I give this warning only because I'm still being kidded for saying at a recent barbecue that I was sad that I missed it when Barack Obama Twittered me to tell me who his choice for VP was.  "He what?" they asked.  "He twiddled you?"  Obviously, no, but it was easier to laugh with them than to explain.

I never really understood why someone would use Twitter.  It's a place to post a short, 150-character update (or "Tweet") of what you're up to.  People can then follow you and your Tweets will show up on their Twitter home page.  Are you following?

To me Twitter was useless. I have a website to fill people in on what I'm doing.  I try to update my Facebook page daily, that's where my short updates are going.  Why would I Twitter?  It's redundant. But then I found more friends who were Twittering, and fake internet friends (who aren't real friends but who feel like it since I read their blogs everyday) who were Twittering, too.  I started following them all and that gave me a reason to check Twitter more than just once a month.

And then I found my new favorite thing: TwitterFox.  Now forgive me because I never had any friends with computers when IMing was the thing to do.  I've never IM'd.  I don't even know what I just typed.  But from what I can tell, TwiterFox makes Twitter like IM.  (Head spinning yet?)

As people you follow on Twitter post new Tweets, a little window pops up on your screen to let you know what they've written.  You can also post a Tweet from there without going to the Twitter website.  This has been incredibly entertaining as I work on lame budgets and spreadsheets and things at work and a new Tweet from Amalah or Amanda pops up.  I love it.  It makes me laugh, it makes me feel connected.  And that's why TwitterFox is my new favorite thing.

OK, internetspeak over.  I'll go back to speaking English now, I swear.

-John

Pues bien, hoy ha aparecido en la AppStore Twitterfon, un nuevo cliente de Twitter que, según sus autores, prioriza el rendimiento y la fluidez frente a mayor número de opciones; según sus propias palabras "si lo que buscáis son más opciones, descargad otro programa". Se puede decir más alto pero no más claro. Como dato adicional, cabe decir que ésta aplicación es de los mismos creadores de Twitterfox, el plugin de Twitter para Firefox más usado.

Una vez probado el programa he de decir que me ha gustado bastante; su interfaz gráfica es muy sencilla y coherente con la estética del resto de menús del iPhone y iPod Touch, siendo además el cliente más estable y ligero que he probado hasta el momento en este dispositivo. Sus opciones, eso sí, son bastante limitadas: podemos ver los twitts de nuestros amigos, las réplicas que nos hacen y los mensajes privados. Eso es todo.

Podemos también acceder a los links e imágenes que otros publican, pero no publicar imágenes que hemos tomado con el teléfono o que tengamos en nuestra biblioteca. Del mismo modo, la aplicación carece de opciones de geolocalización, la última moda en este tipo de clientes.

Si buscas un cliente de Twitter sencillo y eficaz (además de gratuito), ésta es tu opción sin ninguna duda. El resto de usuarios que le den importancia a poder compartir sus imágenes, su ubicación, etc. tendrán que seguir esperando a que salga un cliente de la calidad de este, pero con mayores posibilidades y características. ¿Acaso es tan difícil?

+ Twitterfon

Blogging is starting to be too much of a task. I mean you have to come up with a lot of material just to come up with one post. There are simple ways to blog but none easier then Twitter. If i have something to say i just got to my Twitterfox and type away. If there is a link i would like to show or anything else im doing i  Twitthat.

Im not much of a blogger more like the seeker of knowledge and twitter helps me keep track of all the things i tweet about. Till i get my Ipod Touch or anything else that will allow me to be mobile i might think about really blogging but for now im confined to stay in front of my computer till then.

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10 New and/or Improved Firefox 3 Add-ons to enhance your browsing experience

1. StumbleUpon - Let's keep it real, it is still as addictive as before and make you reach the enf of the internet -­ twice - through sleepless nights. A good add-on that will allow you to literally browse the web - your way
2. PicLens - Now that has got to be the coolest add-on ever made. You know whenever you're on Google Images, and you have to go through 7 different pages that take hours to load before you can actually find the one that you're interested in? How about when you're watching your friends' pictures on Facebook, MySpace or Flicker? Well fear no more: PicLens is an add-on that transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for online photos and videos. That's right, VIDEOS too! This add-on searches through Amazon, Google, YouTube, Flicker, deviantArt, Photobucket, Facebook, Myspace and more! Highly Recommended.
3. Fast Dial - Another awesome and very useful add-on. I barely use my bookmarks anymore: Fast Dial replaces the 'about:blank' page whenever you open a new tab with a panel of thumbnails of your favorite sites. A real time-saver inspired by Opera's Speed Dial. Again: Highly Recommended.
4. TwitterFox - For all the Twitters out there, stop downloading Twitterific or whatever it's called for PCs. Get TwitterFox. You can follow your friends or write down a Twitt directly from Firefox. It's just extremely convenient, and you don't even have to launch another application.
5. ScribeFire - This is mainly for the bloggers. I'm actually typing this blog through ScribeFire; it's a full-featured blog editor that integrates with Firefox and lets you easily post your blog. I can browse the web while I'm doing blogging to make sure all my web references and links are correct. Sweet add-on.
6. Previews - The makers of PicLens did it again. "Best extension ever? Quite possibly." - LifeHacker. "Cooliris makes you a more efficient web surfer." - CNet. I somewhat agree: it is very useful when you're on Craigslist, MySpace or Facebook when you want to see a listing but don't want to go from one page back to the index page and onto the next page and so on... it pops a new window within your already-opened tab so you can see different pages within one. I had to set it up to my convenience, but it's definitely worth it if you don't want to waste your time going back and forth one page.
7. Google Notebook - The page you're on is somewhat interesting but not enough to read it right now, and definitely not interesting to bookmark? Put it in your notebook. Useful little add-on.And now for the web developers; I use those practically everyday at work:
8. FireFTP - Just as useful as it before, you don't need another application for a cross-platform FTP, it works better then before (looks like they did some tweaking) and it provides easy and intuituve access to different FTP servers.
9. FireBug - This little add-on allows you to edit, debug and monitor CSS, HTML and JavaScript live in any web page. Very helpful and useful when you need to tweak your CSS.
10. Web Developer - This add-on and FireBug make a great team. Web Developer adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.

