We have just released Twit Menulet version 7.2, featuring a host of improvements and new capabilities. These include:
- Proper handling of “native” retweets. These retweets are now incorporated into the tweetstream as they should be. The avatars for these retweets are marked with a special icon.
- Global hotkeys! This is an oft-requested feature that was sorely needed. What a pleasure! Hit Opt-command-down arrow to check the tweetstream at any time. Opt-command-left arrow toggles display of scrolling text, which some people find distracting. Opt-command-right arrow opens the “Send a tweet” panel. This hotkey alone has improved my workflow enormously, as I can copy a bit of text in my browser, jump to the send panel with my hotkey, paste the text, and rapidly send.
- Bylines and time stamps on all tweets (space permitting). These are nice to have. I think that our implementation is suitably restrained–but if you don’t like the bylines, a new preference item allows you to turn them off.
- An improved, toolbar-based preference panel. A major improvement over the tab view we used to sport!
- Auto-navigation to last tweet. This feature will send you back to the last tweet with which you interacted, on next opening the menu. This feature has saved me a lot of paging through menus in recent days.
- Stability improvements. We added quite a few of these, and I now run Twit Menulet routinely for more than a week at a time.
With these improvements, Twit Menulet is already a truly full-featured Twitter client for Mac. The next round of improvements will include support for reading RSS streams, tear-off menus, and more. I may actually give in and create a standard tweet window as an alternative to our menu-only approach. If there are additional features you’d like to see in our next version, then chime in quickly by e-mail to phil [AT] twitmenulet.com. Or reach us on Twitter at @stockmenulet.