derek says...

How about the source so someone can help fix the linux version?

Ed says...

Yes, actually, I plan on doing that.  I haven’t rushed to do so because it’s written in REALBasic, and there aren’t any FOSS compilers available for the language.  I’ll try to get on it, tho, as soon as I can get subversion going and such.

Georg says...

Hi,

this is a great application, I love it especially for the multiuser support. One of the most useful things is the indication of how many characters have already been used up - great!

There are few things that I notcied with it:

- is there a chance, that the Timeline wraps the lines? This could be configurable.

- “Get my timeline Ctrl+3” returns: “Error retrieving XML Data. Twitter returned “User not found”. Check your username and password.” (all other things work well, username and password are correct)

- i added a picture to one of my accounts, but the picture does not get updated / does not appear in Spaz

Please go on with this application - bon courage!
Cheers
Georg

Ed says...

Georg,

All good comments and ideas.

- Wrapping the lines will be a bit hard, but I would like to experiment with it.

- I’m not sure what’s up with getting your own timeline.  Something might have changed with the API.

- The pictures are cached a little *too* aggressively—it never tries to look for a new one if a cached images exists.  You can delete the cache files manually, though, and it will bring in new pics.  Obviously this is a bug, though.

When I have a bit more time I will address these things.  Thanks!

Graeme Dunlop says...

Hey, just trying out Spaz.AIR and have a few questions / comments. Is this the right place to leave them or do you have a bug report / wishlist area?

Overall first impression—best thing I’ve tried for Windows so far.

Kate says...

Best Twitter app for the PC and I’ve tried them all.

I’m a Spaz fangirrrrl

funkatron says...

@Grame: Feel free to leave comments here, or dm/reply to the Spaz account on Twitter (http://twitter.com/spaz)

@Kate: Thank you so much!

Graeme Dunlop says...

OK then, 2 comments which I suspect may be AIR related (iow, limitations of the AIR VM or widget set):

* wheel mouse doesn’t work for scrolling the Tweet lists;

* the “normal” keyboard navigation shortcuts don’t work in the text entry area. Specifically: HOME, END, Contrl+arrow keys for navigation, Control+SHIFT+arrow keys for selection.

Also, is an expanded set of Preferences on the cards? eg, how often to refresh

funkatron says...

@Graeme: Yes, unfortunately those are all issues inherent to the AIR beta, and I don’t know of a way to easily work around them.  They drive me nuts too, believe me. 8)

Responses from Adobe reps on the AIR dev forums indicate that they’re aware of these problems, and intend to fix them by the time a final release appears.  I think this will be in the next few months, so I don’t think it would be worth putting the time into workarounds,

Graeme Dunlop says...

@funkatron, that’s fine. It’s kinda weird because in the Spry demos the textarea works fine (Spaz uses the Spry widgets, right?)

Look FWIW I’m loving Spaz.AIR and I’ll stick with it despite the niggles. It’s the best thing I’ve seen on Windows so far.

BTW, the new progress animation doesn’t seem to animate for me—I just see a solid ring.

funkatron says...

@Graeme: It’s an issue of AIR’s rendering engine, not Spry.  The non-animation you see is another quirk, specific to the Windows version of the AIR beta.

I’m glad to hear you think so highly of it!

Zack says...

Can Spaz.AIR be modified to include a “Place icon in menu bar” option?

Thanks.

funkatron says...

@Zack: no, unless Adobe modifies the AIR platform to include that capability. I doubt they will do so, as it’s very much an OS X-specific feature, and AIR is intended to be very much cross-platform.

Zack says...

@funkatron Oh well.  Thanks for a great application!

Vidyut Luther says...

Ed,
Do you mind if I setup a trac page for Spaz? I got bugs to report :).

kosmar says...

spaz is great. but unless you support german üäöß its just useless for my lil part of the globe. plz keep my updated about supporting all latin or better all unicode. thx

funkatron says...

@kosmar: I’ve not fiddled with any special unicode support, but Spaz (the AIR version, which is the only version being developed) displays cyrillic and japanese characters fine, so I don’t know why essets and umlauted vowels wouldn’t. I believe all non-7bit ASCII chars come through from Twitter as HTML entities.  Can you send me a screenshot that includes what chars are *not* working for you?

kosmar says...

seems only ü and ö are not working, as they are not accepted as input. i type put nothing happens. see my test here: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/kosmar/504923

kosmar says...

could that be a bug with air and german keyboard layouts? just wild guessing.

