Archive for "Apr 2010"

22.Apr.2010 New animation style

While working on the recent addition of japanese fonts, I found some time to experiment with new animation styles for the Twitterfountain.

The new animation style uses a 3D effect to display 1 twitter message at a time.

To select the animation, choose ’swing’ from the message animation settings.

The new animation is still in Beta, like [...]

21.Apr.2010 Try out the new japanese font support

We’ve had many requests for including japanese characters in the Twitterfountain animations. The reason this feature wasn’t included from the start is that the twitterfountain animation cannot use system fonts (for example, a Japanese font on the computer of a Japanese user). System fonts simply don’t look very good when used in animation!
We’ve finally come [...]

13.Apr.2010 Build your own Twitterfountain using just an URL

For all of you out there that want things quicker and easier, this might help you out!
Our resident hackers have come up with a way to quickly build a Twitterfountain without having to visit the Twitterfountain-site and going through all the settings! Simply type in the url http://twitterfountain.com/custom/yourkeyword and replace yourkeyword with the hashtag or [...]