What's it all about, Alfie?

I've had quite a few troubles with Twitterrific and the official Twitter client with the GPU switching from integrated to discrete and back again. In both cases, the apps appear to be working on the GPU that they started on, but if you 'hide' them (both have this feature) and then switch the GPU - for example, go from battery to power adapter, and try to un-hide the apps, they won't function. This has been ongoing for a long time with both apps. I like both, but this one feature means that I have had to stick with one GPU - regardless of the battery/power adapter setting, and leave it there if I want to make sure things are going to work.

Not horrible, but I've been hoping with each update of each of these apps that the bug will get fixed. I've sent bug report after bug report to both teams, and they either can't reproduce something that's superlatively easy for me to reproduce, or they aren't working on it. Sad.

So when Daniel J. tweeted that he was trying Hibari as a new Twitter client, I gave it a look. The big difference here is that Hibari is being actively developed, and that's something that does not seem to be the case for either of the other two I really liked. First, I was glad to see the style. It's clean, nice, solid, and shows thumbnails of the inline images. Very nice so far.

Then I realized it can hide/unhide nicely. Even better. Then I did the GPU-switch test and it passed with flying colors. OK, time to pay my $10, it's passed everything I wanted in a Twitter client. And it's still being developed!

I then saw that Gus M. of JSTalk fame was using JSTalk to tweet in Hibari. Even better. Auto-updates, I'm hoping are with Sparkle, but we'll have to see, and I'm smiling. Not bad at all.

I'm going to give it a while. See how it goes. I'm glad I can now let my GPUs switch and take advantage of the better GPU when I'm plugged into the wall, but fall back to the internal GPU when it's on battery, and I don't have to worry about my Twitter client.

Oh… and it's got great Growl integration. Can't beat that!

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