I haven't used all the add-ons that I used to have, for I've noticed that the more add-ons you use, the more memory they use, and they drastically slow down firefox and sometimes make it crash (ok, I had a PC, but that's another story). So now I'm only using the ones that are necessary, useful, will make me save time and really improve my browsing experience.

Again, should you have any comments, suggestions, disagreements, whatever... feel free to leave a comment! Thanks for reading.

Many are jumping ships to other sites such as Plurk, Kwippy, Identi.ca, Pownce, etc. Friendfeed is also gaining some of the ex-Tweeters. I am signed up on all of them as mlibrarianus.

My main problem with leaving Twitter is my "friends" or followers. Some are on Plurk or one or two on Kwippy or several on Friendfeed but none of them are all in one place like Twitter. Sure I can send invites from these other sites to get my followers to jump ship but which one? I've yet to find one that I like better than Twitter at the moment.  Plus what I like about Twitter is all the different apps that have spawn out of it. Spaz, Twirl, Twitterfox, Twitwheel, TweetLater and my all time favorite Twitterfeed.  I know Friendfeed has several applications as well but I'm not hooked on Friendfeed like I am Twitter.

Friendfeed certainly does have some attractive features (being able to link to all your social networks and have display in one place).  I guess it's the age old problem - lead, follow or get out of the way.

Lead - if you lead and have plenty of followers fine, your friends are there along side you.  However, if you lead to a place they don't like you are left out in cyber space alone.

Follow - not always the best path to take but you are never alone.

Get out of the way - maybe the best approach to just sit back and let everyone fight it out?

Thinking that I'll just let the dust settle a bit and then see what's the next big thing.  Until then I'll Tweet away while Plurking my Kwips all on Friendfeed.

La primera impresión al utilizar el navegador de internet Firefox, no es muy positiva. Piensas que es lo mismo que el Explorer y, encima, no tienes tus Favoritos a mano. En Firefox se sustituyen por la opción "Marcadores", pero están como menos visibles.

Pero, descubrí el complemento "Delicious Bookmarks". Hasta entonces no le veía una utilidad a mi cuenta de delicious, porque está muy bien el poder organizar con etiquetas y compartir tus páginas de internet, pero si cada vez que querías consultar algo, tenías que ir a la web de delicious, no erea práctico. Pues bien,  con el complemento de Firefox, se abre una barra lateral (igual que con los favoritos del Explorer), pero con la ventaja de que tienes un buscador de etiquetas y de marcadores. Superpráctico.

La barra de URL, direcciones de internet, es inteligente y te completa la direcciones, dándote varias opciones, aunque sólo escribas alguna palabra.

Y, para adictos al Twitter, está el complemento Twitterfox. Es un poco más sencillo que el Twhirl, pero te mantiene al día de tus contactos, sin tener que utilizar otra aplicación fuera del navegador.

Lástima que en la versión 3 del Firefox, hemos perdido el traductor Babylon, que, sólo seleccionando una palabra, te la traducía a tu idioma y, también, te buscaba en wikipedia el significado.

Cámbiate a Firefox, tu vida online será más sencilla ...

- Twitterfox. This twitter client sits in the bottom right corner of the browser window and alerts you when you have a new tweet. When closed it appears only as a small "t" but click on it and it brings up a small interface that allows you to see recent tweets, replies and direct messages. Unlike many apps that run off the Twitter API this one is fast, it updates frequently and I haven't had any problems with it. I think it might even run smoother than Flocks integrated Twitter sidebar.

- Del.icio.us. bookmark plugin allows you to interact with you online bookmarks more efficently by simply clicking the "Tag" icon when viewing a page you wish to bookmark. A pop up window allows you to enter all the info you would normally record and tag the URL accordingly. It's very useful if you use Del.icio.us. often.

- Stylish doesn't do much, but it allows you to add favicons to the bookmark bar instead of just the text as Firefox for OS X would normally display. There really isn't much to say about Stylish other than it adds a visual aspect to your bookmarks that otherwise wouldn't be present under the default settings.

