Quickly Post Twitter Update

I hate the tiny "post" button on the official Twitter app for Android, and every other Twitter client in the Android market. They force you to stretch your thumb up there and try to land your finger right over that tiny square.

Besides, when I want to post an update, I rather don't be distracted by the tweets in my timeline. So I hate that most Twitter clients for Ancroid display the timeline by default upon launching them.

Looking for a direct way to post Twitter updates from Android I've found that Quick Post by Hedami is the best solution, but it's not free. I would gladly buy it if I had a credit card or Paypal payments are available in my country but that's not the case.

So, finally I found a free solution, ideal for posting text only updates with no thumb stretching required. Just send this link to your email inbox, open it in the default Android web browser, bookmark it, and then add a shortcut to that bookmark in your home screen. Check the option to always open it with the default browser if you want it to open faster.

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through the looking glass

through the looking glass, a gallery by bunnyfrogs on Flickr.

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Google Plus Bookmarklet 2.0

So far, there is only one way to publish an update to your Google+ account from anywhere in the web, that is using an unofficial bookmarklet, a bookmark that instead of launching a web address, performs locally a short code written in javascript that, in this case, opens a small and minimalistic pop-up window from where you can post an update and configure its privacy and location.

I've been using this bookmarklet for some weeks and really enjoy how fast it loads and works, unlike Twitter's official bookmarklet, which take ages to load.

A couple days ago, I noted that this bookmarklet for Google+ started to return an error message everytime I hit the publish button, instead of opening my public timeline, although the update was actually published succesfully. I don't like error messages poping up on me everyday, so I checked the links in Google+ mobile page and came up with a revised code for the bookmarklet.

And here it is, grab this Google+ bookmarklet 2.0 to your Firefox bookmarks toolbar, or right click on the link and add it to your Internet Explorer favorites. See you on Google+. Continua...