by Alex Holt | May 10, 2013 | Projects |
Monitter.com is a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” twitter for a set of keywords in real-time, filtered by location. The original monitter website has changed and iterated a little in the past 3 years. It’s a little more advanced than it was to begin with. The monitter widget, offered for free is currently in use on over 1500 websites around the world and has been used for wall displays at numerous tech conferences over the years. Site Statistics: Live Since: August 2008 Daily Unique Visits: >2200 Mentions / Month: >750 Twitter Followers: >5000 Monitter in the Media: BBC Mashable CNET...
by Alex Holt | May 10, 2013 | Mobile, UI/UX |
Things I absolutely adore about the Sparrow interface: Facebook integration and gravatar make email more beautiful. I like pretty interfaces, they make me happy. Attachment interface is genius. What would make me super happy would be some way to attach files out of Dropbox or Crashplan (or even iCloud, i guess) – that would mean I could more or less operate completely on my phone. The recent recipients feature in composing mails is pure genius. The double stacked hidden sidebar is impressive, they’ve stacked a lot of info into a small space. Ditto the Inbox-Unread-Starred-Priority switching interface. The “more actions” bar at the bottom of the message screen is great. I like how it draws from the path fan, but makes it more direct, closer to my thumbs and cleaner. Not everything is peachy though, despite being the best iOS mail experience I’ve had to date (I’ve tried Mail, Gmail.app, Gmail web, Sent) Sparrow still has room to improve – and I’m not just talking about push notifications (Read about why it’s not their fault here: http://www.sparrowmailapp.com/push.php) Things I’d like to see Rich text support in signatures Despite Apple’s Mail.app (and other mobile Mail clients) opting to default your signature to a message telling people that you’re on your phone.. I very much prefer to NOT tell people. I want all my mail to look like it came from one device (let’s call it device agnostic mailing). Thus, I would like to be able to either a) copy my rich text signature or b) sync my signatures from Sparrow for Mac to my phone. Custom Signatures for aliases This could be me but I host mail for about 8 domains off my...
