Spaz a Twitter Client

The second post in the series of the Desktop clients for Twitter and friendfeed will feature Spaz Download Here

Spaz is just a Twitter Client NOT a friendfeed client like some of the others. To start off, Spaz is a very basic yet feature rich program. It will allow you to do just about anything that you would want to do with your Twitter account. It also provides a great UI for you to manage all of your tweets with. You can view all of the different time lines send a DM, reply, of just simply Tweet. It has a character counter as well as a feature to allow you to easily tell if you have read a Tweet yet or not (that wins me over). It also gives you a API report and will automatically tell how often it needs to update according to what the current API limit is. Lastly one of the best things about this program is that it keeps the bugs to a minimum; I have hardly had any problems with it no crashes etc. Watch the review to find out more.

Feel free to comment, let me know what you think about Spaz. Also what is your favorite Twitter client? Or do you just use the web interface?

Twhirl a Twitter Client

Over the course of the next few weeks I am going to be writing posts on all the different Twitter clients. At the end I will merge all the posts together and give them their own page. The first one I am going to demo is probably the most popular, the adobe air app: Twhirl. You can download Twhirl Here



Twhirl is not only a Twitter client, it is also a Friendfeed client. This is nice to just have one program open doing both things for you. Twhirl is just simply a Twitter/Friendfeed timeline on your desktop. You can read all your direct messages and all of the replies as well as the public timeline. One of my favorite features is that when you are reading the latest tweets you can see a star of you have not read and if you have read them the star will go away. This is great for keeping up with all the tweets. You can also tweet from Twhirl. When you are posting a tweet Twhirl has built in URL shortening as well as the ability to add photos to the mix.

That is not without some disadvantages though. One of the main ones (I don't know if this is Adboe Air or Twhirl) is the fact that it is really buggy. I find that it freezes a lot and it has some weird scrolling issue. I would still keep an eye on it though, because it does have a lot of promise.

If you have any comments about Twhirl feel free to leave them. What is your favorite client?

Once again you can download twhirl Here

Manners?, E-mail?, Wha?

I had to do a project in computer class today about some of the rules of etiquette that you need to folow when you are using e-mail here they are:

*E-mail Etiquette-Being polite and using your manners while communicating online through e-mail.

Don’t get to the point to quick. You are sending an e-mail not a text message. Take time to use your words and be polite.
Don’t use text lingo in a formal e-mail. IE. LOL, BRB. This makes you appear to be some kind of texting addict.
Check over the e-mail. When someone gets an e-mail from you and there major misspellings and other grammatical errors it make you come across much dumber then you may be.
When writing an e-mail use your manners, say please and thank you just as you would when you are talking face-to-face.
Be nice in a n e-mail. People can tell when you are getting impatient or in a bad mood by the way you write something. Don’t be too rood in an e-mail. Don’t write in all uppercase letters (I don’t care how cool you think they are). It comes across as you yelling and is not a very good way to write an e-mail.
When sending an e-mail use a formal e-mail address. If your e-mail address is sexymama123@bikini.com then it will not come across to be very serious e-mail. As a matter of fact it will most likely get deleted by the spam filter.
Don’t send a very large e-mail. When sending an e-mail keep in mind that people have limited amount of inbox space and bandwidth. They don’t want to spend 30 minutes downloading your e-mail. Instead of attaching all 10 pictures from your vacation, Upload them to a FREE hosting service such as photobucket or flickr.
Please comment and let me know what you think about those rules also feel free to leave rules of your own.

How to tour Disney World in Google Earth

Did you know that you can now take a virtual tour of Disney World in Google Earth. Well you can. This requires some power behind your system though. While doing this Google Earth will eat up your CPU and RAM.

• To start off with you first need to go to the side bar in Google Earth were you select the different elements.


• Next you need to make sure that you have the 3D buildings turned on.


• Once you have made sure that these elements are turned on zoom in on Florida; specifically Orlando.


• Once you are zoomed in on Orlando you should see a blob of Mickey Mouse ears . Click on one of these.


• It should now pull up a window about what ever you have clicked on. The window should contain a description and a video on that item.


• Also you will find that with 3D buildings turned on you can zoom in and adjust the viewing angle to allow you to see a virtual Disney World

I find that if you look through this before your next trip to Disney World you will know what rides do what and what your priorities are.

You can download Google Earth Here. Be sure to comment, let me know what you think about this. What do you think they could improve.

Google Chrome Features

Just the other day I posted a video about my first impressions on Google Chrome. Now after a few days I am pretty impressed with the new Google browser. I decided to do an outline video on some of the features of Google Chrome compared to other browsers.

• To start off with Google Chrome is the fastest browser I have ever seen. ( faster than Safari)


• Google Chrome is also open source project based on WebKit.


• Google Chrome is well made by Google, and Google is great right?

So what do you have to lose? It is free and a very good browser. Go to Google and download it. Also feel free to comment and let me know what you think about it

I think that i will get some IE users using something else (thank God!). The only people that I don't think would like to use this are the Firefox addicts that love the plugins - otherwise it is an extremely good browser.

Google Chrome

I am going to use this blog temporarily while we wait for Lockergnome.com to update.

I learned yesterday that Google had released a new web browser called Google Chrome Download Here. I really thought that this was a good idea for google so I immediately went to my PC and downloaded it. (no mac version Boo!) Once I ran through the install I began to try out the web browser. The more I used it the more I began to like it. The whole thing is so intuitive I wondered why Apple had't thought about this.

• I love the feature of the address bar. When you begin to type an address rather than just putting the recent websites in the drop down Google Chrome also pulls in web results from Google's very popular search engine.


• The best thing about this browser is that it is very fast at loading pages. It even loads Flash heavy pages very well. I am talking faster then Fire Fox and yes also Safari.

As you might know if you follow me on Twitter I am a Mac geek, so as you can imagine I use Safari as my web browser. Google Chrome (if it was made for mac) would totally win me over. It is just so fast. So watch the video at the top of the page for a demo of the browser. Also feel free to comment and let me know what you think.

NOTE: I am using this site instead of my Lockergnome site for know. Looks like Lockergnome is dead. Also as mentioned in the video I will be making a review on this as I get more time to use it.