Getting Started
A Friendfeed login is no longer required. Simply choose which service you want to use on feedalizr and see what your friends are sharing, uploading, linking to, posting and commenting about on the web right to your desktop. You just need to add your user details for each service you want to use.
You can choose to let us remember your details for you, by clicking on save. This means that you don’t need to re-enter your details each time you use feedalizr.
You will always be up to date with your friends' posts as feedalizr checks each service, i.e. twitter, friendfeed, flickr and jaiku regularly. You can also select the 'show toasters' option on the Settings page. When there is a new update a window or toast will pop up in the bottom right corner of your desktop to alert you that one of your friends has shared something new.
Feedalizr window
To access the latest info that your friends are sharing on the web, simply double click on the item to be taken to the source of the update. If you are viewing a Twitter window, you can reply, direct message and favourite a message.
The Friendfeed and Flickr windows also allow you to like and comment on an update.
Tabs
Tabs allow you to view the feed of one person's service separately from the main feed, but still in the same window. Simply click on a friend's name or icon and a new tab will open, showing only entries posted by the person for a particular service, i.e. twitter, friendfeed, flickr or Jaiku. But more than that - this list of entries will contain more entries for this person than you can see on the home tab. You can see your friend’s entire history in one tab, allowing you to more easily follow conversations. You can close a tab by hovering your mouse over the tab title, and clicking the close button (a cross in a circle).
Filters
Filters are a simple way to get rid of the noise in the stream. Want to see only twitter ? Simple - click "select filter", and click on "twitter". The current tab will only show items posted on twitter. Want to see posts by a particular user for a particular service? Click on that user's icon to open a new tab, or click on "select filter" and select the username of the user for that service. Remember to remove the filters when you are done with them - simply click the filter box, and select "select filter". Filters work on individual tabs, so you can use a different filter for each user's tab. The biggest change with feedalizr beta version 2.1 is that you can create individual filters by username and service.
Duplication of Friendfeed entries
Feedalizr minimizes all duplicate Friendfeed entries in your main stream from Twitter, Flickr and Jaiku. For example if you are following someone on Twitter and you also receive their Twitter posts in their Friendfeed stream, you will usually see the entries twice. To save you time feedalizr now minimizes the Friendfeed duplicate. If you want to see both entries you can click on the expand button.
Feedalizr provides full client support for Twitter. You need a Twitter account to use this service, so keep your Twitter username and password handy. You access the service by clicking the twitter icon on the top left of your feedalizr application 
. When you click the icon, you will be shown a window in which you can type your "tweets". These are limited to 140 characters, because this is what Twitter allows - you will see the number of available characters at the bottom left of the window at all times. If you have used the Twitter interface before, you will not be asked for a user name and password, but if this is your first time, simply enter your twitter user name and password. This service posts your tweets directly to Twitter.
Direct messages now appear on a white background (see below). These are private messages sent directly to you that no one else, who is following you on Twitter, can see.
Feedalizr offers you the most convenient way to tweet from the desktop! If you need to know more about Twitter, visit the Twitter help page.
Friendfeed
Feedalizr provides full client support for Friendfeed. You need a Friendfeed account to follow you friends' stream, 'like' and comment on their posts. Feedalizr enables you to post these actions directly to FriendFeed. Click the Friendfeed icon at the top of your feedalizr application. If this is the first time you are posting to Friendfeed from feedalizr, you must obtain an API or remote key. You do this by clicking on "get remote key " just below the remote key box. Enter your Friendfeed nickname and the remote key in the appropriate boxes, click on save and you are ready. Since you have already authenticated against FriendFeed when you launched Feedalizr, we know that you have an account, and you are able to post immediately. To use the service, click on the friendfeed icon at the top of the feedalizr window 
. You will be shown a window where you can add a "title" and a link. The link is a normal hyperlink (i.e. something starting with http://www.... ). The title can really be anything - just type a description of the link. When you press the "share" button, the entry will be sent directly to the friendfeed service, and will be available on your desktop almost immediately.
