And Alert Thingy takes the lead
I just updated to the newest version of Alert Thingy (1.3) that I found about from a post on TechCrunch when I got home just now and I gotta say this is getting much better. Not only have they added Twitter support to the point Twitter messages are displayed along side FriendFeed messages but they have also added Flickr support.
As well they look to have added a couple more themes to give you more choices beyond the typical Black and AIR color schemes. While they still don’t have an option for changing the font size; which was deal breaker for me in previous versions these new colors do make reading messages a little easier.
Now as much as I might like to use any 3rd party app for accessing FriendFeed it doesn’t fit in with my current work flow because I always have the FF page open in FeedDemon and I would end up bumping up against their API limits for getting new messages.
That said if I was to go strictly the client route my vote at this point would definitely be to use Alert Thingy. They have done a really good job on this release and other than the font pickiness on my part this version puts them in the front of the pack. Definitely worth downloading and using for both Twitter and FriendFeed.
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