Archive for April, 2009
Posted by Stuart on April 20, 2009 at 15:31 pm
If you haven’t heard of Tweetie, it is a Twitter app for the iPhone/iPod touch. Today, April 20th, Atebits released the Mac version.
Just like all good Mac apps, Tweetie is easy to use. There is a sidebar on the left. On the top of the sidebar there is your account picture. When you have that account selected, it will show four buttons under it. One for the timeline, one for mentions (replies), one for direct messages, and one for search. On the top there is a navigation bar that tells you where you are in the application (for instance, if your looking at a reply from someone, it would say “Mentions > Conversation”. A cool feature about Tweetie is the direct messages. When you go to the DM’s section, it will show all the people you have sent/received messages from. When you click on that person, it will come up in an iChat-like chat. There is also a “Reply…” button up at the top if you want to send a message to that person. Another cool feature is the user info. When you click on a person’s profile picture, it will show their name, username, & their tweets. There are also four buttons under their name: tweets, people replying to that person, starred, and their profile info. You can also add the bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar which will pull up a tweet message with that page’s URL.
Tweetie for Mac costs $19.95 or $14.95 if you buy it before May 4th. There is a free version with ads, also.
Posted by Admin on April 17, 2009 at 16:08 pm
As you may or may not know YouTube now have two new features, Shows and Movies. We have been expecting something like this for the past week and now it has come true, YouTube is turning into HuluTube. Even though the Shows and Movies are not from Hulu, it’s the same concept.
YouTube is changing, it’s not about viral video anymore or the user, it’s about ad revenue. YouTube have made other changes that we have not been too happy with, but they have not done anything about it. They have completely hidded the Top Discussed, Top Favorites, Top Rated, etc. They are still there but under the “more tab”, which makes it hard to notice.
Unless your channel is already popular it will be very hard to start from nothing and build up. Like I said, all YouTube wants is money from ads. The 30 second ads appear before the show or movie that you are watching starts and about 5 or more times during the show or movie.
As you can see YouTube is changing, in a couple of years or less it might be completely different from what it is now. Let’s hope for the best, and that our videos don’t get buried.
Posted by Stuart on April 7, 2009 at 17:36 pm
No, i’m not talking about what time it is. Times is a neat little RSS application for the Mac operating system made by Acrylic. Except this isn’t your ordinary RSS reader.
Times turns everything into a newspaper-like layout, making it easy to find and read anything you want to. You can add different pages/sections of your “newspaper”, each with its own title or category. You can then add feeds to the different spots on that page. Times comes with 25 different pre-entered feeds that you can use or delete. Adding different ones is a charm. Just click on the plus icon and you can type in the URL and Times will pick up the name of the feed (which you can edit if you like). If you have a URL pasted to your clipboard, then it will automatically show up in the URL spot. One cool feature in Times is the shelf. Simply drag the article you want to the shelf, and you can save it for later reading- without worrying about you loosing it between all the other ones. If you want to inform the world with what you’re reading, just enter your login information (for sites like Digg and Twitter).
Posted by Admin on April 4, 2009 at 08:45 am
Yes, that’s right the DSi will be released in the US tomorrow April 5th. If you have not pre-ordered yours and you want one I would highly recommend you do because there won’t be too many in stock when because there are many pre-orders.
The launch colors will be black and blue so you don’t have too many choices. There will be DSi only retail games which is not good for DS users who don’t want to upgrade. Downloadable content is also a new feature, and mp3 playing.
At $169.99 with all the new features I would say it’s worth buying, even if you have a DS Lite. So, will you buy one?
