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DestroyTwitter
DestroyTwitter is a Twitter client built to run on Mac, Windows, and Linux using Adobe AIR. It is completely free (although you can donate to support it) and is by far the best desktop client i have found for Twitter.
It supports theming, and there a large number of themes already available for download.
All the usual features are there, including:
- Reply to tweets
- ReTweet tweets
- See your replies, sent and direct messages
- Save tweets
- Search twitter
destroytwitter
It is a brilliant twitter client and i definitely recommend it to anyone who is hooked on twitter and needs to get their ‘fix’ all the time! (and anyone else who uses twitter!)
Twibble
Twibble is a mobile client for Twitter. It works on most (if not all) Java enabled smartphones including Nokia, Blackberry, and Sony Ericsson.
It has all of the standard features from a twitter client including:
- posting tweets via wifi, gprs, sms
- auto refresh
- send photos to twitpic (new beta version uploads to Mobypicture.com
- re-tweet (forward) of tweets
You can get the current version here and information on the beta is here here
It is (so far) the best free twitter client for my N95. There are other alternatives that are a bit more polished but they are not free, and twibble still seems to be the best. The beta version adds support for showing avatars and uses less memory (amongst other things).
Go check it out!
Joshua Radin @ Birmingham Academy 2, March 18th 2009
As you can probably tell from the title of this post Joshua Radin played the Birmingham Academy 2 a couple of days ago. It was absolutely fantastic, and was made even better by the fact i got to meet him after the show.
Support was from Maria Taylor who was very good too.
Click below to see photos:
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| Joshua Radin |
Videos:
James Corden ‘talks’ to the England Football Team
Absolute comedy gold! Love it!
Adding Tweets to your wordpress.com blog
I recently signed up to Twitter and wanted to show my latest tweet on my blog here. Up till now i was using an rss feed to show it but it looked really bad. Today i found a much nicer way!
- You need to visit TwitSig and put your Twitter name into the box, then click “Get Code”
- Copy the code into a new Text Widget on your wordpress.com blog.
- If you want to tweak the size of the image you need to change the image source address.
- http://twitsig.com/yourname.jpg to http://twitsig.com/yourname-200×66.jpg (for example)
- Save your changes and view your blog page. You should see your latest tweet appear in an image.
For more detailed instuctions (and a video guide) visit the blog here
Backup settings on s60v3 devices
Upgrading your phone? Just need to wipe it to get rid of niggles? If so you probably want to backup the settings you have on your phone. Below is a list of what settings you can back up and where to find them. To access these you need to have hacked your phone.
| Access Point Settings | C:\PRIVATE\10202be9\persists\cccccc00.cre |
| Profiles | C:\PRIVATE\10202be9\persists\101f8798.cre |
| Web cookies | C:\PRIVATE\101f8530\cookies.dat |
| Notes | C:\PRIVATE\100012a5\DBS_101F8878_Notepad.dat |
| Ngage data | C:\PRIVATE\20007b39\ – folders beginning with 200 |
| Bluetooth | C:\PRIVATE\10202be9\persists\10204dac.cre |
| Bluetooth Paired devices | C:\PRIVATE\100012a5\DBS_100069CC_btregistry |
| Browser Bookmarks | C:\PRIVATE\100012a5\DBS_101FD685_BrowserBookmarks.db |
| Menu Layout | C:\PRIVATE\101F4CD2\Content\appshelldata.xml |
| Menu Layout (Pre FP1) | C:\PRIVATE\101F4CD2\Content\Applications.dat |
| Text Messages | E:\PRIVATE\1000484b\mail2 |
This information was found on ipmart
Hotmail on the N95
Recently Microsoft allowed POP3 access to all hotmail accounts (certain countries at the moment, more will follow). This means that it is now possible to check your emails with the built in email account on the n95 (and other phones).
To set it up go to your Messaging application and scroll down to the Mailbox. If you haven’t already created one it will ask you to go through the wizard. Below are the settings you need:
Incoming Mail Server: pop3.live.com
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.live.com
And obviously a hotmail account!
Once you have completed the wizard you will need to change a couple more settings. If you go into “Email Settings” -> “Connection Settings” -> “Incoming Email” you need to make sure you have the following:
Security (ports): SSL/TLS
Port: Default
Do the same for “Outgoing Email”, and you should be able to view your emails from the main screen by going “Retrieve Email”, then selecting how many to get (New/Selected/All).
If you want to set it up to automatically check your emails you need to make sure you have entered your email address (in full) and password in the incoming and outgoing email settings (the same place as above). Be warned, this may result in a lot of GRPS/data/wifi use so don’t enable this if you are not on an unlimited tariff.
To enable automatic checking go to “Email Settings” -> “Automatic Retrieval” and set “Email Retrieval” to Enabled. Set when and how often you want it to check and you’re all done.
I hope this helps.
Happy Christmas!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
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| From Lickey Hills |
Vista explorer thumbnails fix
I noticed the other day that vista wasn’t showing any thumbnails for 3gp files. I searched around and came across a registry file (.reg) which adds thumbnails to explorer for a large number of media files. An excerpt of the file can be seen here:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.3gp\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}]
@=”{c5a40261-cd64-4ccf-84cb-c394da41d590}”
The only bit of this which is of any interest is the bolded part. This is the part which specifies the file extension. You can find a reg file which ‘fixes’ all main media types below.
This image shows the before and after icons displayed in explorer:
After | Before
Download it here
Use this at your own risk, i take no responsibility for any damage/problems that occur as a result of using this file.
Radiohead – House of Cards
A very cool video made without using any cameras! Go here to find out how it was made.
