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"Mike Rundle is a familiar name in the design community, having co-founded the blog network 9rules and designed many truly gorgeous blogs and websites.  Today Mike weighed in on the desktop Twitter app game, with a pre-release of his new Twitter client for the Mac, Beak.\nNormally a pre-release is code for \"ugly and a bit broken\", but Beak is simplistically pretty...if lacking in differentiating features.  Unlike TweetDeck, Beak sticks to a single column of updates for each section: Tweets, Mentions, Messages, Faves, Search and - a new one - Stats.  Statistics are there because Beak - like Bit.ly and other URL shorteners - offers to condense URLs and track clicks within the app.  Tweets in the stream can be retweeted, replied to or favorited.\nThere's not much emphasis on actually posting Tweets, however: perhaps to save room in the interface, the posting box requires a click to open it up.\nThe bottom line: Beak is feature-light but still more refined than you might expect from a pre-release.  Those looking for a no-frills Twitter client for Mac should at least take a few minutes to try it out.  Even so, Tweetie for Mac remains a more fully-featured Twitter app on the Mac, and will likely take the lead among Mac fans.\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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