MoodBlast

You’ve discovered MoodBlast, yet more software to help you stay on top of your web life by simultaneously updating multiple chat clients and web services. MoodBlast is a standalone menubar app with a user-configurable system-wide hotkey that pops up an input window for your “blast”. The list of clients will probably continue to grow as APIs improve. I’m trying to avoid as much roundabout hacking as possible, making as much use as I can of available APIs. Therefore, MSN Messenger is currently off of my list, as is Pownce. We’ll see if either come around.

[Jump to download]

Update: 8/31/08 v3.2.2 fixes Adium 1.3 bug. All should be well in the universe, but I’m sure I’ll be told otherwise very soon. Versions 1.1 and 1.2 of Adium should still function just fine.

Update: 5/9/08 v3.2 is out. It’s Leopard-only, sorry Tiger.

Update: 3/8/08 v3.1 is out. It should fix almost all of the problems that plagued the 3.0.7 releases. Bug reports welcome.

Update: 3/1/08 3.0.7 changes the preferences storage system, if you have trouble, you may have to re-enter your prefs. Oh yeah, and we’ve got initial Pownce support.

Update: 12/26/07 3.0.4 switches to Tinyurl from Metamark. Sorry for the change (again), it seems tinyurl is the only reliable service available. Also, Pownce seems to be getting very close. In case you were waiting or something.

Update: 12/20/07 3.0 is out. This is a major revision. Don’t be frightened. See the changelog in the help file for more info. New docs and a screencast series are on the way.

Update: 10/31/07 Pownce has begun releasing a public API. As soon as it can update notes, support will be added!

Update: As of 2.49.8.2, I *think* we are simultaneously supporting old and new versions of Adium. Let me know if you have trouble. Also let me know if we have problems with Leopard, as I don’t get my copy until 10/30.

Update: MoodBlast now supports Applescript, with a simple command of “blast [string]”.

MoodBlast

MoodBlast 2.49.6MoodBlast is a full standalone Cocoa binary, with a built in help file. If you have any trouble, feel free to contact me. Installation is simply a matter of unzipping and dragging the MoodBlast.app file into your applications folder. When you run it, a menubar icon (a pill) will show up at the top of your screen, and all features are accessible from that icon’s dropdown menu. For more information, see the included help file.

Screencast

This screencast shows version 2.49 and is sorely out of date. A new screencast for version 3.0 will be available shortly.

You need Flash Player 8 or higher to view this movie

I’ve decided to keep MoodBlast donationware. It may turn into shareware at some point, but I keep records of all donors and those people, at any donation level, will get free licenses. And warm, fuzzy feelings.

FAQ

Facebook Issues
If you’ve successfully logged into Facebook before and find yourself unable to login after a crash or other incident, generally deleting the Facebook specific preference file will fix the problem. It’s located in your user preferences folder (/Users/yourusername/Preferences) and is called com.circlesix.MoodBlast_Facebook.plist. Erasing this file will not delete any of your other preferences. Quit MoodBlast, drag that file to the trash and relaunch MoodBlast. Go back to the passwords preference panel and try logging in again.

Download

Download: MoodBlast 3.2.2
If you’ve already installed 2.0 or higher, newer versions should be available from the “Check for updates” menu automatically.
Previous Version: MoodBlast 3.1.1 (Tiger Compatible)
Leave comments on the entry for the major release. Feel free to contact me directly with issues or requests. I do my best to respond, but life gets crazy sometimes. Feel free to try again and again. I will respond.


Add-ons

Thanks to a single Applescript command in MoodBlast, it’s possible to send a blast from any program that can trigger an Applescript. The command is “blast [string]” and the string can include any ^overrides, @keywords, !bangwords, #channels, Facebook Specialties, etc. Here are some I’ve been working on, let me know what you do with it!

MoodSwing is no longer under development.

» » » » » » » » » » » » »