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[24 Oct 2008 | One Comment | 32 views]
Twitter from Skype (and how to turn it off) - twitter4skype

To twitter from Skype, simply add username ‘twitter4skype’ to your contact list, and message the following (using Shift+Enter for new lines):
/account
username
password
However - I had great trouble turning it off again when I realised every few seconds new tweets started pouring into my window (and so down the side of the screen).
Turning it off again. To turn it on/off, type #on or #off respectively. Use #exit to log out. Now I know, I just need to share it before the next unsuspecting victim has to abandon their account.

Miscellaneous, News, Reviews »

[3 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 0 views]

Google’s Beta testing its new service designed to improve Google’s image library. The concept is that you ‘tag’ the image randomly displayed to you and an anonymous partner.

So how does this help all 5.999 billion other citizens of the world? When you tag the image (provided you and your partner do so sensibly), your tag will be added to the image. The next time someone searches for that tagged image, it’ll be higher up the rankings. Not much will be done if one person did it, but on the …

Apple, Microsoft, News »

[2 Jun 2008 | No Comment | 3 views]

One of two things are going to happen. Either Steve Jobs is up to his usual tricks and is investing in ways to send those who follow Apple’s patterns off the trail, or MacRumours (and others) have got something right.
The sudden outburst of rumours are generally fuelled by the evidence spotted in the MacRumours forum. They noticed Apple’s recent purchase of www.me.com. This was recently followed by the acquisition of www.mobileme.com. I’m no expert, but it’s a safe bet that these domains cost a lot of money, as the …

Apple, Media, Microsoft, News »

[30 May 2008 | 2 Comments | 2 views]

It’s here! Unbelievably, for some reason, not found before, by the masses, Internet Explorer has been ported (well…) for Intel OS X. Using the Wine platform, IE6 and IE7 has been ported to Linux, then to OS X.
It’s built under GPL, so the source is freely available from the main site.
Why is this so important?
A huge portion of the web design industry is Mac-based, as designers most appreciate the design put into the Mac. The only obstacle against them, in the past, was that they couldn’t test on arguably the …

Media, Ramblings »

[30 May 2008 | 4 Comments | 4 views]

I know hundreds of keen Twitter users. We’ve been there since the start, and loved it all the way. However, it seems that now the huge media boom surrounding it, and other social networking systems, it’s struggling to keep up. Constantly being bombarded with excuses, errors and more does not help its user-count.

It’s a classic case of the developers doing the business-man’s job. Having received over $80 million in funding, and still unable to afford scalable servers is quite frankly a scare.
Twitter’s always been built on Ruby, from the …