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Replyr

Hmm, I wonder what it is...Firstly, I’d like to say this wasn’t my idea. Mat came up with the initial idea, and did most of the leg work (and came up with that oh so trendy name ;) ). I just provided the applescript that made it work.

Right, now I’ve absolved myself of all responsibility, time for business. On Flickr there’s no way to directly reply to a comment, so the general practise is to show who you are replying to by putting “@username:” before your comment.

What Replyr does is get a list of all usernames on the page currently active in Safari – no other browsers are supported since this uses Automator (usually the people that have commented before you, but there are some odd cases where it pulls other user names. I might fix it in a later release). It then shows you a pop up where you can choose which username you want to reply to and then copies it to the clipboard.

This gets really useful when you bind it to a Quicksilver hot key, so your hands don’t ever need to leave the keyboard.

Included in the zip file is the original Automator workflow so you can see what it’s doing, or there’s a pre packaged application with a nice icon ready to be dropped into your applications folder.

Things that will break this:

  • Activating the app when a page other than an individual photo on flickr.com is active in Safari.
  • Using a browser other than Safari.

Download Replyr.zip

TweetIM 1.8.3

I’ve just uploaded a version of TweetIM that should fix any problems you’re having with it not updating your status in Adium. There aren’t any other fixes so it shouldn’t break anything (hopefully!).

Let me know if it doesn’t work in any way. You can get it over at the original post. Enjoy!

Tweet IM 1.8.2

Here’s yet another update to TweetIM. This is a minor bug fix that sorts out updating the Adium status that broke for some reason in 1.8. So, cheers to Isaac for the fix.

Download TweetIM1.8.2.zip

TweetIM 1.8.1

I’ve fixed a few bugs related to special characters in TweetIM 1.8.1 today. If you’re a current TweetIM user, just download the script and replace your current one with the new one. If you’ve not used TweetIM before, it’s probably best if you head over to the original post to see what all the fuss is about :)

Download TweetIM1.8.1.zip

TweetIM 1.8

I’ve spent this evening working on getting TweetIM some recognition on twitter.com, so now when you post using the latest version twitter will now say “from TweetIM” instead of “from web”.

Twitter

Anyway, you can go and grab it from the original TweetIM post, and remember to let me know in the comments if anything is broken or if there are any features you would like to be added.