Jabber Twitter Bridge

posted by cba in April 4th, 2008

A java application which :

check your Jabber or google talk (gtalk) status and update your Twitter status if there is a new one.

check your twitter status and update your Jabber or google talk status.

check yours meetings in google calendar and send a Tweets like this : in a meeting until 15h or free until 15h,

update your Jabber or google talk status, telling if you are or not in meeting

Installation

JabberTwitterBride must be installed by processing these Steps :

To install this application you must download it here : JabberTwitterBridge 0.3
Unzip the zipped file where you want
Double click on run.bat

How it is a working

JabberTwitterBridge, it is : Google Talk to Twitter, Google Calendar to Twitter, Google Calendar to Google Talk and Twitter to Google Talk.

JabberTwitterBridge is keeping your password into a file. To add a little security level, these passwords are encoded. And to encoded this password, application need a master password.

So at each time you will run the application you will be asked for your master password.

On first run, application will ask you for the master password and then ask you to fill the preferences value.
Otherwise you got 3 tries to enter the correct master password, in case you failed then preferences will be erase. So if you forgot your password, then just try 3 times an incorrect one and then filled the preferences again (PS : the last master password enter is the right one)

After that application will be in the system tray. You can access to preferences by using mouse right button on it. It is the way also for stopping the application.

The preferences looks like that :