Ed Finkler says...

Very possibly. I’ll see if I can find any info on that. Try typing into the username field in the prefs too… if that blocks their input, I’d bet there’s an issue with the AIR beta.

kosmar says...

in fact. yes, thats the case in the username field of spaz … anyway my pownce client running in the same air runtime accepts all german ÜÄÖüäöß , hm!?

funkatron says...

Pownce is Flex/Flash based, whereas Spaz is pure HTML and JS. There are definitely more issues with the HTML widgets in the current AIR beta.

Marius Ooms says...

Thanks for developing spaz! I just installed it and noticed that the notification goes off for the public time-line. Is it possible to change this to only have notifications for twitter from people I’m following?

I don’t intend to follow the whole world, just the ones I choose to and so this makes the notification sound obsolete and distracting, since it rings ever minute.

Anyway, you get my drift. Is this a valid request? I’m already thrilled with what you have made.

Thanks

funkatron says...

@Marius: Yes, very valid.  First off, make sure you’re using the AIR version—the Realbasic app is not being developed anymore.  If you’re on the AIR version and hearing notification sounds, then you have the latest dev version.  I’m definitely tweaking when the notification sounds go off—my intention is to only have them go off when you have *new* messages from people you are following.  This should be the case when I release the final 0.2.0.

Thanks for the compliments!

Graeme Dunlop says...

Could Spaz.AIR go to older tweets, ie, past page 1 on home?

Graeme Dunlop says...

Sorry for more comment stuff, just thought of something else. I only tweet when I’m at a computer (not gadgeted up enuff to use phone, blackberry whatever). I usually want to know what my ppls have said so I have to go back “x” pages to catch up. Could Spaz have a “pick up where you left off feature?” Could it somehow remember I exited 23 hours ago and start displaying tweets from that time forward, to the present?

funkatron says...

@Graeme: both good ideas.  The first one would probably be the better way to go, because while the API allows you to specify a “since” parameter when retrieving a timeline, it will still max out at 20 tweets.  Paging back through your friends timeline would give you the ability to view more than 20, and would be a lot easier to implement. ;)

Graeme Dunlop says...

@funk Sure, no probs. If you can get the the normal paging stuff in, I’d be more than happy :-)

Graeme Dunlop says...

Howdy. Love the new 0.2.2 update, and the fact that the detection and installation were automatic.

The paging seems good, gimme a few days to road test it.

Two odd things:
* No matter what I put for “Refresh interval” it reverts to 2 as soon as I leave the field.
* There seems to be some lag or block on updating the personal timeline. Even if I know there’s new tweets and force a tab reload, they don’t show up. Eventually they do but I can’t figure what what trips the update.

funkatron says...

@Graeme:

Refresh needs to be an integer between 2 and 60 (this is described in the What’s New document). If you’re entering integers in that range and it’s still resetting to 2, tell me what you’re putting in and I’ll try to replicate here.

The lag is on Twitter’s end—I’ve been seeing it some too.  Nothing’s changed in the code to retrieve that data, so AFAICT it is just Twitter being a little funky.

funkatron says...

@Graeme:

Actually, I just tracked the problem down to an issue when using paging with the API.  I have released a workaround with version 0.2.3, which you should be able to get with your auto-updating.

Graeme Dunlop says...

@funk, many thanks for such a quick response, the refresh does seem better.

On the “Refresh Interval” param in preferences I’m still seeing the same behaviour. Here’s exactly what happens:
* got to Prefs tab
* click inside Refresh interval field
* press Backspace to remove the “2”
* type “5”
* press Tab
* value reverts to “2”

alternatively…
* same previous steps up to type “5”
* don’t leave field but click on “Save Preferences”
* value reverts to “2”

If I manually edit “preferences.xml” and alter the interval (ie, <network refreshinterval = ‘300000’>) it does pick it up on restart.

If you want me to dump HTML or enable debugging or whatever, let me know. I can try tracking it through Firebug if you like.

funkatron says...

@Graeme: I checked again, and was having the same problem.  No idea why I didn’t catch this.  A new version is out that fixes this.