Flickr
Flickr integration is one of the most useful features in feedalizr. Using feedalizr, you can post photos and other images directly to Flickr. You can even take pictures using your webcam and send them straight to your personal Flickr account! Once again - you have to have an account on Flickr, and in order to see your Flickr posts in feedalizr, you must subscribe to the Flickr service in feedalizr. To start using Flickr, click on the Flickr icon at the top of your feedalizr screen 
. You will be shown the window shown here below. If this is the first time you are using Flickr via feedalizr, you must click the button that says "request authorisation". This will take you to a webpage, where you must log into your Flickr account. Once you have done that, you will see web page which confirms that you have successfully authorised feedalizr. You must now go back to the feedalizr application, and click the button that says "complete authorisation". That's it - you are ready to post. And you only have to do this once, don't worry ;).
Authorisation is the hardest part of using Flickr. To upload a picture, all you have to do is to drag it to the box on feedalizr that says "drag & drop your images here". Pretty straightforward. You can drag up to twenty five images to upload. Once you press the upload button, the pictures will be uploaded. Each image will be saved in Flickr's "large" format, meaning it will be automatically resized so that the largest dimension is 1024 pixels.
Feedalizr offers an alternative way to get images to Flickr, using your own webcam. This is really simple - once the Flickr service window is open, just click the "start camera" button, and you are good to go. You will see an image appearing in the area where you normally drag and drop pictures (most likely this will be an image of your honourable self). Do you like what you see ? Good - press "snap". The picture will appear in the list of pictures for upload to Flickr. Press "upload" and the picture will be uploaded to Flickr. The newly uploaded images will appear in feedalizr as soon as friendfeed picks up the changes from Flickr.
(Note for Ubuntu users - the web cam driver that Flash uses on Ubuntu does not work correctly...you will probably not be able to use the webcam to post to flickr. We will notify you as soon as Adobe has corrected this problem. If you are either the hacker or adventurous type, you can try this solution. )
Jaiku
The Jaiku service is not public yet...but for those lucky enough to have an account, you can post to it directly from feedalizr. Click the Jaiku icon at the top of your feedalizr application 
. If this is the first time you post to Jaiku from feedalizr, you must obtain an API or personal key. You do this by clicking on "get personal key" just below the personal key box. Enter your Jaiku user name and the personal key in the appropriate boxes, click and save and you are ready. Jaiku also allows only 140 characters in a post, similar to twitter. Say what you have to say, and press the green "jaiku" button. That's it - easy as that. You've created a jaiku.
Video
Video is an experimental feature that enables feedalizr to stream video directly from their webcams to our server. You can also post a link to your video on your Friendfeed stream. To use this feature you need to have a Friendfeed account. Click the Video icon at the top of your feedalizr application. If this is the first time you are recording a video from your webcam from feedalizr, you must obtain an API or remote key. You do this by clicking on "get remote key " just below the remote key box. Enter your Friendfeed nickname and the remote key in the appropriate boxes, click on save and you are ready. Click the video icon at the top of your feedalizr application 
and press "start camera" button. Now put on your best smile, take a deep breath, and press the red record button. You are on air! You have thirty seconds to get your message across. You can stop recording by pressing the stop button, and you can review the video by pressing the green play button. Like it ? Press "post video" to make the video publicly available on the feedalizr. Feel free to experiment!
User Information
When you move your mouse over one of your Friendfeed friends' avatars, you will see a window appear with all the information about the user. You will see icons that show all the services to which your friend is subscribed on FriendFeed. To find the name of a particular service, just hover with the mouse over the icon. If you click the icon it will take you directly to the users page on that particular service.
In addition to the list of services, you will see a list of the users to whom your friend is subscribed. You can click on any of these user names, and the link will take you directly to this person's friendfeed page. This is an easy and convenient way to explore feeds!
