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Skip to content TheQube — an accessible social networking client TheQube is an accessible social networking client written mainly for the blind and visually impaired users. TheQube 0.9.1 is Out This is a hotfix addressing one bug introduced in 0.9 and one small but longstanding issue from before. Changes in this version: -Fixed: Direct messages, sent items and tweets in individual timelines are now read correctly. More than that, you haven’t to clear the buffers anymore. But please note, if you see ellipses and links to /i/web/status , you will need to clear that particular buffer to read full tweets. -Fixed: When you try to get relationship between yourself and yourself or between the same user, a proper error message will be issued. Download TheQube 0.9.1 installer from Github Posted by Menelion Elensúlë November 16th, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment on TheQube 0.9.1 is Out TheQube 0.9 is Out It is a release introducing support for 280 characters in tweets and 50 characters in names. Note! As Twitter changed their way to get tweet text, you have to clear all of your buffers and then re-check for update. To do this, first press Ctrl+Shift+Windows+Delete , then answer Yes, and then press Ctrl+Alt+Windows+U to re-populate the updates. Changes in this version include: +New: Added support for 280-character tweets and 50-character names ( #67 ). *Changed: More changes for better Windows 10 compatibility: To send a new direct message, press Ctrl+Alt+Win+D ; To move between sessions, press Alt+Win+Shift+Right and Left arrows . Download TheQube 0.9 multilingual installer from Github Posted by Menelion Elensúlë November 12th, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized Leave a comment on TheQube 0.9 is Out TheQube 0.8 is out Hi everyone, At last, TheQube 0.8 is here for you to play with! Changes +New: Added support for long direct messages (up to 10000 characters). +New: Added support for quoted tweets. To quote a tweet, press Ctrl+Shift+Win+Q . If you read a tweet with quote in it, the quoted tweet will be prepended by QT (analogously to RT for retweets). Thanks to Manuel Cortéz for his great help! +New: Added the ux.nu URL shortening service. +Added: Added support for new Audioboom post URLs. *Changed: improved the Twitter credentials storing technology. *Changed: Several hotkeys changed for Windows 10 compatibility: Moving by items in buffer changed to Alt+Win+Up and Down arrows; Moving to next and previous buffer changed to Alt+Win+Right and Left arrows; New direct message dialog is invoked by Alt+Win+D ; If you use SAPI 5, stop speech by Alt+Win+S ; Close TheQube using Ctrl+Alt+Win+F4 ; Interact with a URL by pressing Ctrl+Win+Alt+Enter. *Changed: Favorites and everything related to them renamed to likes as requested by Twitter. *Changed: The documentation is converted to manually written HTML 5 with WAI-ARIA mark-up. Enjoy moving not only by headings, but also by regions! Please note: this is still work in progress. If you want to help making docs better, please send pull-requests on our Github. Bugfixes #49: To authorize the second session, TheQube has to be restarted . Thanks to Manuel Cortéz for this lovely fix! #56: If a user follows, unfollows or blocks someone, TheQube doesn’t check for repeating actions” . #48: Line breaks ignored when viewing a tweet . #25: Cannot insert a line break if sending tweets on Enter is enabled . #16: Errors when shutting down Windows . #62: Unable to get remaining API calls count . Thanks for this fix go to Craig Brett. -Fixed: Google translation is back again. -Fixed: Errors in Brazilian Portuguese translation preventing TheQube from working normally. Download TheQube 0.8 Get TheQube 0.8 Posted by Menelion Elensúlë September 21st, 2017 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment on TheQube 0.8 is out TheQube 0.8 alpha1 is out As you already know, TheQube was suspended from written actions by Twitter, then brought to life, and then suspended again. Of course I do all my best to restore TheQube’s functionality as it was before. But since Twitter people do not hurry to answer my requests, I decided to issue a temporary patch. Please see the changes to TheQube code in the changelog, and now I have a couple more things to say. Acknowledgements As this is a temporary patch dealing with Twitter credentials storage and such things, you have to reauthorize after installing this version. This release invalidates all previous TheQube releases authorization: this is preproduction version, you have been warned and should be aware of such things. After things come back and stable, probably you might want to reauthorize again. Now I can’t say exactly whether it will be necessary or not. Although this is not my fault in any way, I ask you to excuse me for any inconvenience this brought or will bring you. Download TheQube 0.8 alpha1 Full multilingual installer Posted by Menelion Elensúlë June 14th, 2015 Posted in TheQube Releases 11 Comments on TheQube 0.8 alpha1 is out We’re back Fortunately, Twitter has removed the restriction to post for TheQube users. They said that some activity issued from TheQube was reported as spam. Some of you already ask me: will this repeat in the future? My answer yes: this is possible. Because I, being TheQube’s main developer, am not in any way responsible for all content posted by TheQube users (which is actually kind of ridiculous to suppose). So let’s hope this won’t repeat… at least too soon :). Posted by Menelion Elensúlë June 12th, 2015 Posted in TheQube News 3 Comments on We’re back TheQube is suspended from writing by Twitter Hello everyone, today Twitter for some reason suspended TheQube from performing any writing actions (sending tweets, DMs, mentions, retweets, following users, etc.). the reason of this decision is completely unknown to me. The source code has not been change since version 0.7.1, and I’ve already notified Twitter about it. If anyone could help in any way, please feel free to comment this post. Thank you. Posted by Menelion Elensúlë June 12th, 2015 Posted in TheQube News Leave a comment on TheQube is suspended from writing by Twitter TheQube 0.7.1 is out This is a maintenance release aimed to fix several longstanding bugs. Known issue: readme is not properly formatted, it is a work in progress. Changes and fixes New: added the qps.ru URL shortening service. Fixed: Temporarily removed non-working URL shortening services, namely onj.me and xed.cc as they require a CAPTCHA now. Fixed: #29: Log files grow to insane sizes . For now the maximum filesize is set to 100 kb. Fixed: Posting audio is back. Fixed: Pressing Enter doesn’t add a new line on sending a tweet. Download TheQube 0.7.1 Full multilingual installer: TheQube 0.7.1 executable All feedback and comments are always welcome. Posted by Menelion Elensúlë March 10th, 2015 March 10th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment on TheQube 0.7.1 is out TheQube 0.7 is out! At last and finally TheQube 0.7 is out! Please note that it’s still a preproduction release so there might be errors and issues that will be fixed in upcoming versions. Changes in this version Now the application is called TheQube (without a space) and versioned according to usually adopted system major.minor.patch . And, until the first stable version is released, the first digit will be zero, so this version is 0.7. The Speech and Braille tabs in the global TheQube configuration are consolidated into one tab since the Braille tab contained only one check box. The tweets translation service is back ( #27 ) Audio links from rebranded AudioBoom are supported. Now TheQube has a permanent multilingual website Now Ctrl+BackSpace works in new message dialogs, allowing to delete previous word. Now the website address in the profile info dialog won’t be shortened with t.co. Now the profile info dialog shows also the number of users that added the current user to their lists. The doc folder is removed from sources as it doesn’t contain any meaningful guidelines for TheQube develo...