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Is there a desktop application for ping.fm?
Is there a desktop application for ping.fm? I want to easily update my status while working.
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Here's one I made in C#, It's just a single exe and dll, no big ugly install package. (requires .net framework 2.0, most people have it already).
http://www.adamduffy.com/pingfm/PingF...
This is not our "official" desktop application since Sean still thinks it needs to be prettier. I think it's awesome though, especially for pinging at work, it has a very small interface that people won't even notice if they're watching over your shoulder. You can also use Windows Key + P to bring it up without using the mouse.
The DLL source if available on the ping.fm developer forum if anyone is interested.
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I use Pidgin for all of my Ping.fm needs. Just add Ping.fm as an friend on msn, gtalk, yahoo etc. and post to ping from your favorite IM. (Pidgin, MSN,Yahoo,GTalk etc.)
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Inappropriate?I was in the process of making one when we decided to make a developer API.. I want to re-make it using the API and perhaps even release it open source. It's on the list but I might move it up in priority now.
It won't be a "cool" adobe air app, or vista sidebar, just a plain desktop app for windows (not linux or mac).. Mainly as an example of how to make one, but it will be decent.
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Cool, that's all I'm looking for, is a plain desktop app. Thanks! -
Inappropriate?Here's one I made in C#, It's just a single exe and dll, no big ugly install package. (requires .net framework 2.0, most people have it already).
http://www.adamduffy.com/pingfm/PingF...
This is not our "official" desktop application since Sean still thinks it needs to be prettier. I think it's awesome though, especially for pinging at work, it has a very small interface that people won't even notice if they're watching over your shoulder. You can also use Windows Key + P to bring it up without using the mouse.
The DLL source if available on the ping.fm developer forum if anyone is interested.
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PERFECT. Thanks a lot!
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Exactly what I needed! Thanks! The only thing is when I want to "exit" the whole program "goes away" and I have to re-install!
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When you download select "save" instead of open, then save it to your desktop or documents and you can run it directly from there.
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Saving the app key doesn't seem to work for me, any ideas? Does it create a .config file I can edit manually?
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Sounds like you may not have rights on the computer. If you login as admin you should be able to set it, then switch back to your normal account to use it.
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Aye - that worked - only had to run it as administrator once. Thanks :)
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Hey, since its in C#, any chance on having it run on Mono? So it could run on Ubuntu or (with more hacking) on OSX even?
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http://www.adamduffy.com/pingfm/PingF... this app is simply the best. i like it because it's simple and pops up with just Win + P
i have created posting groups like #blogs and #status but i wonder why these posting group methods don't work in this app... waiting for answer. -
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I agree! j/k
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Inappropriate?Found a minor bug in the application.. please download the updated version (1.0.0.1) from the same location. I may be adding some features to it later, if anyone has any suggestions let me know.
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Hi Adam - the app is great. Thanks for taking the time to make it. Surprisingly I can't think of any way it can be improved. Simple is best.
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Revise the above feedback. It really is necessary to know when you reach the 140 character mark. Would be great to have that.
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Yeah, I noticed that too when I started using it more. I'll add that.
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I'm not sure whether this is technically possible - but in Twitter where it says " 15 minutes ago from Ping.fm " could the 'from' be 'from Ping.fm Windows App'. Would help to show usage stats and spread word about the app virally. I'm also passively tracking which posting mechanisms I use most.
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I think "from ping.fm" is enough to spread the word that way. We could do from ping.fm aim, gtalk, iphone, email, desktop, api, etc.. but ping.fm is much simpler (twitter has to approve each one). We have our own internal metrics for where the source is.
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Is it me, or does adding a * before a URL (to avoid shortening) not work from the app??? Regardless of that, a really cool feature would be to calculate the word count assuming the URL will be shortened (when there is no *). Otherwise you have to calculate manually.
Anyway, great app as it is. I use it a lot. Great for speed reporting earthquakes in Japan :-) -
Inappropriate?Added character counter (it only starts counting when you get to 50). Same download location.
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Great. Thanks!
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Inappropriate?uh... what about application for Mac platform? Will i have to make it myself? .( and where's API documentation?
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API documentation seems to be linked from here: http://ping.fm/developers/
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Inappropriate?Just in case you were abou to try.....
Doesn't work in Fedora in Wine 0.9.57 -
Inappropriate?Ping is now running great as a standalone app in Prism
Prism is Mozilla's alternative to Adobe Air
http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/
Excellent in Linux and Windows so far..........
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Inappropriate?If anyone is on the Mac platform, check out Fluid (http://fluidapp.com) which works nicely with Pingout.
It's able to run any website and create an application for it.
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Inappropriate?Fluid works great for me. The only problem now is that I still need a seperate app to see other peoples tweets, pings etc
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Inappropriate?I use Pidgin for all of my Ping.fm needs. Just add Ping.fm as an friend on msn, gtalk, yahoo etc. and post to ping from your favorite IM. (Pidgin, MSN,Yahoo,GTalk etc.)
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Inappropriate?PingFMDesktop doesn't support Central European characters ... čšž. Is there a way to fix this?
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Inappropriate?If you use Twitter, try the "Spaz" Twitter software client. It connects to Ping.fm which resends the message to all your networks. It use Adobe Air, so it works on Windows as well as Mac and you can get it here:
http://funkatron.com/spaz
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Looks like Spaz is the best options for now. I miss the twitpic options in Spaz.
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Inappropriate?this worked nicely and then yeasterday it suddenly kept giving me an error tat says "error sending messages: api.ping.fm could not be resolved". or something like that.
i restarted the program, i reset my key and still nothing. I have all the firewalls turned off.
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Inappropriate?Hey you cna always try out my desktop widget if its not working for you:
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Inappropriate?So, for Mac users, the path is either with Fluid, Spaz (but Tweetdeck does a better job handling twit threads) or the browser. Nevermind, no big deal. Hope that an iPhone app will appear one day, though.
I’m a Mac user... well :-)
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Inappropriate?Where can I find the Ubuntu Linux version of the desktop app....?
Oh!
I just read the Pidgn suggestion.... GREAT idea!
Ubuntu Rocks! Everything from IM to BitTorrent is built-in and comes as 'standard equipment'...
I’m thankful for Ping.fm
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Well there is always Mono...however I keep getting the following
alan@bluecat:~/PingFMDesktop$ mono PingFMDesktop.exe
Unhandled Exception: System.EntryPointNotFoundException: RegisterHotKey
at (wrapper managed-to-native) PingFMDesktop.frmMain:RegisterHotKey (intptr,int,int,int)
at PingFMDesktop.frmMain..ctor () [0x00000]
at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) PingFMDesktop.frmMain:.ctor ()
at PingFMDesktop.Program.Main () [0x00000]
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That's because its attempting to do a Windows-specific function for registering the Windows-P shortcut. You could safely remove this part of the code and recompile, it'd probably work
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Since mentioning MePing, I've since started using thwirl again which now supports posting to ping.fm. I disable posting to twitter on ping.fm and use thwirl. Whatever I post to twitter, also gets posted to ping.fm which in turn gets posted to everything else. a great solution if you use a twitter client to keep up with the latest messages and what not from your contacts. you loose the ping.fm special features this way, however.
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Inappropriate?Hi Adam - can't get your desktop app working. Fails every time I try to update status...is it broken? Cheers, Liam1 Comment Add a comment
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Does it give you an error message in the popup balloon?
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Inappropriate?Hi Adam, thanks for your quick reply. It has an orange-y exclamation mark in the icon and says "Ping.fm - error sending message." :(
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?It's working now - I believe it was behind a firewall...doh.
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