TweetSaver: WCF + WPF + fun
TweetSaver has slowly been creeping into the CodePlex project for MahTweets over the last week or so, and now the first alpha release of it is live!
What is TweetSaver?
- Twitter + Screensaver
- Uses WCF to connect to MahTweets - you can have it on multiple machines with no extra API usage!
- Uses WPF for display
- Name is by Will, so blame him
It uses MahTweets (requires MahTweets "Alpha 3" and up - Alpha 3 is designated by Change Sets 4309 or higher) and WCF for communication (TCP endpoint). Just like MahTweets, TweetSaver will get tweets in real time as MahTweets pushes out the tweets via WCF, which means no more Twitter API calls are made!
The really cool part of this would be if you had one MahTweets 'server' (for lack of a better word), and TweetSaver on an entire office of computers. One connection/set of API calls could do an entire office (of…your twitter feed). If you went to any of the Australian Heroes Happens Here events, you'd have noticed they had lots of twitter screens setup, all logged into the Twitter webpage - this would get around having each one logged in, and look prettier ;)
Requirements
- .NET 3.0
- Twitter account
- Jabber (G-Talk will do) account preconfigured for IM with Twitter
- For TweetSaver to run correctly, MahTweets must be open
Installation
- Download
- Extract
- Run MahTweets, click allow to the Windows Firewall request (if you want TweetSaver to work) and configure MahTweets
- Right click on TweetSav.scr, and select 'Install' - no configuration is needed unless you want to try it out over a network
Disclaimer
You're downloading this of your own free will, so we take no responsibility if your computer crashes, hard drive self formats, you develop a drinking problem, and so on and so forth. While it is an "alpha" release, at worst, it should either crash itself or hog resources - nothing "deadly".
Download the release-build of changeset 4309