Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Twitter is great thing and, thanks to Geek Hero Comic's author (go read it!), I found out about this great and simple blog that posts photos from around the world featuring "unnecessary" quotation marks! For those of you in doubt, the proper way of using quotation marks can be found here: ... Full story

Power Twitter is a simple but highly recommended Firefox addon for twitter fans who want to view all the information right there without jumping tabs or windows. The addon works a lot like the popular Greasemonkey scripts, changing twitter's web interface in order to improve the user ... Full story

Twitter Gadget for Gmail is a twitter client embedded right in Gmail, allowing you to have one more service focused in just one browser tab/window. Instructions to install this gadget are quite simple and information is provided in the gadget's website, which needs a bit of a face ... Full story

This is why I love twitter: 10 seconds after shouting about the latest post I got a reply about it, which made me investigate a bit more and it seems that my source (BBspot) played a trick on everyone.. Thank's @ruimoura for warning me! :-) Anyway, ... Full story

Twitter is a simple message-based system which is easy to use, practical, API-friendly, free and most of all: it asks the simplest of questions: What are you doing? - So, why do people hate it so much? I talked to some people about this service and the answers were basically these: I never heard about ... Full story

So, you have a twitter account and follow a bunch of people who might also be following you, right? So far, so good... but what if you belong to a team and need a simple communication method that doesn't makes anyone waste time with unecessary crap? Fear not! Twitter is the solution and GroupTweet ... Full story

A British snowboarder has died in the Swiss Alps after online rescue updates on Twitter helped to find his friend alive. Ms Dewberry started the online updates when she wrote: "2 of our ski party been missing since 4pm. Conditions terrible. 1 guy found but trapped. 20 ... Full story

This tuesday Gmail was down for a couple of hours in the morning, and Google quickly explained what happened on their blog, from which I quote: (...) This morning, there was a routine maintenance event in one of our European data centers. (...) Unexpected side effects of some new code that ... Full story

Microsoft recenly updated Windows Live services a bit... ok, a lot! Skydrive now holds a whopping 25GB storage capacity and is still completely free. The file uploading system still sucks ass but I think that's just a temporary ass-sucking situation. The great thing about this update is that your photos are now located at Windows Live Photos (stored in skydrive)... this new interface is, well, beautiful ... Full story

First of all, for all you non-geeks out there, FTW means For The Win. Digsby is a multi-protocol instant message client. I tried if a couple of months ago, but didn't quite like it, but now it has evolved a bit, and it looks just yummy! I can chat with my friends through my MSN account, while recieving ... Full story