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I got really sick of using Adobe AIR apps that take up more and more of system memory for an app that does twitter.

I’ve decided to put my “coding for myself” hat on and write a QT based C++ application (that should be cross-platform). No name as yet, but I will find something soon. QtTwitter is taken. Mebbe, once I have a working version, I can get ownership of the project on google code.

That’s the proposed GUI. Sorry for the bad light. The iphone cam’s not too good with tungsten light.

Any suggestions?! I will try and post some mock up as I create em. I don’t want to be writing my own twitter REST c++ library. Any suggestion are welcome.

I have the very distinct feeling that a bunch of people from India, are going to visit my site today. Maybe, it is too late, but nonetheless, I was compelled to post before I left for work, after staying up the whole night (watching movies). No really – Van Helsing followed by American Gangster – two very find movies, I might add, but I digress.

I got the honour, of being one of the few listed on a fellow tech-enthusiast‘s list of “twittering” Indians. It’s not everyday that I make someone’s list, and hence the compulsion to blog about it. So, thank you Yuvi. Since he described me as a programmer, on his list, it’s only fair –


if (knowsYuvi(you)) {
Thanks for visiting this blog;
Between work and twitter, I hardly update this space anymore;
Do, add it to your feedreader, so someday, you might see something useful
} else {
visit Yuvi's blog;
follow him on twitter;
send him a tweet, saying hi;
}


I discovered today, that twitter+zooomr+a small utility called Cropper, now allows us to put new information about some of the products we use often, out into the blogosphere (I hate that word now), faster than ever before.

Check this image that I posted this image on zooomr on 12th Dec and then twittered it.

I found a blog post, by (I presume) one of the engineer’s who made it happen, on the google’s official blog. Although, I didn’t post the exact feature he was talking about, I noticed the feature too on another search I was doing that day.

Timing is becoming critical these days. Although, I guess more people out there learnt about the feature from his blog entry, it is becoming less relevant from the tech-crowd’s perspective. With guys like Scoble, Mike and Dave Winer, it is quite tough keeping an announcement out of the crowds for long.