Graeme Dunlop says...

@funk, what can I say except thanks again for a speedy update!!

Michael says...

I’m getting errors loading “https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml” and also errors loading “https://twitter.com/statuses/replies.xml”.

Any idea how I can resolve this problem?

Thanks.

funkatron says...

Not much. Can you load any data? If not, it’s likely something between you and twitter. Turning on debugging might be a good idea—I don’t have much to go on here.

seyDoggy says...

Tried to install spaz on a new system and it seems that Adobe released a new air beta yesterday. Current spaz wont work with the new beta.

funkatron says...

Yeah, the current version needs Beta 1, and you CAN have Beta 1 and Beta 2 on the same machine *if* you install Beta 1 FIRST. I will have a Beta 2 version up ASAP… but if you poke around, you might find a dev version I’ve uploaded 8).

Graeme says...

Just an FYI—successfully loaded 0.2.6. Sequence was:
* start 0.2.5
* receive update notice and click Yes
* update fails because it needs AIR beta 2
* download and install AIR beta 2
* restart 0.2.5
* receive update notice and click Yes
* update succeeds
* happy user

Spaz just keeps getting better! And with mousewheel support and keyboard shortcuts working, I couldn’t be happier. It’s a beautiful piece of work; gratz guys. Loving the “whitespace” theme, btw. And the Tokyo Subway sounds are great, too.

(Cheez. Starting to sound like a fanboi. Tone it down, dude)

Graeme says...

k, a few observations.

* can’t seem to page backwards from page 1 of friends timeline. keeps returning “Error loading https://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline.xml”

* the direct messages tab keeps returning “No data returned”, even when i request a manual reload

everything else seems to be ok. i’ll keep an eye on the above; it might be twitter’s fault as it’s been a little flaky lately.

funkatron says...

See, you made up for fanboi-ishness by point out bugs!

Yeah, I’ve seen some of these too.  I really wanted to get out a version that worked with Beta 2, but it definitely is rougher than I would have liked.  I’ll be working on a cleaned-up 0.2.7 when I get home from MAX.

Walt says...

interesting app… Twitter is addictive

Graeme says...

Another observation: can’t load 0.2.6 on my home machine, which is running 0.2.0. I’ve tried uninstalling both AIR betas then reinstalling, then manually installing 0.2.6—no joy. Also tried the one-click install above—no joy. It keeps complaining about the AIR version. Not at home right now, will post exact error message later.

Bryan Villarin says...

I’m with @Graeme - I can’t get past Page 1, either. Other than that, it looks slick so far. Nice work!

funkatron says...

The paging issue is one on Twitter’s side—it’s been disabled for the time being.

Graeme, not sure about the issues you’re having. Best I’d could say is to report the problem to Adobe’s AIR team.

Bryan Villarin says...

@funkatron: Thanks for the quick reply, man. :)

Spaztester! says...

please insert system tray icon option in new version!

funkatron says...

@Spaztester: definitely something I’m looking into ;)

Graeme says...

OK, a few probs with 0.27 (which I’ve now overcome, see final bullet below):

* none of the windows/tabs contain anything—friends, replies, DMs, etc. The Prefs window shows up :-) I assume it’s related to the new feature where stuff doesn’t show up until it renders correctly

* when I start it up, there’s an error window I can’t dismiss. Contents are as follows (kinda big, sorry)

Error loading https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml
Spry.Data.updateRegion(friends-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(replies-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(dm-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(user-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(public-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(friendslist-detail) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(friendslist) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(followerslist-detail) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(followerslist) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(friends-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(replies-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(dm-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(user-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(public-timeline) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(friendslist-detail) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(friendslist) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(followerslist-detail) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value
Spry.Data.updateRegion(followerslist) caught an exception: TypeError: Undefined value

* i tried switching themes with the vague idea it might help. it doesn’t.

* I then uninstalled it and killed all the Spaz folders I could find in Documents and Settings (only one I think under C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data). When I reinstalled, all was sweetness and light! (erm, meaning it works).

Hope this is helpful.

BTW, for mine, a systray icon is useless.

xxdesmus says...

The app is completely failing at life for me. I input my login info...it checks, says it’s verified, but it refuses to load any of the timelines.

funkatron says...

