May 14th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, Google, RSS
How excited was I when I heard that there was now a Google Reader Adobe AIR application that would let me browser through my feeds outside a browser? Pretty freaking excited! But then I thought "wait - why do I need this?" This doesn’t really help me solve a problem. With Twhirl, for example, […]
May 5th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, Web Apps, social media
Oh dear lord. As if we didn’t already have enough with the war between Twhirl and Alert Thingy (and Feedalizer and bTittleTattle!), here comes yet another AIR app for Twitter/FriendFeed users. This one is from the makers of the Firefox extension, MySocial 24×7, and, like the extension, the app focuses on consolidating your social […]
April 23rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, social media
Well, it’s back to Twhirl. In my excitement to finally have my Twitter stream and FriendFeed stream all in one window, (and de-duped!) I temporarily forgot my obsession with having Twhirl pinned on top of my other windows, something which is especially important when I’m on my laptop. So, it’s back to Twhirl for […]
April 23rd, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, social media
Here we go again -the battle of the AIR apps continues. This time, it’s AlertThingy in the lead. They’ve just released version 1.3 of their popular FriendFeed AIR app, which you can download from their new and improved web site.
The new version of AlertThingy is an answer to my prayers: Twitter and FriendFeed […]
April 17th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, FriendFeed, Twitter, social media
Just posted this on Read Write Web: Today, the battle between the two most popular AIR apps as of late has begun. Yesterday, the FriendFeed AIR app, Alert Thingy, having only just launched on April 13th, was already getting an update - this one to include Twitter support via a built-in "Tweet" button. Not […]
April 13th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, social media
I just saw the new on Deep Jive Interests: AlertThingy has arrived! This Adobe AIR application lets you keep tabs on your FriendFeed, similar to how Twhirl lets you tweet and keep track of your tweets. The app also has a search box, so you find words, friends, etc. in your FF stream. When you […]
March 14th, 2008 | by Sarah Perez | published in AIR, Blogging
TumblWeed is an Adobe AIR/Flash app for bloggers who use the Tumblr blog platform. With TumblWeed, you don’t have to open an web browser and go online to blog - just use this desktop application. There isn’t a WYSIWYG blog editor, but you can drag and drop photos and audio files to upload them […]
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