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Twitter
Twitter, don’t knock it til you try it. I am NOT a NYT fan, but I keep them in my feedreader for kicks, giggles, and perspective. Geek that I am, I do enjoy their tech articles. This particular articles is rather amusing. Twitter is a means of keeping friends/family/etc up to date by texting the answer to one simple question, “what are you doing?” Your “tweet”, or response, is received by your followers. Response messages can be turned off/on if you do not want a text from ALL of your followers everytime they get the urge to say what they are up to. Most people use it about like their fbook status and say whatever they happen to be thinking, doing, or reading. You can update via web or via text, doesn’t matter. iGoogle (which I now hate), netvibes, and other homepage sites have twitter apps that let you update without going to the webpage or your phone. You can also link your personal site to Twitter. Now that I have taken up time explaining what it is, let me get to the article…
Twitter is truly whatever you want it to be. Some use it for business. Some use it as a social tool. Some use it for the fun of playing with a new gadget. It’s jsut a new gadget for me, but I do wish more of my family used it. It is a neat way to keep up with info tidbits that connect you with others. I may not have time to type an entire email, or blog post, but I can quickly tweet that I’m having a great day or a rough day…or good news we receive.
Just another fun tech tool IMO. Any opinions?
New Web Toy: Flock!
Yes, the gadget geek inside me strikes again. Actually, Jem found this and I am having the best time exploring and customizing to my own web desires. What is the new web toy? A new browser. Flock.
Here’s what I know. All of my favorite sites: Facebook, Twitter, GMail, Photobucket, and all my blog buddies are linked in the same place with feeds and even site access for the social networks! If you remember a while back I ranted about the the new iGoogle and how the new iGoogle sucks. Problem solved. News, blogs, and social sites all in one place with Flock!
I have been a Firefox fan for years. Since switching to Firefox I have ventured back to IE when they tried to be like Firefox and failed miserably. I also tried Safari, but liked its smooth look and nothing else. Opera is a browser I have to use for my school grades, but I’m not a fan. Firefox always came out on top…and it still may, but…
Flock is created in the shadow of Firefox and uses the same open source format. It has all the goodness of Firefox, with the added benefit of included social network access within the browser, all your feeds so you can ditch iGoogle, and an attractive look too. You can also blog from within the browser. Yes, many of the same activities can be done through Firefox, but it requires the addition of add-ons. All of my favorite Firefox features are included.
Still exploring so I may have to come back and say no, stop, don’t! Right now, I don’t think so. I’m intrigued by the newness.
OMG, since Flock is powered by Mozilla most of the Firefox add-ons work with Flock! I can keep my Foxytunes! Yes, I’m a geek.
Wii-hoo, I’m sore!
We have thoroughly enjoyed our family time. The girls received a Wii for Christmas and it is tons-o-fun. It is also my new exercise routine. 
WP 2.7 YIKES!
Upgraded to WP 2.7 and WOW! Love the QuickPress feature but was TOTALLY confused when all of the admin tools were missing. If you have an admin theme or dropdown admin features installed it will be necessary to deactivate and leave deactivated for the new WP version to work. I kind of like the new. Much easier to customize and one click to get to what you want in the tools. Did I mention QuickPress is cool?
A robot girlfriend???
Dude has issues. Step away from your computer. Step into the real world. You know, I have a student or two that would think this is the ultimate. I’m sorry, I think it’s weird. Not so much the robot part as the fact that he took the time to include sensors in various areas. 33 yo guy wonders why he can’t find the perfect woman, mmmm….mystery solved. Techno geek qualities aside, it could be the fact that his perfect woman is Aiko who he describes, “Aiko doesn’t need holidays, food or rest, and will work almost 24 hours a day. She is the perfect woman.” Wow, even his robot has that WTH? look down.
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MySql- FIXED!
Woohoo! Fixed the SQL problem by eliminating the private post plugin. This makes me happy.
Early Christmas present?
