MRR Software

It’s been a busy few days since releasing Syrinx.  Unfortunately I had to push out a 1.0.1 within the first day, but it was a necessary fix and to let it linger would have meant having people miss out on tweets.  At the same time I fixed the sizing of the date/time field in the user’s most recent tweet and gave more room to current location(especially after seeing the GPS coords put in by some iPhone apps).

A brief perusal of the web shows that a lot of folks tried out Syrinx, and a lot of them liked it.  Many saw potential and others dismissed it as not Twitterific enough.  I am ok with that last one, because I did not enjoy using Twitterific and I would guess that anyone who really enjoys Twitterific will not like Syrinx.  Syrinx is, by design, very different.  Syrinx is a first class OS X app, it has a dock icon, a full fledged window, and it behaves much like you would expect an OS X app to.

The path ahead is clear, as I have a lot of enhancements I want to make and users have provided no shortage of feature requests.  The top runners so far are:

• Growl integration
• Hide the most recent tweet
• Make the window resize smaller

This last point is interesting because until I received the feedback from many of you, I was unaware there was a sizing issue, the window simply resize to as small as it can be while still showing all the necessary information.  So reducing the UI footprint will be an interesting challenge, and I will certainly take a stab at it.

As far as Growl goes, I myself have never used it.  The one time I thought I’d give it a try their website was down for an extended period of time and I never bothered to go back.  However, I think it would be a useful thing to build in as so many have requested it.  And who knows, maybe I’ll like it.