Here is a screenshot.

I am happy!

Thanks Adobe!

I am aware it is a shallow approach, but Tweetanium is much more hungry than Posty, in spite the fact that Tweetanium supports just one service (Twitter) whereas Posty includes Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Friendfeed and Identi.ca. That said I list few items which can help to contextualize the comparison:

• Disclosure: I am the author of Posty, though I think the comparison is pretty fair. Anyway I am open to criticism.
• Titanium is a prerelease version. It can improve.
• The Air framework is a bit ‘older’ than Titanium, probably more time has been spent to improve memory consumption
• Posty’s memory usage has been optimized, whereas Titanium (I think) has been built to show how easy is to build a Twitter client with the SDK, so probably not much effort has been put in optimizing memory consumption.
• Air’s is made by Adobe, a company. Probably this means more money and time invested in a project (though I am clearly aware that more money does not mean a better product)
• The comparison regards only memory consumption. I am sure there are many other aspects that can be put on the table before saying “this is better than that”.

This is why I think this post has just to provoke a discussion. I will be glad to hear your opinion.

Thanks Jacob and colleagues for the opportunity!

I was re-impressed by the graph used in that post, which represents the many sides of user experience design.

Now I realize why I am so tired when I go to bed. Because it’s like I am doing six jobs, which are:

• Information Architecture
• Human Computer Interaction
• Interaction design
• User Interface Design
• Human Factors Engineering
• Usability

Should revise my hourly rate :)

Here is the change log:

• implemented hiding of menubar on macosx
• hiding of secondary monitors
• added Save As shortcut
• added word-count (optionally displayed, check the settings)
• wanna open a txt file right in Focused? just drag it over its icon (or shortcut)

The new version can be downloaded from Focused home page or via automatic update.


Enjoy!

But there is more. Flex Builder is already for free if you are a student or a faculty member. During this period of crisis Adobe has decided to release Flex Builder for free also to unemployed people. So if you are planning to learn a new framework to get a new job, this is a good opportunity.

This is the link to check out.

I really wish you good luck. As a good auspice, below is the trend for flex developers. Pretty good uh?

"flex developer" Job Trends

"flex developer" jobs

• Adobe is a great community. have a bug? post it on the forums and you’ll get a reply!
• if you ever attended an Adobe’s conference, people are friendly and share a lot of their experience.
• there are lots of people sustaining the community, spreading the word and enhancing good products.
• such a community gave me much when I was at the beginning. My service as moderator is a sort of “payback”

So thanks to Jeffrey Schwartz for picking me as moderator.


PS: from now on … pay attention at what you post! :)

PS: Posty has now a new signed certificate. The automatic update from previous versions might fail. You might need to uninstall the old version before installing the new one.

CHANGE LOG

• post panel always visible at the bottom
• custom panel: configurable to show the timelines you like
• added “check for updates now” button
• fixed double monitor bug
• hide show commands on rollover
• added options in twitter/friendfeed search
• solved tumblr login bug
• tweaked blue and green theme
• toggle buttons to choose the service to be updated
• new timelines: twitter and identi.ca favorites

I have set up a poll here. State your opinion!