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Under Review: gTwitter

September 17th, 2008 · No Comments

gTwitter is a Twitter client for Linux written in Mono/C# and uses GTK+ for the GUI, which was inspired by the Mac client Twitterific. The version being tested is 1.0 beta, released in June 2007. According to the project’s homepage, gTwitter is currently “under heavy development”.
I wrote a text review of the gTwitter application over [...]

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Under Review: Tweenky

September 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Tweenky is a relatively new Twitter client that’s currently in beta. Tweenky is different from most Twitter clients in the sense that it’s a web-based application. This has both good and bad aspects to it, but overall, Tweenky handles it well. It’s written primarily in PHP and uses jQuery extensively, and also relies on Amazon’s [...]

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Under Review: Twitux

September 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

Twitux is a Twitter client designed for use in Linux. The application is written in C and uses GTK+ for the GUI. The name Twitux is presumably a mashup of Twitter and Tux, the traditionally heralded Linux mascot. The current release of Twitux is version 0.62, which was released on April 29, 2008.
I wrote a [...]

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Under Review: Stickam

August 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Stickam is a social networking site centered around user-submitted media (videos, photos, and audio). Stickam’s main focus is on its live streaming and video conferencing modes. Stickam is one of many life streaming video services, amongst the ranks of Ustream.tv, live.yahoo.com, and blogTV, to name a few.
User Interface:
Here’s a snapshot of the main window [...]

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Under Review: Armor All Wash & Scrub Sponge

August 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Normally I like to keep things tech with my reviews, but I wanted to try my hand at a quick video review. I laugh at myself when I realize I’m posting a video review of a sponge. Unbelievable.

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Under Review: Toodledo

August 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Toodledo is an online to-do list service. In a saturated market, it’s important that a service stands out in order to be distinguished among the other competitors. On a superficial level, I like Toodledo more than I like other services like Remember the Milk, todoist, and ta-da lists. Toodledo is intuitive and [...]

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Under Review: TweetDeck

July 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I recently came across some another desktop Twitter client called TweetDeck. TweetDeck runs on the AIR platform and is currently in private beta, but anyone can download it. Its aim is to take all your tweets and break them down into manageable pieces. In my opinion, it does an excellent job of [...]

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