MRR Software

At long last I’ve locked down the feature set of Syrinx 2.0.  From here I have a short list of known issues I need to work through, then it’s on to a beta.

As many of you know, this release was all about the need for speed.  The tweet timeline, friends list and new search timeline are now tables complete with custom cells.  This results in smooth scrolling and fast searching/conversation viewing even with thousands of tweets.  The memory footprint has also been significantly reduced.

Though the main goal was to upgrade the speed and usability of what was already available in Syrinx, I still wanted to add some much requested features to this release.  But eventually every developer has to let go and make a release, so I’ve locked the feature set and am prepping for beta.

Here’s a list of the features new to 2.0:

• Search – Now you can search all of twitter with auto-updating search windows.
• URL Shortening – Highlight a link in the status update area and use this option to shorten the URL using tinyurl.com
• Tweet Deleting – Ability to delete your own tweets
• Retweet – Automatically retweet the selected tweet
• Open Links – Open all the links in the selected tweet from a keyboard shortcut.  Plus the links are opened in the background.

There was a question posted to the last blog entry about 2.0 release schedule and alpha distribution.  The only alphas in use are by myself and Mike from Fruit Stand Software.  Mike helps validate my builds (Xcode delights in forgetting to include my resources) and to help find initial functionality bugs that I would not ordinarily encounter in my usage.  As far as a release schedule I haven’t nailed anything down, but I hope to get these alpha bugs cleared up in the next week.  I will be tweeting and blogging about the 2.0 release as it progresses.