@xxdesmus: can you try on another machine and/or another network?

Also, if you enable debugging and restart, the debug output is logged to a file in your Documents dir. you can email that to me if you want me to take a look.

xxdesmus says...

I have the log file, what’s your email address? or drop me an email xxdesmus @ Google’s Email Service.

Thanks for the assistance.

funkatron says...

@xxdesmus: received and responded.

Graeme says...

@funk: props for the Markdown support. Fab idea.

James Francis says...

I really like the look and feel of Spaz… but the “users you are following” tab isn’t working… it says “no data returned”, but I know I am following people.  Thanks.

James Francis says...

Well, now nothing is working… it says “error loading...”

Ed Finkler says...

@James: the first issue is because of a change between AIR beta 1 and b2, the consequence of which is that some timelines are only returning data that is new in the past 24 hours. If you haven’t followed anyone new recently, you’ll see that.  I’ve fixed this in my current dev version, though, so you should see it working properly in the next release.

The second thing you saw was probably Twitter mucking up or you exceeding the 70 requests per hour limit. The next version will report request limit probs more clearly, if they come up.

James Francis says...

Thanks Ed… love the hair!

Andy Merrett says...

Sounds intriguing, but I’m sorry - I’m *never* going to use a client that has such a derogatory title (in the UK, at least).

There’s no chance in hell that I’m going to feel comfortable sending out Tweets signed as being sent from “Spaz”. Not to my UK contacts, at least.

Ed Finkler says...

@Andy: Sorry! I’m aware of the association it has in the UK, but certainly did not have it in mind when I named the app.  I might feel differently if it was a commercial application, but changing the name isn’t something I’m interested in doing.

I might consider putting in a pref to disable reporting of the app to Twitter, though, if users were interested in that.  You can also download and modify the source code as you wish (http://code.google.com/p/spaz).

Beogradoholik says...

I can’t launch Spaz because AIR iz an older version, a there are no newer ones on Adobe’s site! What should I do???

Ed Finkler says...

@Beogradoholik: AIR Beta 2 is the newest version, and that’s what Spaz works with.

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html

If you have that and are still having probs, trying uninstalling AIR completely, then restarting, then reinstalling. If you still have issues, you’d need to contact Adobe about the problem.

M says...

I’m really excited to find Spaz because Twitterific made itself completely unusable in the last update.

However, I have to say that the default style is THE ugliest thing I’ve ever seen and my repeated attempts to make it use a different style have failed miserably. Each time I choose a different style and then click “Save Preferences”, it either crashes or the style is gone when I restart the app. Any ideas?

Oh, and the icon also disturbs me… kind of a lot. I will be replacing that immediately.

All that being said, THANK YOU! I think this could be a really great app.

Ed Finkler says...

@ M:

I’m aware of the issue with saving the theme prefs, and will fix shortly.

Also, protip: doesn’t help to call the developer’s design work “THE ugliest thing [you’ve] ever seen,” especially when you want them to help you. ;)

Oblivion says...

I twittered about this, but twitter is being useless today, so I thought I’d mention it here.

This is a really cool app, but I’ve noticed (on WinXP) that it’s a memory hog.  On launch, Task Manager reports is using 40MB of RAM.  I just had to shut it down as it climbed to 110MB used. As I was typing a tweet, I could watch usage climb about 400k per letter typed.  Any idea what’s going on here?  Anything I can do to help debug?  You’d have to hold my hand, though - I’m not a developer.

Thanks.

Ed Finkler says...

The memory leak appears (as far as I and Jonathan Snook can determine) to be a problem with AIR beta 2. I’ve not seen the memory climb the way you describe while typing, but on each timeline reload you will see a jump. There’s not much we can do about it until Adobe fixes the issue, I don’t think. Sorry!

Oblivion says...

Thansk for the update on the memory leak.  I’ll just try to remember to restart the app every once in a while.  It’s still more useful than relying on Twitter page auto-refreshes or on GTalk updates.

Greg Fischer says...

Kudos on an awesome Twitter app. It’s definitely my favorite among the AIR apps out there. If I could code worth anything, Spaz is what i’d have written for myself in a Twitter client ;)

funkatron says...

Thanks Greg!

