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KDE Twitter App Choqok Updates with New Look

Chirp, chirp: The very capable KDE twitter application Choqok is available for download.

Sporting a redesigned interface and a nest full of minor fixes, it’s worth upgrading.

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Latest Update to Twitter App ‘Polly’ Adds Real-time Updating

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A new development snapshot of Twitter application Polly has been made available for download.

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[How To] Make Tweetdeck Look Native in Ubuntu

So you’re using Adobe Air twitter application ‘Tweetdeck’ – on your Ubuntu desktop. Only it doesn’t look quite as native as it could do.

The solution? @corbindavenport shared it with his followers on Twitter…

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Schizobird – An Ubuntu Twitter Client Optimized for Multiple Accounts

schizobird - a new twitter app for Ubuntu

A new Twitter client by the name of ‘Schizobird’ has been under development by Ubuntu user and avid community-goer Conscious User, with the focus on rock solid multiple account support.

The name Schizobird wasn’t picked at random; instead it’s an allusion to the mental illness schizophrenia, which is associated with multiple personality disorder. Schizobird is designed to handle multiple accounts gracefully.

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KDE Twitter app Choqok 1.1 released; how to download

An update to Qt Twitter client ‘Choqok’ is now available for download.

Now on version 1.1, the release contains a new translator plugin; a timeline filter to make reading tweets in your stream from a specific person or topic easier and a new option to hide the menu bar.

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Desktop Twitter app Hotot comes to Chrome

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One of Ubuntu’s most popular desktop Twitter applications, Hotot, is now available as a Google Chrome extension.

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Hotot twitter app adds Indicator applet support. Again.

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It feels an absolute age since I last mentioned slick Twitter application Hotot on these pages but today finally saw a feature fix that gave me reason to: Indicator-applet support is now working. “Wait, didn’t it already have this?” you ask. Well, yes it did  but the emphasis lies very much on the ‘did’. Despite [...]

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Hotot Twitter app adds multi-profile, identi.ca support in latest update

Users of the Hotot twitter application’s Daily Builds PPA are in for a treat with the latest pre-alpha update with indenti.ca & multi-account support now added.

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Hotot mono tray icon

Remember that pretty swish new Twitter client called ‘Hotot‘ that we mentioned recently? One rather petty complaint we had with it was the choice of colour tray icon used in the indicator-applet. Good news if it annoyed you: there is a mono-replacement icon available on gnome-look.org, created by a user named c4rver. Download Download the [...]

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Hotot Twitter application gets a Daily Build PPA for Ubuntu users

Users of the visually impressive Twitter application ‘Hotot’ may wish to add the projects’ daily-build PPA to automatically gain the latest features and fixes as the app strides towards a stable release.

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Hotot: The hottest new Twitter app for Linux

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Everyone’s talking about Hotot – a new twitter application for Linux that marries the useful and the unique into one slick package.

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The problem with Gwibber (Tyler Rant)

Why do I not even bother with Social Apps? Click on inside to see.

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The oauthcalypse arrives & Gwibber is ready

Support for basic user authentication in many desktop Twitter applications will end at 8AM Pacific time this Tuesday morning, according to Twitter. Applications which don’t switch to the microblogging service’s new ‘O Auth’ user authentication system, which is touted as being more secure as you only need to provide your password to Twitter, will all API [...]

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Choqok 1.0 Beta2 released – adds nickname auto-completion, new image uploaders and Oauth support

The second beta of KDE twitter application Choqok sees release today. Along with an improved re-tweet function, nickname auto-completion & support for twitter’s OAuth system the application is a worthy upgrade for the brave and bold twitter-addicts out there. Other notable additions in the beta include a wider range of player support in the ‘Now listening’ plugin (including Rhythmbox, [...]

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Histwi – Powerful desktop twitter app

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Backing up your tweets, managing your account and searching tweet based on strict criteria direct from the desktop has been made easy with Histwi by OriginalCoding. We’ve featured many, many desktop twitter applications here on OMG! over the last 10 months but Histwi is very different from the rest. You can’t read your @ replies [...]

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