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 [...]
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 [...]
Yes, finally! We are *very* happy to announce that a new version of Twitterfountain is coming, and it is coming real soon.
Over the last year we have seen the use of Twitterfountain rise, with installments on thousands of websites all over the world. And all that time, you have told us what you would like [...]
Update (saturday nov 7th, 14.00): Twitterfountains work properly once more. Happy Fountains!
Lately, we get some concerned emails regarding failing Twitterfountains. The fountain says “Twitter search failed. Please refresh the page.”. Unfortunately, there is nothing we at Twitterfountain can do about that right now.
The root of the error has to do with a so-called crossdomain.xml file [...]
Recently we’ve been working on updating the Twitterfountain. We’re looking for ways to make the application cleaner and at the same time provide more options to customize its look and animations.
To summarize the updates we’ve done so far:
a cleaner look and feel of the whole application
a less intrusive title bar
a cleaner ’settings’ panel, with tabs [...]