OmniTweet - An experimental minimalist Twitter Client for Google Chrome(github.com)
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OmniTweet - An experimental minimalist Twitter Client for Google Chrome
http://github.com/abraham/omnitweet
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OmniTweet is my current guilty pleasure project.
It looks like a perfect example of minimalist usability, and definitely not something you should feel guilty about. Aside from the rough edges, of course, like the fact that it's hard to install until Chrome makes some more progress on their extension API.
Thank you. :) It is mostly just a guilty pleasure project for when I don't want to do contract work.
Yes. The install process is horrendous. Starting Chrome with a terminal command gets irritating to say the least. Hopefully Google will roll some of the APIs into beta soon.
Yes. The install process is horrendous. Starting Chrome with a terminal command gets irritating to say the least. Hopefully Google will roll some of the APIs into beta soon.
Thanks for testing out the omnibox API when it is still so difficult to use. We start out new APIs in experimental to get a feel for how they work before becoming stuck with them forever.
I don't suppose the Omni folks might complain about the name?
http://www.omnigroup.com/
http://www.omnigroup.com/
Could be if OmniTweet ever gets popular enough.
For the record it is named after the Chrome feature omnibox not Omni Group: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/experimental.om...
Edit: I have also never been particularly happy with the name so will probably change it regardless.
For the record it is named after the Chrome feature omnibox not Omni Group: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/experimental.om...
Edit: I have also never been particularly happy with the name so will probably change it regardless.
1. In Chrome, go to Options > Default Search engine > Manage > Add
2. Give it a name/keyword e.g. "tweet" and URL http://twitter.com/home?status=%s. Hit OK.
3. Now from the address bar, you can type: tweet [msg]
4. Forwards you to twitter. Although you still have to click a button on twitter, you could easily write your own serverside twitter API client that could post your tweet without the click.