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I Got 99 Problems…

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 at 1:04 am
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No, seriously though. When was the last time I made a blog post? I would wager it was some time in June. Too many pages of “Daily Tweets” to sift through. Does this mean I’m not posting Daily Tweet digests anymore? Absolutely not. Deal with it.

I did discover today, however, that someone tried (unsuccessfully) to hijack my Wordpress installation, and I have since upgraded to the latest version. It seems all they did was change the formatting for my permlinks. I searched the posts table in my database for anything fishy, and didn’t find anything. No new administrator accounts, but I did change my password just to be sure. So if you haven’t updated your Wordpess install lately, I would suggest it. Not like they could make it any easier for you.

I installed the hard drive in my LaCinema last night after work. It shipped driveless, and I’ve been watching stuff via the USB host on the front from a flash drive. It is now packing a 1TB SATA drive, along with nearly 250 hours of video. May transfer some music on there too to see how it plays back and see what it displays on the screen.

I am not even going to attempt an update on life, because there have been literally hundreds of tweets to take the place of that. But I will try to update more. No matter how many times I say that, it never seems to work.

To all of you on the Livejournal, I apologize for not reading my Friends List for several months. I hope you are all doing well, feel free to comment and let me know how you’re doing. You might even be able to trick me into reading your updates again. LJ folk, or anyone really, feel free to prompt with with a topic to write about. It would be a great way to get Blog Block going again.

Also of note, it’s officially 2010, and baseball season is now only 3 months away. Which also means that Target Field will be opening in just under 100 days, and outdoor baseball will return to Minnesota.

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Review: ÜberTwitter

Saturday, May 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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Last night, thanks to @RCNunya I discovered a new Twitter client for the BlackBerry Storm. I believe it works on other BlackBerries as well, but he has a Storm too. It’s called ÜberTwitter, and previous to using this, I was stuck with TwitterBerry, which more or less sucked. A lot.

The program is very simple to use, and has a nice clean interface. I imagine that the goal was to make it look like the Twitter home page, which they did a very good job of with the home screen.

As you can see, replies are nicely highlighted in yellow, but one of my most favorite features, is that tweets with links to TwitPic automatically show a thumbnail of the image in the timeline, and if you click on that tweet, you can see the image.

As you can also see here, all the info you need to know about the person is displayed right on the screen when you’re viewing the tweet. You can see nearly all of the information that you would get from viewing their profile on your computer right from your phone. You can also view their followers, and who they’re following right from this screen by pressing the BlackBerry button and selecting it from the menu.

Along with these featuers, ÜberTwitter also gathers location information either from a built-in GPS radio, or a more approximate location by triangulation via the cellular towers that you’re connected to (see it here). As an option, you can also use this location data to update your location setting in your Twitter profile each time you tweet, which is useful for the “near: ___” searches from the Twitter search engine. ÜberTwitter also has a host of other neat screens allowing you to see your Direct Messages and favorited tweets, trending topics, and tweets near you all from your device.

Unlike TwitterBerry, ÜberTwitter also integrates to the BlackBerry OS by adding “follow” and “view timeline” to the menus when you click on a username from text messages or other screens. Additionally, you can configure your device to play an audible alert and/or blink the LED when new tweets are received, and configure a separate setting for replies directed at you. The icon for ÜberTwitter changes slightly, making the umlauts red, and showing the number of new items in parenthesis under the icon.

The official website claims that they plan to make ÜberTwitter available for other handsets as well, but they currently only support BlackBerry OS 4.2.1, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, and 4.7.

ÜberTwitter