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I do think that the $15 is a bit steep for an application like this, and since there was a free version, I was okay with it. But I’m fed up with it. I feel like writing my own Twitter client and undercut Iconfactory. Too bad I have very little knowledge in the ways of the Objective-C/Cocoa-fu. I guess it’s a good project to do while messing with the language/framework.

Anyway, I haven’t seen a Twitterific update in ages (Looks like it’s going to be about nine months), for one thing, which makes me feel like the people at Icon Factory aren’t really looking to beef this up (although they did release an iPhone version recently).

A few things I still don’t like about Twitterific:

• Growl issues: I have the Twitterific window selected, and yet it still growls at me. Why? This seems like a very easy issue to fix… and we’re inching into month NINE without an update to this bug. I’m certain this isn’t just me, because I’ve seen it on… at least 4 Macs. (The 4 macs I’m talking about are the one’s that I’ve owned this year… My name is Josh Kim, and I’m an Apple-holic. But that’s a whole other blog post.)

• Copying URLs and shortening them. I think we’re at the point where we assume that the feature for shortening URLs is built into the Twitter client of choice. I’ve used a couple in the past (Twhirl and TweetDeck come to mind…). There has to be a better UI for this type of action… maybe when I copy and paste a link, don’t count that as a part of the character limit, but have a second stage where you confirm your post.

• Actually, that second stage would be awesome in reducing spelling errors and silly things that happen with a trigger happy Twitterer like myself. Not only that and the url shortening, we’d be able to input data on location and images that we’d want to associate with the Tweet.

Okay, Mr. Idea-but-no-action-man… get to it. Sigh.

I thought… why not web applications? Heck, it’s got a browser built in.

I’m happier now that Jobs has come out and said it. Although, for some, this might seem like a copout solution. However, I’m happy that things are, once again, moving towards the web.

The only thing missing is somehow using the power of the multi-touch screen… That sucker seems locked down… Maybe somehow somebody somewhere could hack that.

And here comes the feeds about today’s Stevenote… ugh.

Oh my goodness, apple.com looks more lickable…

Oh, and go download the Safari Beta. Because… my love for Firefox is dwindling… and I’m trying to kill my dependence on interface add-ons. More on that, later.

Couple of cool commentaries

• iPhone SDK: It’s called Safari: 37signals.
• One More Browser: Shaun Inman.