Tweets from the last time you refreshed. So basically whenever it refreshes it speaks any new tweets that have been created after the last time you refreshed. (This means it won't speak the first time you load the app since that will result in it speaking all of the tweets). I will add a mute feature promptly for the time when you don't want it to speak, also a config option for this would be useful.

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• 28 July 2009
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