Mac Habbo Client! [alpha version]

[timi]

Hai everyone! This may seem kind of awkward to post, but I thought I'd share.
I'm Timi a Mac software developer who makes cool apps, and plays Habbo (H)
I've worked on MacHeist (http://macheist.com), and cool stuffs of the sort.

I was getting tired of Habbo in a browser window, so I went and made a fullscreen client for Mac. The idea started in a different direction, originally intended to read your personal RSS feeds (http://www.habbo.com/profile?tab=5) that Habbo offers so you can see which of your friends are online. While it hasn't reached that point yet, the fullscreen part of the client is complete!

I wanted to share the alpha release with you, get feedback, and fix bugs! I hope I've provided enough background of myself so you can trust me. For safety you cannot log in via the app, you must log in with Safari (the two share cookies). Please try out the app, I'd really like for someone to find a bug I've missed! Feel free to ask me questions here, or via email (my email is in the About box of the app).

If you're unsure about the app, do not use it. It will never ask for your password. I encourage you to learn about me if you feel insecure about using my software.
Twitter: @timi (http://twitter.com/timi)
My website (where the software will be published later):http://timi.me
My software: http://theapplegeek.com

Friends - v 0.1 (build 332)
Info (http://timi.me/friends) | Download (http://timi.me/friends/fr332.zip)

[Jordy]

Generally Habbo Client apps have always failed, mainly due to a lack of trust among younger people and the commonplace virus's in the Habbo community but I do like the idea of your application. I can't say I've ever heard of anything also offering the RSS Feeds and of course because it's on Mac there's pretty much no chance of it being dodgy. In addition to this you've spelt out clearly how you login through Safari instead :)

Seems an innovative take on a Habbo client, best of luck with it!

[timi]

Today I worked on the friends loading part of the app. Once successfully working it seems to destroy the ability for Friends.app and Safari to share cookies appropriately. I have no clue what's going on, or why it's broken like this; but I may have to take out the force login from Safari portion.

I'm curious how many people would not trust logging in via the app.

Also, does anybody know if there's a way to automatically log in with the Habbo Key? That would make this whole login issues a bunch easier. The app requires your Habbo Key to load your Friends RSS feed anyway, if there is some kind of way to log in to the client with the key the whole login step can be skipped.

[AgnesIO]

To help you out on your last post, I would never consider logging in to something like habbo on a third party app :)

[timi]

This is what the currently under development build looks like:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10504478/fra.png

-- Force Update -- is for development only. When ready it will automatically update every minute.

I'm really trying to make a great app for everyone :)
What are some things I could do to increase the trust between my users and I?

[Trinity]

This is what the currently under development build looks like:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10504478/fra.png

-- Force Update -- is for development only. When ready it will automatically update every minute.

I'm really trying to make a great app for everyone :)
What are some things I could do to increase the trust between my users and I?

I think I'd trust it more if it was open source so I could be completely sure that nothing dodgy was going on behind the scenes.

[Swinkid]

Make the book black n' white to suit the apple theme, don't have a mac myself, i may hackin' tosh but yeah just sayin'

[timi]

I know the build expired on the 15th, but the new one doesn't have the login-saftey thing because of the issues I'm having.
Due to the response I got from you all, I won't be posting the latest build yet.

It's still being worked on; but if you would like a copy feel free to PM me or something.