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Widget Watch: Twitterlex update brings Growl notifications, more
Brett Taylor has update Twitterlex, his Dashboard widget that is still my favorite UI for using Twitter, to v1.1 with some handy features and one major addition: Growl notifications. Updates from friends are now passed through Growl, letting you stay on top of what's going on with minimal workflow intrusion (tip: if you want to shut off these notifications, you can do it through the Growl System Preferences pane). Other enhancements include the widget updating itself only every 5 minutes while in the background, update notifications for new versions and a warning when your status is near or at Twitter's SMS-friendly character limit.It may not be quite as sexy as the Icon Factory's Twitterrific that we mentioned, but Twitterlex's functionality is light years ahead for this blogger.
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Nick Sakellariou said 4:48PM on 2-11-2007
We use Twitter a bit differently.
We have created an online puzzle/maze game where users can create their own levels and publish them online. Once published, users can download the game itself - and any of the published levels to their mobile phones and play whenever they want.
Twitter is being used as a notification tool: each time a user (who has a Twitter account and has enabled the notification option in our Level Editor) creates and publishes a level, their Twitter friends get notified of it, and get a direct link to download the level to their mobile phone.
We are still conjuring up new ideas on how to integrate Twitter into more functions in our game, but this is a cool first step. Anyone who wants to test the game, feel free to visit at www.nbw.nu/ninja ... and yes, the game is free, even the mobile version. The Level Editor is built using Flex, so it is very much Mac friendly - and a stand alone downloadable version of the game will be made available for the Mac this spring. Enjoy!
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