Maybe there'll be some competition in the Twitter application space after all. Don't hesitate to give Ed some feedback, though. Pull down and an egg breaks open, Ollie appears, flaps his wings to bring in fresh content, and then spins and pops out. It's available as freeware for Mac OS X, but also on Windows and Linux! However, Ed warns that currently there are no guarantees, and the pre-1.0 release means that there could be bugs. Twitterrific's iconic Ollie, the bright blue bird responsible for even Twitter's own avian branding, has become the most delightful pull-to-refresh animation to date. If you're dying to check out what else is out there, go ahead and give Spaz a try. From what I have seen of the next version thus far, Spaz will auto-refresh whatever timeline you are currently viewing, so you can even have it auto-refresh your replies timeline if that's what you want, you egotist you. However, Ed told me that he is already tinkering with auto-refreshing (without breaking Twitter's rate limit) for the next version, and so we can probably expect to see that pop up pretty soon. The one major downfall (for me, and probably a lot of people) is that Spaz does not currently auto-update the timelines-you have to manually refresh them on your own. There's also Growl support, if you're into that sort of thing. It also has multi-user support, so if you maintain multiple Twitter accounts for some reason, you can enter them all into the preferences and follow them all at once. Double-clicking on a direct message starts a reply to the message. So, if you have more followers than friends but some of those followers reply to something you say, you can see it within the app.Ī few other cool tidbits about Spaz is that you can double-click on any particular user, which then starts a public reply to that user. And even though Twitterrific looks cooler, is more advanced, and offers a lot more options, Spaz actually does a few things that Twitterrific does not.įor one, Spaz not only lets you view the public timeline and your friends' timeline, it also allows you to see (within the program) direct messages sent to you as well as replies that people have made in response to your "tweets." You can see those replies even if you haven't subscribed to the Twitter feeds of the people who have replied to you. Written by Ars reader Ed Finkler, Spaz is still in its early stages (the most recent release is version 0.3.2). ![]() (Check our our video interviews with developers from both Twitter and Twitterrific for more information.)īut Twitterrific isn't the only OS X-compatible Twitter app on the block. Nissan says this refreshed Sentra will hit dealers this summer, but updated pricing isn’t available quite yet.Mac users who also use Twitter tend to be huge fans of Iconfactory's Twitterrific application, and why shouldn't they? The app rules, looks good, and does the job well. The SR adds heated front seats as standard equipment. Inside the Sentra, Nissan sweetens the deal for the SV Premium grade with a 360-degree camera, eight-speaker Bose audio system and turn signal-equipped mirrors. A new Atlantic Gray paint option joins the stable, too. Inside, the Sentra SR gains red-orange stitching all around for a sportier vibe. Changes include a dark-finish V-Motion grille, dark chrome lower bumper features, body-color trim strip below the grille, red SR badges front and rear and a new rear lower fascia graphic to visually widen the rear end. The SR that you see in the photos here is treated to a stronger refresh than other models to bring it in line with what we’ve already seen on the Altima SR. The SV grade adds new 16-inch wheels, too. Every trim gets a re-styled front fascia with new headlights. The biggest design change is seen up front. Its 2.0-liter naturally aspirated four-cylinder is carryover with 149 horsepower and 146 pound-feet of torque. Nissan says the Sentra is more fuel efficient as a result of this transmission, but hasn’t provided EPA figures for comparison just yet. ![]() The Sentra utilized a CVT before, but this one is updated to provide a smoother shifting pattern and support an idle start/stop system. While most of the changes are superficial, there is one big mechanical update in that Nissan says it’s rocking a new Xtronic continuously variable transmission. The 2024 Nissan Sentra just debuted a light-touch mid-cycle refresh that spruces up its design and tech inside and out.
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