
The Basic Idea
MoodBlast is an application to simplify your online life. As much as we'd all love to not repeat ourselves constantly, it turns out that a lot of times we have pretty much the same thing to say to everybody. MoodBlast simultaneously updates your chat clients' mood messages (Adium, Skype and iChat), and sends your "mood" to online services (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, and Facebook). It also has special features for setting your status in your chat clients and can even insert variables like the time in 15 minutes or the weather in any location in the world.
Your First Run |
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When you first open MoodBlast, you need to set some preferences. If the MoodBlast panel isn't open, click the pill in the menubar and choose "Open MoodBlast". Once you can see the panel, click on the "Prefs" button on the right. You'll want to set a global hotkey, something that won't interfere with your other commonly used key combinations. You'll also want to enter usernames, passwords and API keys for any services you plan to update. You can adjust the formatting of some of MoodBlast's features in the "Strings" panel, and the "General" panel offers some options for automatic updating. You can return to the prefs panel any time by opening MoodBlast and pressing "Prefs" or hitting ⌘-, (Command-comma). Pressing your hotkey while the panel is open will hide it. |
Basic Usage |
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Once you've set a hotkey, you can use it any time that MoodBlast is running to open the panel. The entry box will be focused and you can start typing your text right away. You can select services with the mouse, or you can hit tab to switch focus from the entry field and then use the first letter of each service to toggle it. For example, after typing your mood and pressing tab, typing "f" will toggle Facebook submission on and off. Pressing ↩ at any time will send your string to the selected services. |
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You can test a string out by typing ⌘T. This will open a drawer to show you the output before you send it to any chat clients or services. If you edit the text in the panel, pressing enter will send it back to the blast window with your changes. Any @keywords or ^overrides will be preserved. |