First look: Echofon for Mac beta version

Echofon (formerly TwitterFon) has been a selection for many iPhone users for tweeting on the go. naan studio, the developers behindhand Echofon for iPhone and Firefox, hit brought Echofon to the Mac with a newly-launched beta version.

Like Tweetie (which launched for iPhone and was later liberated for Mac) and another Twitter apps for Mac like Twitterrific and TweetDeck that started on the desktop, Echofon intends to wage dripless combining with Twitter. Echofon is also aiming at integrating their newborn Mac offering with Echofon for iPhone.

Read on to wager what Echofon for Mac offers...

Interface:

At the top of the window, there's a tab for pass tweets, replies, candid messages, and search results. In your timeline, mentions of your username and replies from another Twitter users are highlighted in green. Tweets are dispatched by typewriting in the box at the bottom of the main pane and then pressing return on your keyboard. You crapper also highlight some catchword in your timeline by environment the articulate to be highlighted in the Echofon preferences.

Need to countenance up a user? This is finished by clicking on their username or avatar, or by selecting to Twitter > Go to User from the schedule bar (Command-U). Once this is completed, a artist appears on the right side of the pane displaying the user's info and tweets.

Echofon offers asking on newborn tweets with a badge on the cut picture or through Growl. If you're a fan of the iChat "bubble interface" for threaded conversations, Echofon crapper pass tweets in a kindred info for replies and candid messages.

Features:

The newborn Twitter "retweet" function is supported in Echofon for Mac. Want to wager what aggregation you've dispatched discover fresh that's been retweeted? You crapper wager the retweets in your timeline scarred with the newborn characteristic icon. To retweet something, you crapper just control-click or right-click it and then select Retweet. Tweets crapper also be deleted permanently from Echofon.

Other features exclusive Echofon allow viewing your individual information, who you're following, and who's mass you. However, the information doesn't currently substance hold for Twitter lists. Echofon also offers hold for multiple accounts, allowing you to select the statement you poverty to use. There are also adjustable settings for the change instance (from 1 instance to 20 minutes) and the font size (from 10 pt to 20 pt).

To sound a photo, just inspire it onto the Echofon window, or add an image by selecting Twitter > Add Image from the schedule (Command-I). At the inform time, Echofon doesn't substance panoramic hold for another services such as TwitVid for uploading videos.

Integration:

The field thing that sets apart Echofon from another Twitter clients for the Mac and iPhone is the ability to sync the status of unread tweets, replies, and candid messages. You'll requirement to ingest Echofon Pro [US$4.99, iTunes Link] to sync with Echofon for Mac.

Thoughts:

If you ever poverty to stay on top of what's up on Twitter, Echofon for Mac provides a rattling pleasant way to do so. The combining with Echofon on the iPhone is what sets it apart from the another Mac Twitter applications, but there's another apps for Mac like Tweetie that are also very nice.

Currently, the beta edition is acquirable for free, and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later.