- Finally the flashiest and most superfluous add-on for Firefox is PicLens. PicLens adds a coverflowesk interface to sites like Flickr, Youtube, Facebook, Google Images, and others. You can scroll through media like you would in the cover flow view in iTunes, but it also allows you to scroll in to photos, or zoom out to show many photos at once. It's great if you want a quick way of looking at someones photostream on Flickr, or if your looking to view some random YouTube videos.

All of these add-on can be found by going to Tools -> Add-ons in the Firefox menubar.

My progress has been from Twitbin -> Flock -> TwitterFox -> Twhirl. You asked for the short version so here you go:

I like Twhirl because:

• It has all the functions of TwitterFox that I liked and then some
• It has it's own window outside of the toolbar
• It's customizable with skins and such
• It shows @s and DMs and normal tweets in different colors
• It shows my Tweet's profile pic and hovering over it gives me instant access to @ or DM
• Send pics from w/in twhirl
• Search, filter, mark as seen, trash, favorite with the click of a button
• Auto updates and notifies you with pop-ups

Anyone else? What are your thoughts on Twitter apps? What do you use?

Dazu muss man lediglich sein Konto bei dem Plugin anmelden und noch einige kleinere Einstellungen vornehmen (wenn man will) z.B. wie oft Tweets aktualisiert werden sollen, und in welchen Intervallen die Pop-Ups kommen sollen. Dazu kann man noch bei Bedarf ganz im Stile von ICQ und co. einen Sound einstellen, der ertönt, sobald neue Tweets eintreffen.

Ich halte das Plugin für überaus nützlich: Spart mir ein Tab und ich bin immer auf dem Laufenden, was bei Twitter so abgeht. Darauf gekommen bin ich übrigens dadurch, dass ich seit eben von Tobias gefollowt werde, und dieser seine Tweets mit dem Twitterfox verfasst.

In diesem Sinne, schönen Tag noch!

This week we wrap up our two part series on using technology to enhance your woodworking experience. And I have a follow-up story on the "Mower Grassbuster."

Here are links to some of the things I discuss in this episode:

• Firefox web browser
• Wordpress.com
• Wordpress.org
• LiveJournal
• Blogger
• Photobucket
• Flickr
• Picasa
• 1Topix Forum Aggregator
• Forum Additive Firefox add-on
• Twitter
• TwitterFox Firefox add-on

Twitterfox is a addon extention for firefox that blowes away Twhirl which is nothing that i use to post to twitter. I wanted to let people know that this is so much better using your twitter from firefox and you don't have to leave your current page.

A neat little feature is that you can link the current page you are reading and creates a tiny url for you to post on twitter. Isn't life grand

1. Adblock plus: Bloquea practicamente todos los elementos publicitarios (ads) que pueden aparecerte
2. Personas: Cambia tus temas de firefox facilmente
3. Twitterfox: Perfecta integracion de twitter con Iceweasel :)
4. DownloadStatusbar: Por si no lo habeis notado, el "popup" de descargas de firefox es muy incordioso, esta utilidad minimiza a la barra de tareas este popup, dejandolo bonito y util
5. Noscript: Aumenta la seguridad de firefox bloqueando scripts en sitios "no seguros".
6. Editado: Download Helper: Descarga videos de sitios como youtube o metacafé.

Aquí dejo un pequeño video de firefox funcionando con ellos:

Sjekk mer her: http://www.naan.net/trac/wiki/TwitterFox

Noen andre tillegg som kan være nyttige:

• GoogleGears
• FEBE
• Furl Tools
  
• Showcase
• ScribeFire
• Foxmarks

Har du noen tips til add-ons du bruker til Firefox og som kan være nyttige for andre?

Firefox got an upgrade last night, to beta 5 (the final beta before release later this month) - and my two favourite extensions - in fact, the only two I ever really use - are incompatible. Yes, AdBlock and Twitterfox are no longer my friends. This is bad for a few reasons:

• ads are evil, obtrusive and just plain annoying
• the web looks so nice without them (oh, I remember the singing ads on facebook...)
• I am getting addicted to twitter.

I look forward to seeing these fixed sharpish!

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My replacement 8GB SDHC card finally arrived courtesy of Newegg, so now I'm rocking an extra 12 gigs of storage (SDHC card + 4GB flash drive) over and above the 4GB internal SSD. I had initially thought that I would use the SDHC card as a test bed to dual-boot the Eee PC, but I'm finding that I'm really happy with EeeXubuntu, and I don't feel the need to switch to any other OS at the moment. EeeXubuntu is fast, stable, usable, and with access to the entire Ubuntu repositories, highly expandable (something the default Xandros OS is not).

These folks are trying to get Mac OS X Tiger running on the Eee PC.  So far the main problem seems to be that the OS 10.4.9 kernel thinks that one second is 2.6 seconds long on the Eee PC. Several people on the site are offering cash rewards for solutions to getting OS X running smoothly on the Eee PC. Personally, even though I love the Mac OS, I don't think it's a good fit for the Eee PC; I think it would need to be heavily modified before it could be useful on the tiny wonder. I'll be watching their progress, though.