I think probably yeah. I went surfing last night for education themes that I could use on my school websites. Knowing that the search was borderline futile I searched for the theme generator that I found a year or so ago. In the search I ran across a download for theme creation. So excited I decided to give it a try. It was crap. It is called WordPress Theme Generator and it really is complete and total crap. Useless. I went to download dot com to find it so I could add my helpful review and apparently you have to have a login to review. I didn’t feel like dealing with that. However, in the search I found another program. Jackpot!!! Atisteer. There is a free trial that leaves watermarks on whatever you create, but I’m thinking it is well worth the price. One of the things I enjoyed about blogger was the ease of creating my own themes. None were too awesome, but it was a creative outlet for me and I could create something that reflected me and how I was feeling. On WP you either have to learn a slightly different coding system (I tried, but life got in the way) or you have to go with what others create. Some of my favorite themes are completely unusable because there are minor errors in the SQL database and I don’t even know where to start fixing the problem. I could probably figure it out, but it is too much like work. So here is my tech geek contribution to the WWW. Artisteer is what I want and I would like to have it as an early present.
*my current theme, watermarks and all, was created in about 15 minutes this morning.
Anything else? Well, since I’m asking. I also want a portable Tom-Tom or Garmin so that I can start geocaching with the kids. Anyone geocache? I’m open for advice on how to get started. Share and share alike!
Have a great weekend. It is absolutely beautiful here and I plan on enjoying it. Maybe, and that is a big maybe, I will do a little Christmas shopping…but I do have to come up with bday gift for Jem. Hmmm….
The crack-jack
I left my phone at home today. It took every ounce of will power not to turn around to retrieve it. I don’t HAVE to have it. I really can live without it. I mean, people lived for years without cell phones.
*whimper*
Twitter’s been tweeting
I logged on this morning and Twitter had been busy! I recently discovered Twitter and I am trying to talk my family into using it. Twitter is a site where you can link your phone (or not, your choice) and those who choose to follow you can. In a text (or by typing in twitter if you choose not to link your phone) you update your twitter by answering the question: What are you doing? I found a WP plugin that would update your blog with your twitter tweets. Apparently there are a few bugs because there were about 15 tweets saying the same thing. No time to mess with it so I’ll just scrap that blog update idea for now.
As you can see, I redecorated. IMO it is too early for Christmas decorations, but my husband disagrees. I loved the green theme that I was using yesterday, but there were issues with the comment page and I don’t feel like addressing them. So happy holidays people, KontansPlace is decorating early. I’m more in the holiday spirit this year so maybe it is appropriate. Last year the whole holiday thing was a chore. I’m not feeling that way this year so here’s hoping that it will be a very special season in our new state!
Now off to ….yep, you guessed it…work. Er, no that will be later I guess. Time for church first!
I HATE THE NEW iGOOGLE!
If it ain’t broke, DON’T FIX IT! I loved iGoogle. I had my news feeds, my Google Reader blog feeds, breaking news, spellcheck, translator…tons of tools right when I opened my browser. I had tabs for world news, educational info, and other things that I like. Google gets a wild (read idiotic and obnoxious) hair to go changing things! WTH! Instead of tabs at the top they have tabs on the side. I don’t like my tabs on the side! It takes up room that is better dedicated to news feeds, it disrupts the viewing pleasure, makes you have to scroll to see your other tabs if you have them expanded and leaves a blank spot if you don’t expand them. It is a complete waste of space! Give me back the old iGoogle! Try googling “I hate the new iGoogle layout” and see what you get. It is very obvious that the change is not popular. Did I miss a memo somewhere that said this was coming? Am I *gasp* not staying techno-informed?!?! What happened here? Why is iGoogle ignoring all the “I hate the new iGoogle” posts in their forums? Bring back the old iGoogle, or give us the option to opt out of the new sucky version. If they don’t I’m going to have to find a new homepage. Anyone use My Yahoo? I’m open to suggestions.
Just in case you didn’t get the picture, I HATE THE NEW iGOOGLE!
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