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I was chatting with a friend of mine on Twitter<\/a> - through Twitterrific<\/a> and he mentioned that he had gone into the NIB for Twitterrific<\/a> and removed the tooltips for the mouse-overs of the name and the image. This makes the UI a lot cleaner as it already says who it is and it already says when it came in - so it's all redundant, and if you have the mouse over the window you're almost guaranteed<\/em> to have a tooltip pop-up. So he cleared it out. I don't blame him, but I thought it'd be nicer to let the developers know what we wanted, and maybe they could fit in an option on the tooltips. Worth a try.<\/p>\n So I emailed them and got a reply back that was not surprising, but a touch disappointing. They are focused on the iPhone version, and when that's released in June they'll go back to the Mac version and they plan a significant upgrade to the UI.<\/p>\n So it's going to get addressed, but it's not going to be ready until the Fall. Which in itself is an interesting statement on the speed of their development - or at least the time they can devote to it. Then again, maybe they have significant<\/em><\/strong> changes in store and a little option would only take a few days (tops), but totally re-coding the app might take months. Hard to see, but it's possible.<\/p>\n In any case, if I want to strip out the tooltips, I'm going to have to fire up InterfaceBuilder and hack at it. Not sure that's what I want to do, but it's something to think about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was chatting with a friend of mine on Twitter – through Twitterrific and he mentioned that he had gone into the NIB for Twitterrific and removed the tooltips for the mouse-overs of the name and the image. This makes the UI a lot cleaner as it already says who it is and it already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else","category-open-source-software","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}