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SpreadTweet hides your Twitter stream in a fake Excel window
Obviously, if your usage policy at work prohibits using Twitter, this program isn't going to be of any help. Log files will still show what you've been up to. However, if you simply want a less obvious interface so that the Looky Lous around your cubicle can't immediately tell what you're up to, check out SpreadTweet.
It's yet another Twitter client built on Adobe Air, but obviously there's a bit of a twist - it camouflages your stream as a Microsoft Excel workbook. Three skins are available to ensure it blends in on your system: 2003, 2007, and OSX.
No avatars are displayed. There's no TwitPic or URL shortening support. Everything is displayed in boring old plain text, so you'll have to copy and paste links you want to browse.
I'd never use this as an everyday client, but I did actually find it handy for one thing: locating users that incessantly flood my stream with retweets. It's easy to spot the RT @personwithoriginalthought in SpreadTweet's plain text columns.
One super-duper, ultra-critical note: by downloading the software, you "absolve [the developer] of any and all responsibility" and agree to bring him cookies and beer if he goes to jail.
It's yet another Twitter client built on Adobe Air, but obviously there's a bit of a twist - it camouflages your stream as a Microsoft Excel workbook. Three skins are available to ensure it blends in on your system: 2003, 2007, and OSX.
No avatars are displayed. There's no TwitPic or URL shortening support. Everything is displayed in boring old plain text, so you'll have to copy and paste links you want to browse.
I'd never use this as an everyday client, but I did actually find it handy for one thing: locating users that incessantly flood my stream with retweets. It's easy to spot the RT @personwithoriginalthought in SpreadTweet's plain text columns.
One super-duper, ultra-critical note: by downloading the software, you "absolve [the developer] of any and all responsibility" and agree to bring him cookies and beer if he goes to jail.
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsmereApr 15th 2009 5:15PM
uh where do u type in it?
mereApr 15th 2009 5:35PM
nm found it
rcarmApr 15th 2009 5:27PM
Is beer even allowed in jail?
Lee MathewsApr 15th 2009 5:28PM
Only if you can make it in the terlet.
WewtacoApr 15th 2009 8:33PM
whoa, this is genius.
JasonApr 15th 2009 8:49PM
just use Outwit
Reads twitter in outlook, looks like my work email.
http://www.techhit.com/OutTwit/
mikejonasApr 15th 2009 9:18PM
Can someone make Facexcel?
DavidApr 16th 2009 1:56AM
Really? They thought this would fool anyone? That Owtwit program sounds like a better candidate maybe, but this wouldn't get mistaken for a valid spreadsheet by anyone but the most idiotic of bosses...
TheHubApr 16th 2009 3:40AM
I wager Microsoft may have some issues with this. Ha HA
Harshit PurwarApr 16th 2009 11:02AM
Thanks for nice information