Johnny C says...

one thing: UTF. It sucks trying to speak with my friends in portuguese and not being able to use special characters like ã, é and so on…

Johnny C says...

oh, sorry =x I forgot to say that except for that detail the software is awesome =D keep up the great work! =D

dj paine says...

LOVE THE SPAZ!!
here’s my review:

http://www.djp72.net/blog/2008/01/07/in-love-with-part-three-spaz/

funkatron says...

@djpaine: thanks for the kind words!

funkatron says...

@JohnnyC: You will have more luck with the new version that uses AIR Beta 3, I think. You should check the users group for more info.

李恒 says...

SNS给我们提供了太多种可能性，但我们的思维方式还是仅仅局限于猫扑，所以，我们只能制造热闹，制造口水，制造流量和虚拟的繁荣幻象，却无法给我们的日常生活提供价值。

Allison Sheridan says...

i live my life behind a corporate firewall, so proxy access is a requirement for me.  any chance that’s coming soon?  Twitterpod is the only Twitter app I’ve found so far with proxy access, but it seems to hang up and not send data and then send a big burst, not really consistent enough for my tastes.

Tiara says...

Is there any way to make the URLs open in Firefox instead of IE? I have Firefox set as my default browser but all links are opening in IE7 instead (maybe because it uses .url, which IE7 has a stronghold over?). If that would change, then Spaz would be PERFECT.

Also, how do I see the directory listing of all my friends and followers?

Ed Finkler says...

@allison: I honestly haven’t looked at proxy support. I’m a little surprised that AIR doesn’t follow system-wide proxy settings, though. I’ll poke around a bit and see what’s involved. You might consider filing an issue (See “Get Help” above).

@Tiara: this is an issue with AIR, and unfortunately not something I can fix. I’d recommend filing a bug with Adobe.

Nick says...

hi there,
the app looks awesome and i’m excited to try it!  however, when i try to install it gives me an error saying:
“Sorry, an error has occurred.
The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author.”

Ed Finkler says...

@Nick

I’ve seen this happen too, and I assume something has been corrupted in the download. you can grab the file manually at funkatron.com/getspaz. Sometimes that helps. Otherwise, you may want to search your machine for where AIR is caching the downloaded .air package and delete any of these; this may force a proper re-download.

richard says...

nice app, but the name isnt really anything but offensive is it?

Edward Finkler says...

It is absolutely *not* offensive to me, no. I can’t control what cultural context you may use it in. Sorry!

Markus says...

On first look the best Twitter client for Windows i’ve seen so far. Thanks!

Willis Whitlock says...

I have spastic ataxia. I don’t know if that makes me an authority or what. I like the name of the app. Haven’t downloaded it yet, but I’m about to.

funkatron says...

@Markus: Thank you!

@Willis: I’m glad you like it. Enjoyed your blog, btw.

Karolinger says...

I’m getting an annoying error. Thus Spaz not getting any new messages.

Here is the screenshot: http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/9085/spazerrorjs9.jpg

Ed Finkler says...

You’ll get the best support for problems on the Spaz users group:

http://groups.google.com/group/spaz-users

However, the error is pretty well described in the message. Your account is probably sending more than 70 requests per hour. Make sure you do not run *any* other Twitter API programs at the same time, and you may lower your refresh rate in Spaz’s preferences. The minimum is every 3 minutes, which would be 60 requests per hour.

Christopher W. says...

I’m really excited to see the app, but when I try to install I get the following error:

“This application requires a version of Adobe AIR which is no longer supported. Please contact the application author for an updated version.”

Just an FYI.

Chris from Cincinnati

Graeme says...

Hey Chris. I’ve had probs installing some of the Spaz versions. What’s fixed it for me, is completely killing AIR first, then trying to re-install Spaz. AIR being beta, it’s still a bit odd at times with versions etc. You on Windows?

BTW, the Spaz Users Group (http://groups.google.com/group/spaz-users) is a good place to get help. Welcome to Spaz!

Graeme says...

Aha. It could be that Adobe officially released AIR 1.0 (I think) and since Spaz it written for beta 3, AIR 1.0 doesn’t like it.

Jenny LaVada says...

Soo...any ideas as to when an update of Spaz will be happening?

Ed Finkler says...

