I was amazed at the amount of positive feedback I got yesterday when Leo Laporte published the little twitlive.tv AIR application on his blog.
Decided to address some of the excellent suggestions that were coming in and spent another hour or so working on it before releasing this 1.5 build.
Here’s what has changed:
- The application has been renamed to “TWiT Live Desktop”
- Application icon is now vector and looks much better
- IRC channel is now supported
- Refresh button added to force reload the live stream
- Compact video mode plays the video in a smaller “always on top” window
In a next release I’ll be looking at the following features:
- Add support back in for minimizing, maximizing and resizing the application
- Icon to toggle the “always on top” setting on the main window
- Preferences panel to tell the app to launch in regular or compact mode at startup, save your timezone setting so the Google Calendar displays the schedule for your timezone etc.
- Notes feature to allow you to quickly write down a URL or something interesting you heard and save it out to a file.
Some of the other feature requests that came in have to do with how Stickam handles their embedded video and chat. I’d love to talk to them to see if there’s a way to make it work. If there is anyone from Stickam reading or you know anyone there feel free to send me an email.
For those wondering version 1.5 is about 40 lines of code at this point. I will be open sourcing the application at some point in time, probably in a release or two, and putting it up on Google Code.
Download and install here:
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Hey Peter. Thanks for this wonderfull AIR app, but could you please post the .air file link too appart from the online flash based install? it’s the only way right now we linux users can get and install AIR apps since the hooks to flash are not in place yet.
Thanks Lars, here is that direct link: http://leoville.com/wp-content/uploads/twitlive-air/TwitLive.air
Once you’ve downloaded the Linux AIR runtime alpha from labs.adobe.com you should just be able to double-click on that .air file. Think I’ll do a video on how to get it installed on Linux, have had quite a few questions about that.
Great application…
any way to have this save the stickam chat login info? that would be a nice feature to add also.
aaaaaand clickable links in the irc would be nice. stickam would be good to, but i’m guessing that is out of your control.
using TLD a lot today. still love it.
Your App is awesome! I used it for the iPhone 3g launch and it worked rather well.
Although there are a couple bugs like I am unable to add the Twitlive account as a friend through your app, this may be a bug and if so I hope its fixed next release.
Awesome app Peter! I blogged about it on my site as well. Thanks!
A minimize feature would be nice feature also, other wise a nice app.
Thanks
Sorry I should read the top of the page first. oops
Anyway I can make the calendar appear in English. I am working in Sweden these days and the calendar appears in Swedish.
The app works very nicely and is quite polished. :-D
A few suggestions in order of importance;
Ability to change the font sizes (real big ones too) and the font types in irc chat
Ability to size the main application window
Ability to size the width of the space betweeen the main chat window and the nick list
Ability to see the live blogging feature leo uses that has the live shownotes (he may no longer use this feature)
Sincerely, :-D
Klaba
Peter–
Thanks for your fine app. I browsed through the notes, and I did not see what I am going to suggest. When I first heard of Twit Live Desktop, I imagined a stand-alone view screen. I would like to see *just* the video as an always-on-top window with no chat or other Stickam clutter; this way, I could do other stuff with Leo playing in the corner. The video-only and always-on-top features could be menu or preference selections.
Thanks!
–Peter
so is this the final version of this app? have you passed the reins on to someone else??
???
Peter, great job on the application … I just love that I can watch Leo without Flash revving my MacBook fan every time …
Is it easy to translate the broadcast system to AIR as well?
Can you add http://army.twit.tv to the twit live desktop app
thanks
Thanks for the cool air app.
This app doesnt display well on my umpc…. could we make it fit into a 1024×600 window?
Thanks for this wonderful app! I also second the request to please add http://army.twit.tv/ in another tab.
Best regards
I like the improvements to the app.
After my Leopard Mac asked me to upgrade to Adobe AIR 1.5, I can no longer run the TWiT Live Desktop application… Is there something with AIR 1.5 that is not compatible with this applet?
I’m having the same issue. I tried it after a reboot and un-installed & re-installed the application with no luck. It opens but the video doesn’t run. Clicking on the other tabs cause the application to crash.
@Darren
I don’t know what else you want it to do……it does a simple job and does it well.
@patrick sweeney
i would like to see the following be added
1 Add a tab for http://army.twit.tv
2 Add support back in for minimizing, maximizing and resizing the application
My Twit Live Desktop is no longer working after I updated to the latest version of adobe’s Air. I dont know if this is a Mac thing. But the moment I d/l ed the update it stoped working
Thanks for the feedback everyone, I’ve been busy for the last few months but am getting ready to work on an update for the TWiT Live Desktop. Feature requests are very welcome.
I’m looking into the AIR 1.5 issue, surprisingly running the latest version myself without any issues. If you are not seeing the video, please also check there’s no problem seeing it on twitlive.tv so we can rule out a stickam problem.
Would appreciate if you post all your feature requests here so its easier to follow up and have people vote on it:
http://twitlivedesktop.uservoice.com/
Would you like a crash report. I just tried it again, still not working. The video runs on my PC fine & others seem to have updated Macs without trouble.
Ok I get this message
This application requires a version of Adobe Air which is no longer supported. Please contact the application Author for an updated version.
I am using an IMac with all the latest updates.
I am having the same issue with the recently updated Adobe Air and the Twit Live Desktop app on a mac, same symptoms.
Same here : latest AIR update broke TWIT Live…