MBPurple 0.2.1 for PortableApps

New Microblog-Purple for Pidgin 2.5 PortableApps, where you can store your Pidgin on thumbdrive and bring it wherever you go, is released! Download it here

Thanks to rottnkorpse for very quick help!

Adium port for MBPurple released!

Thanks for @jsippel for your hard work. Now the first release of Adium port for #mbpurple is here (base on 0.2.1). Enjoy!

MBPurple 0.2.1 released!

It's about 3 months from the last release. This release contains both major & minor bug fixes and some enhancement, mainly to Twitgin. Please proceed to download the latest release here

Don't forget to enable Twitgin in Tools->Plugin This version contain major bug fixes and some improvements

• Twitter, Identica, and Laconica now serve mainly as protocol only plug-in. You need to enable Twitgin in order to get old fancy output in conversation windows
• Fix SSL connection bug that may crash Pidgin when connection is unstable
• Clicking reply link now add in_reply_to_id http parameter (make the message appear sa "reply to message" in web-site)
• Remove "twitter.com" label. Now conversation showed as if coming from each individual user
• Add * (Favorite) and RT (Retweet) link for easy favorite and retweet (thanks to @nopparat)
• Move "Enable reply link" preference to Twitgin "Configure plug-in".

We are also working on Adium port of MBPurple. Hopefully this will be released very soon!

MBPurple 0.2.0 is released

For almost 3 months of development, now Microblog-purple version 0.2.0 is released, with some more features. This is also a major code restructuring to allow more services on MBPurple.

• Beta support for Identi.ca and Laconica, as separated plug-ins.
• A bit of improvement in message display
• Improve Twitgin support, no self-generated message also being renice
• Support for 2 commands, right now it only works for Twitter.
• /replies - get replies timeline
• /refresh - get new tweets immediately
• /tag, /btag, /untag - automatically tag all your message, good for tagging messages with some hash tag (Example: #election2008).
• Lots more configurable options in Plug-in.

Note that, this new version is INCOMPATIBLE with older version, so you will need to remove and re-add the plug-in to get all new features. You will be prompted a warning message if you still using the old plug-in.
All users are recommended to upgrade. Proceed to MBPurple and download the 0.2.0 now. Instruction for Ubuntu (8.10.1 interpid ibek) is here. Thanks to @sugree for ppa package!

Microblog-Purple 0.1.2

Last week I create 2 releases of #mbpurple (Microblog-purple), a plug-in for Pidgin that make you communicate with Microblog like twitter.com. Latest release is 0.1.2. These releases fix lots of bug that occurred when there's something wrong with network connection, which may crash Pidgin. At least for me it's very stable now. Also, a potential memory leak has been fixed too.

Download it at Microblog-Purple project page.

Microblog-Purple 0.1

It's beginning on Thursday 2 weeks earlier. I start feeling irritate more and more with my Google Twitter Gadget. The update failed silently, bugs in GUI that made lots of empty space between each tweet, and I have to re-login every time I turn on my laptop. And well, I'm more used to the way twitter communicate with my IM. Having it only on desktop gadget made me miss a lot of tweets.

So I decided to do something. And here it is. Microblog-purple project is a Pidgin plug-in that make your Pidgin or any LibPurple-base client, like Finch (tested) or Adium (hopefully it'll works. Waiting for @markpeak), communicate with twitter.com directly. I spent last two weeks coding this during my free time, with the help of my friends. The very first alpha came out last week (in SVN), and now I think it's stable enough to have the official release (0.1).

Please see the download page to download the plug-in for your platform. Right now we have Windows and Ubuntu (32|64)bit. Many thanks to

• @sugree - features, bug fixes, Windows installer, and Ubuntu port
• @chanwit - nice patch for text formatting. make my life much easier.