Yeah, if you have only installed AIR 1.0, you may not be able to run Spaz. I’ll see if I can get a 1.0-compatible version in the next couple days.

Göte Borg says...

Thank you for this great piece of software.

Are you considering to support UTF-8?

Where can I find more information how to set up our corporate firewall to support Spaz?

Ed Finkler says...

@Göte: If you get on the spaz users group, we could discuss what problems you might be having with UTF-8 text in Spaz. From what I can determine, Spaz supports different character sets to the extent that all AIR HTML apps do.

Spaz does all of its talking over ports 80 and 443.

jacob says...

Hey, great app. Did you know that the send button is right over the scroll down button on the text entry field? You probably did. Thanks for the hard work.

Ed Finkler says...

@jacob: Yep, that doesn’t show up a whole lot, and I figured people would use their cursor keys to move up and down. I should probably tweak that, though.

Hans says...

This is the best application I’ve came across so far. I was only wondering if links could also be opened in Firefox? They now open in IE. And when I have a look at the help and info and pull the scrollbar it sometimes stays transparent and it’s hard to close the pop up help.

Ed Finkler says...

@Hans:

the linking issue is something with AIR—I can’t fix it myself! There’s some weirdness with those popups, yes, and we’ll probably move towards “normal” windows soon for those. Check the users group for more info (under Get Help above)

Discorax says...

Is anyone else having the problem with the “Exceeded Request Limit” Error 400 response from Twitter?

I’ve been getting it off and on since I updated tot he beta 3 version of Spaz.

funkatron says...

@Discorax: check the users group (look in “Get Help” above).

sventamagotchi says...

thanks - this is really good for twitter which i have just started to use
--
http://sventamagotchi.googlepages.com/home

Ed Finkler says...

Thanks Sven. I liked your tracks!

Gaveen says...

AIR alpha is now available for Linux from http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/air/ and Spaz was the 1st thing I tried. It’s very nice. Thanks guys.

Here’s a screenshot of Spaz running in my Ubuntu 7.10 installation. http://tinyurl.com/2neqbj

Josh says...

Looks like a nice Twitter client, but the shorten link feature doesn’t seem to work.  It says it shortens the link, but nothing shows up.

Ed Finkler says...

Josh, I’d need more details. Try joining the spaz-users group and bringing it up there.

Andy says...

Is the Spaz´s code on Air free?

How can I find it?

Ed Finkler says...

@Andy, check the “Dev” tab above.

Greg says...

I keep getting an error with the AIR file:

The application could not be installed because the AIR file is damaged. Try obtaining a new AIR file from the application author.

Greg says...

Just by way of an update, I grabbed the file over at download.com and it worked fine.

Sinclair Z. says...

How about making the close box just close the input window and NOT quit the app! I really like the tweet notifications, but hate having to have two icons in my dock to run Spaz (one for the app, one for it’s window).

funkatron says...

@Sinclair: I can see your point. I’ll give it some thought. You might want to file the request in the issue tracker, and/or bring it up on the spaz-users group to see if others would also be interested.

christechmedia says...

its not working!

funkatron says...

@christechmedia: You’ll need to give me a little more to go on 8)

Rich says...

Keep getting the following error code:

ERROR: 400 error - Exceeded request limit. Response from Twitter:
{"request”:"\/statuses\/friends_timeline.json?_=1209656702596”,"error":"Rate limit exceeded. Clients may not make more than 70 requests per hour."}

I notice someone on 2/22 had the exact same issue.  My refresh rate was already set at 3 minutes.  I changed it to 4, yet I still receive the same error code.  Not sure else to do now.

funkatron says...

Rich: Make sure to read the FAQ linked in the sidebar above.

Rich says...

I thought I had before posting my problem.  I guess I am missing something, sorry.

funkatron says...

Rich, the best way to help you will be on the spaz-users list. But to reiterate what the FAQ says, this is not a problem with Spaz, and you may have some luck with changing your password and seeing if that fixes the issue.

Puleen says...

I loaded Spaz on linux and was wondering how come each time I need to specify the username/password? It doesn’t seem to save the account information when I select “Save Preferences”. Is there an alternate way to specify these params within the preferences.xml file at all?

Great App otherwise!!!! Excellent!!!

funkatron says...

