In the future Twitter will support OAuth authentication and luckily there is also xAuth support too which is simplified version of OAuth. xAuth works great for non-desktop apps like Twim. I just implemented xAuth support to Twim.

When you post a new status from Twim you’ll see that the status was posted from TwimGo app. This is because there was already another app register with Twim name. I might do a MeeGo version of the app so then the new name matches the platform well :)

This version also has support for Twitter Lists.

You can download the latest version of Twim from these links:

• Twim page or directly from
• http://bit.ly/twim-jar
• http://bit.ly/twim-jad

New version also includes small themes feature so you can select from three themes: Default, Gray and Night. Gray theme is more traditional list style view to your Twitter feeds as shown here:

Download new version from here or use these shortcuts:

• http://bit.ly/twim-jar
• http://bit.ly/twim-jad

The API is really easy to use. All you need to do is to pass three parameters to the API call:

1. Version, v=1.0
2. Translated text, q=Hei maailma!
3. Language pair (if source is empty then language is automatically identified), langpair=|en

In the end you end up with the following URL:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&langpair=|en&q=Hei+maailma!

And if you click the link you’ll see that it returns the translated text in JSON format which is pretty easy to parse.

{ "responseData": {
"translatedText":"Hello world!",
"detectedSourceLanguage":"fi" },
"responseDetails": null,
"responseStatus": 200}

This made it pretty easy to integrate the API call to Twim. So now in Twim 1.6 you can select a tweet from status list and select “Translate to English” from status menu and Twim will display the translation to you in seconds. Pretty handy if you are following people from other countries in Twitter. Go ahead and download the latest Twim to your mobile phone from here.

…and by the way, new feature also has the “paging” feature for home screen and search results as a bonus! Happy Twittering!

LWUIT supports such nice things like theming, transitions and animation. It also includes new UI components like TabbedPane and Dialogs.

I just got a new book to review, LWUIT 1.1 for Java ME Developers, written by Biswajit Sarkar. If you think that LWUIT could scratch your itch then I’d recommend on having this book on your desk as it works pretty nicely as a reference as well as good introduction to the whole library.

Book contains lots of emulator screenshots which help to understand the concepts very well. This combined with lots of sample code makes it really easy to learn all features of LWUIT library. Only one oddity is that it’s referencing to Sprint SDK where it could as well be the Sun’s original WTK but that doesn’t really have any affect on code samples.

Book’s first chapter is a good introduction to the library. The following chapters explain the default components and then there is one chapter on how to create a custom component. Last chapters dig into resources, LWUIT designer, themes, animations and transitions, painters, effects and logging. The index is also very complete which makes the book work well as a good resource in the bookshelf even after the first reading.

Check out the publisher site for more information about the book.

This version fixes the issues with the export and import. Now you can export data to CSV file correctly and you can import that file either to root folder or to the folder that is currently selected.

This version also improves the startup time significantly. Application is ready to use in about three seconds after the launch on my Nokia E71.

Have fun while Getting Things Done with the Mobile Task Manager! :)

I also added few options that you can configure via settings view. You can set Twim to automatically load the home screen tweets when application is started and you can also turn on the auto-refresh option that will automatically load new tweets in every 5 minutes. If new tweets are found then phone vibrates and plays a small beep sound. With this feature you won’t miss a single tweet again :)

New settings view

Full release notes:

• TwitrPix support
• Cancel option to media menu
• Initial auto-refresh option with alarming of new tweets
• Option to automatically load tweets on startup
• Tab names changed: “Recent”>”Home”, “Friends”>”Following”
• Fix for non-latin characters when posting photos (thanks Lexa!)

Have fun with the new Twim and download it from here. If you like the source code you can see that in here. Twim is still free as a free beer.

In case you didn’t know: Twim is a mobile Twitter client. I’m twittering with username @tlaukkanen.

New 1.14 also includes other new features like Search, Twitvid, and Follow/Unfollow support. There are also minor improvements like now you will only have to answer to less security popups when uploading files since now it is only using READ mode instead of READ/WRITE that popped up tons of popups on my E71.

Go ahead and download the latest binaries from here and start Twittering! Let me know how the touchscreen support feels like on a real device since I can’t test it myself :)

Twim v1.14

Search feature - GIF animation

Splash screen of the new GTD application.

I like to get things done. For years I’ve followed my own action management methods but recently I’m leaning towards the David Allen‘s GTD method which he describes in his book Gettings Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. I have used many tools to store the actions like traditional pen and paper and several desktop apps, like MiniTask and Evernote. I haven’t found any decent (and simple) mobile apps to do the same. I have used the Groceries app for this purpose but it was lacking in some areas of usability. This was the reason I created the Mobile Task Manager application.

I got good feature ideas from Jorge Ledesma who is a blogger at NokiaMobileTalk.com. The current set of features include:

• Create actions
• Edit actions (with 3 key)
  
• Mark action as done (with fire key)
• Purge done items
  
• Create folders
  
• You can add notes to actions (with 9 key)
  
• You can rearrange the actions (with left/right keys)
• Mark action as favorite (with 7 key)
• Backup actions to CSV file
  

Check out the software page for additional screenshots and download links.

You can download latest version from Twim page, here.

What would you like to see in the next version of Twim? Vote your favourite feature here: