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Workspaces – the good, the cluttered

June 14th, 2009 — Odd Ends

Probably your typical work space. Cube and paperwork. Yeah, that’s my normal routine even as a System Analyst. Go figure.

Here’s what my workspace at home looks like.

Can you say clutter? Yeah. It seems like chaos, but I’m managing. It helps when my wife is around to straighten some of it up. Sadly, she doesn’t help me get my cube desk organized.

Cheers,
Todd

Inspired by an article on Sparkplugging.

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Seesmic Desktop Client Update – More OSX friendly

May 22nd, 2009 — Social Networking, Tools

Hello Seesmic friends,

we have just pushed a new version of Seesmic Desktop, it should self update when you

start it or you can just copy and paste in your browser:

http://d.seesmic.com/seesmic/SeesmicDesktop-0.2.1.air

Here is the list of the improvements we have made:

Ability to view and enter comments into Facebook

Added spellcheck feature with the ability to enable and disable

Now supporting pikchur and yfrog to share images on Twitter

Added spam reporting feature to help send spam warnings to Twitter’s @spam account

Ability to block users who are following you on Twitter

Ability to use Tweetshrink before sending messages (see http://tweetshrink.com/about)

Access to view favorites within your Twitter account timeline

Improved profile enhancements (added follow/unfollow within a profile along with the ability to reply and direct message)

Option to start Seesmic Desktop at login

Verification dialog box upon deletions of Userlists, Searches

For OSX: Added standard buttons for OSX and improved idle CPU usage

Displayed version information in update tab

Looks like a great bit of stuff. I’m most pleased of course about the OSX efficiency improvement. Some of these improvement are really just playing catch up with other clients. That said, the Facebook interaction is a step up.

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Twitter Seesmic Desktop Client

April 8th, 2009 — Review, Social Networking, Tools

Seesmic Twitter Desktop Client

Seesmic’s team has released a new Twitter desktop client. It supports several much requested features.

Feature Highlights

Multiple Twitter ID support – reading and posting
Multiple column
Easy search – converts to column
Closing columns is not the same as deleting – searches and other columns saved
Easy to generate user lists – become columns
Adobe Air application – runs across platforms

These aren’t unknown across other Twitter clients, but it’s a total revamp of Twhirl, the previous Seesmic client. Mind you the version I’m trying out is a ‘preview’ release and some or all of the features may change.

First look

Seems smoother than other clients – might just be perception, but I’m not seeing the spinning disk on my Mac
Color scheme could use some work or themes
Easy to form user lists and searches. Doing a search instantly forms a column and places it out to the right. Same for user lists.
Seems to grab all available friend updates – was never sure about this with clients before
Includes easy short URL and image support, including built in web cam shots. <- fun bonus

All in all, I’m not sure it’ll replace Tweetdeck as my preferred client. It doesn’t have integration with Facebook or 12Second.tv, both of which I use. If you don’t care about that integration then I recommend giving this a try.

Since it’s preview, you’ll have to register at the Desktop site. You’ll receive an email shortly after that to download it.

If you aren’t using a Twitter client, then you aren’t really enjoying Twitter.