Puleen: it’s my understanding that the current public Alpha of AIR for Linux does not support the “EncryptedLocalStore” libraries that Spaz uses to save usernames and passwords. I am sure this will be fixed in the future.

Dave Donohue says...

I like this app’s UI and response time, esp. as compared to Twhirl.  However, I like the way that Twhirl allows direct access to @replies and dms.  Is that in the works?

funkatron says...

@Dave have you tried the “filter” toggle? CMD+F or CTRL+F will hide all but messages directed at you.

Jorge Mota says...

Hi I like this soft at all except with the order of tweets. Why are recent at top ? can I change this order?

Best regards, and congratulations, this look great.

funkatron says...

@ Jorge: There’s not a handy way to change the order of tweets yet. It’s ordered that way out of personal preference.

Will says...

Hi,

Would be nice if it remembered Window location and size. Also, would be nice if there was an option to start minimized. On Windows XP.

Thanks,

Will

Will says...

By the way it would be nice that after leaving a comment when the page refreshes that it would take you to your comment url instead of just the main page, so that you can see it was successfully posted, without having to manually go looking. Of course I’m talking about leaving comments on your blog.

armandg says...

Hi!
Great program, but wondering if it’ll support converting of links/url to snurl or any alike services to minimize text?

funkatron says...

Will, armand: please post your questions on the Spaz-Users grouo on Google: http://groups.google.com/group/spaz-users

Thanks.

Mark S. says...

I really like Spaz, although…

When I sent an update while it was downloading updates, it went quickly from regular colors to inverted and back several times, with a sound, and text on the screen that I didn’t read… It was creepy o_O;

But other than that, I’ve also used Twhirl, and I actually like Spaz better than Twhirl.

Keep up the good work!

kibitzer says...

Hey Mark, welcome to Spaz! You’ve been Wilhelm’d! Please check here (http://funkatron.com/spaziki/FAQ/#Spaz-sometimes-screams-at-me--What-s-that-about-) for an explanation; basically if you “twoosh” Wilhelm appears.

Trond says...

RealBasic Pro can be builded for all OS. RealBasic also has a Linux version.

funkatron says...

@ Trond Yep! When I was working on the RB version, I built for all three OSes it supports.

jzy says...

It’s cool

Heretushi says...

Hey Funkatron, I love the new update! Fixed a lot of little problems I had. GREAT app, the best for Twitter right now. I tried pretty much all cross-platform clients and Spaz just has a lead over all of them. Keep up the great work! :)

Martin says...

Well done on a really nice tool, but like a couple of people here although I _really_ like the app, I find the name offensive, which makes using it difficult. I don’t think the defence of ‘it’s not offensive to me’ holds up much. Just in terms of its uptake it means, for instance, I could never blog about it as I would be seen to be condoning the derogatory term. It’s unfortunate, a bit more time thinking about the name could have saved this. Would Spiz have been too much of a compromise, for instance?

funkatron says...

Martin:

Different things are offensive in different cultures. I’m sorry your culture finds it offensive. Mine does not. I don’t flip out when I read a reference to “smoking a fag” in UK print. It’s a cultural difference, and I deal with it.

Honestly, I don’t care if you blog about it or not, and I don’t care about “uptake.” I created Spaz because I wanted to create something useful *to me* and because I enjoy the process of application development. I am unconcerned about how many people use it, because I don’t get validation from that.

If people like Spaz, great. If not, that’s fine too. The source code is available to you if you want to change it for your own purposes.

Richard says...

How do I uninstall Spaz?

Matthi says...

This Client works cool… I will try to work with this with Linux Fluxbuntu and write a report at http://otell.de

Greets Matthi

Andy says...

Thanks. I saw something like that on a site http://zymnavoda.org.ua/ but now there is nothsing about this client...((

Rakibul Islam says...

Great application, i just love it.

Phil L. says...

Says Linux is supported, but I guess not.

funkatron says...

Phil: Try Googling “AIR Linux.” You’ll quickly discover that AIR is in alpha on Linux, and Spaz does run under it with special AIR1.0-compatible builds.

Phil says...

Finally got Air installed on Ubuntu, opens other packages without a problem, but refuse to open Spaz. Give back a failure, says the Air app is corrupt. Tried downloading Spaz 3 times.