I’ve been a fan of Twitter for Mac (previously Tweetie) for quite the long time. My Twitter usage on the Mac first started as in-browser then I needed a built-in separate application and tried every option out there: Nambu, Seesmic, Tweetdeck, Destroy Twitter… Every one of those apps, especially the Adobe Air ones, was painful. Slow, not keyboard-shortcut friendly, and cluttered, beyond belief: columns and tabs and options and more columns. Basically everything the Mac isn’t. Until I came across Tweetie. Dang was I in love! Simple design, many features, everything keyboard shortcut friendly.
But the honeymoon ended a long time ago. See, while Tweetie was a joy to use, its simplicity killed it mainly because Twitter grew and Tweetie didn’t. Twitter added official RTs, Lists, Geotags, and much more options, none of which got supported by Tweetie. In March of this year, I bought the Mac Bundle only because they offered a full version of Tweetie and an exclusive access to the Tweetie 2 beta in about a month, which I was super excited about. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Echofon, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Tweetie, Twitter, Twitter for Mac
I’m a music fan and usually when I like a certain song, I download the whole album it was released on. Going through this strategy for 3 years now, I probably have hundreds of songs I never listened to in my library but I also discovered tons of amazing songs that never made it as Singles and that I wouldn’t have heard otherwise. I have also ended up with a nice collection of favorite artists whom I follow and try to have a full recent discography for.
That’s why I’ve always looked for a service that tracks those favorite artists and tells me whenever they release a new album. Obviously, I didn’t want to sit down and type the name of every artist I can think of, instead I wanted the service to pull that data from my iTunes or my Last.Fm account. After years of looking for that, I finally found it last week: AlbumReminder. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: AlbumReminder, Albums, Music, Service
Lately, I have been spending most of my time in the mountain house, away from any internet connection except for my mobile data. Regardless, I have been able to stay on top of news thanks to the brilliant Google Reader “Reeder” application on my iPod Touch and a fantastic tethering application for my N97 Mini called JoikuSpot. The whole setup takes roughly 1Mb of bandwidth per day so I can sync once my 242 feeds and read them throughout the day.
One problem I have faced though, the first few days of this setup, is partial RSS feeds, you know, the truncated kind that shows you 2 lines of text and forces you to go back to the full website to read the rest of the post. Normally, if I was on my computer, I’d click on for the full website and all would be well, but you see how this wasn’t practical when I was mobile on an iPod Touch and with only a limited-bandwidth tethered WiFi connection. That’s why I needed to have the full feed in my Google Reader and that’s where WizardRSS came into play. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: feeds, google reader, rss, wizardrss
Yesterday marked a day in history in my life. Two major decisions that were boiling down for a few months in my head finally came true and it took me a while to realize what had just happened and where to go from there.
This is what I love about Twitter. Often, I have an idea nagging me that I want to write about, but I feel the picture is incomplete in my head, so I make what you can call a bold statement on Twitter. It’s an eye-catching phrase that’s a bit radical and that fails to show any moderate position. Then I start refreshing my timeline frantically awaiting for the replies to come, agreeing or disagreeing with me. By the time I finally sit down to write the post, I have my full argumentation ready. You could say that I’m cheating because I already have answers to your counter-arguments 
but grow a pair, I’m pretty sure you can find other points to raise if you think deeply. I use this strategy frequently, because I always love to form a balanced opinion. I can’t help it, I’m a Libra, apparently it’s in my character.
Today, the topic at hand was the Lebanese Blogosphere and its lack of specialized blogs. Here’s what I said to spark the conversation:
U know what I don’t like abt lebanese blogosphere? All of u guys blog abt the same thgs. Differenciate urselves plz #truthhurts
And like I expected, I started a slew of replies and comments. Fun! Forget that radical statement, here’s what I really want to say about the matter. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Blogosphere, Blogs, Lebanese, Lebanon, Social Media, Twitter
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