Long time ago in a far … no, wait, not that long ago but quite some months now Nymphicus didn’t get any real update.
But today my little bird is flying again – and even higher than anytime before: Nymphicus for Windows 2.1 has been released!
This update has been so overdue that the changelog is so long that I only will point out the most important points (or, to be honest, all of them I do remember :)).
Let’s start with my favorite social network – the App.net part of Nymphicus is for sure the one with the most changes. This is mainly because of Chapper (and Spinnaker) having been my playground in testing new festures in a “small” environment – but now it’s payday and all the stuff is coming back to Nymphicus.
But the first (and in my opinion) most important feature is one Chapper does not have (till now, stay tuned :))
- Nymphicus now supports user streaming for App.net
This means you retrieve new posts and messages immediately now. When you have seen it in action you don’t wanna live with the old up to 90 seconds delay anymore 🙂
The second one is from Chapper and Spinnaker
- Nymphicus now is able to add and parse MarkDown links
Also the third one is something already seen with Chapper
- Image uploading using the File-API is now included
(and also images are shown inline and when hovering with the mouse over them they are shown in full)
 
Now again a feature only Nymphicus has
- Repost (and favorite) a post using another account than the retrieving one (this one might stay within Nymphicus only – Chapper is a single account client as you know…)
And a long overdue one
- Account colors now do work with App.net account
so you see which account has been the retrieving one immediately
And a final small one for App.net
- the new App.net logo is used instead of the Alpha logo
That’s it for App.net. But even as I don’t will push the Twitter part anymore (you know why, don’t you?) I of course stabilize stuff in there so here is a quite important fix
- Retrieving saved search results works again
A very short one for Google Reader
- Google Reader has been removed completely
(I’ll think about adding some RSS later on – but not before someone places a wish for that :))
And some general stuff
- The quick filters (the button which used to be in the upper right corner) has been completely rewritten and is now a dropdown menu
- … and App.net has been added to the quick filters
- … and those App.net quick filters now feature a “show only post with images” filter – I think I will extend this part later on 🙂
Finally much (oh yeah, really much) code refactoring, smaller design changes and many bugfixes. I think in sum the changes are quite bigger than those from 1.4 to 2.0 by the lines of new code 🙂
Oh, one more think – as I have posted during the development phase:
Nymphicus for Windows is now 4.99 € and Chapper is now 2.99 €. I should have written this in the middle of the post as I learned recently in the “Sandwich method” – but who cares 🙂