Friday, 28 August 2009

pbtweet on Snow Leopard

Today, 64bit user-land Snow Leopard launches on your Mac and some input-method hacking software was inhibited.
Some, including me, use pbtweet on Safari with GreeaseKit on SIMBL may be disappointed with pbtweet does not run automatically.There is some workaround.
  1. using bookmarklet with shortcut key
  2. 32bit-mode Safari
  3. using pbtweet on Chrome (Chromium)

Using bookmarklet with shortcut key

Place pbtweet bookmarklet on left end of bookmark bar. You can run pbtweeet with pressing ⌘+1 on twitter.com.

32bit Safari

Check "Open in 32-bit mode" for Safari.app from Get Info on Finder.app.
After check, SIMBL works and pbtweet will run automatically on twitter.web.

Using Chrome/Chromium

pbtweet runs on Chrome also and this cool WebKit browser supports userscript feature inside.
on Terminal.app, launch Chrome with "--enable-user-scripts" like following command.
/Applications/Chromium.app/Contents/MacOS/Chromium --enable-user-scripts

After launch Chrome, you'll find "User Script" folder on Library/Application Support/Chrome/Defaults/User Scripts/".
Place downloaded pbtweet_stable.user.js at User Scripts folder and launch Chromium again with --enable-user-scripts.
pbtweet will run automatically.

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