Mark Poppen

A sweet way to keep in touch with other web designer is using Twitter. Tonnes of resources, great people and a lot of help.
As anyone else I started tweeting through the front page of Twitter, which doesn’t keep you in the loop really, because you have to refresh manually. After that I’ve tried a few other clients, like Twhirl and TwitterFox.
I saw more and more people using Tweetdeck though. My first encounter with Tweetdeck was, let’s say “meh..”, but that was because I didn’t download it, but just took a peek at the screenshots. Recently I gave it another shot, and actually downloaded it, and I must say: this is the best one yet!

It’s an Adobe AIR application (so it installs cross-platform), and has a unique multi-column way of displaying tweets. 1 Column for the main timeline, 1 for your replies and 1 for direct messages. You can also add columns for 12seconds.tv, twitscoop and search.

Tweetdeck made Twitter my main social network and if you want to reach me, follow me

Tweetdeck is my twit-app of choice

torrent episode downloader

Huh? Doesn’t that sound a bit personal? Don’t worry, I’m not going to bother you with my personal life too much, but I met ted today, and he’s my new BFF.

Since my wife and I moved to town in June, we didn’t bother getting TV here. We have a TV, but it’s just hooked up to my computer. We’ve been talking about getting a satellite reciever, so we can sit on the couch and zap through 3 zillion channels to find out nothing interesting is on, or just watch 0.001% of all the available channels, so no TV for now.

Like I said, ted.. ted is an awesome little, lightweight program that sits in your system tray, waiting for new episodes of your favorite TV-show to come out on a bittorrent network. When it finds a new episode, it opens up your favorite torrent-client and downloads that episode. It comes with a list of preset popular TV-shows, so all you have to do is browse. If there’s a show missing, you can easily add it to the list.
Right now I’m monitoring: Heroes, Bones, Flashpoint, NCIS, Numb3rs and Top Gear.

The only downside of ted is that you can’t download sports-events. I’d like to download formula 1 races as soon as they are available. Maybe in the next version?

Seriously, do!
Dropbox is an online backup system and it saved my butt a few times already. You know, you update a website with a wrong css-file? Don’t act all macho, it happened to you, I know I’m not the only one
Dropbox keeps revisions of your files before you change them, so you can always fall back to a previous version.

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Let’s start off with the obvious question: What’s Xoopit, and why would I want it? In short: It’s awesome. The longer version is a little like this:

We all had a party or a meeting where the question came up: “Oh, remember that picture I emailed you? Can you bring that up please?”. We all had to wade through millions of (spam)emails to find that one specific attachment with the answer to a simple question, and, let’s face it; not everyone saves their attachments the minute they get in to the inbox.

Xoopit makes finding attachments a breeze. When you’ve installed the Firefox extension for Xoopit, your Gmail will get an extra bar above your emails, showing thumbnails of the latest attachments sent to you. You can scroll the bar from new to old, so, if you’re looking for a picture, you should be able to find it in that bar. If not, there’s always the Xoopit serach-box on the left side of your emails.
When you click on an email, Xoopit will show the attachments the sender of that email sent you in the past.

It’s an awesome addon to your Gmail (they are planning to implement it into Hotmail/Live, .Mac, AOL and Yahoo pretty soon), and I can’t wait to give my 5 invites to you.

How can you get an invite? Just leave a dandy comment, and the first 5 commenters will receive an invite to the supplied email address.