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The Twitter Wonder

Thanks to zeroinfluence and his excellent blog for “lending” this image

Never stop absorbing new informations. Twitter is the embodiment of this motto, a self marketing toolI’ve been speaking about in the past. I find it very useful to discover things on the net that I’d never be able to find out myself. I’m currently following a lot of designers and no day has passed without some new trick coming out of their hat or some new features / upgrades that were made available for my favourite apps. It’s quite useful, very simple to use and you won’t lose as much time as let’s say Facebook and the subsequent trashing of stupid notification emails of all kinds. If you decide to dump facebook because of this or the recent changes in their TOC and policy, and you decide to embrace twitter…I’m with you ;)

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Promoting your music online, or the big last.fm guerrilla marketing plan…

I’m by no ways an expert in the topic of music promotion and I’m just writing this to relate my experience with online music promotion on music networks. I’m writing new stuff as I figure out things about the dark ways the internet could help you publicize your music online and, as I previously stated, I think the most innovative music social network out there is last.fm. I therefore apologize with the casual reader if I focus so much on last.fm to even consider doing a single, lengthy post on the subject…please forgive me, I’m pretty sure I’ll be just scratching the surface of such a huge topic, so please bear with me if I indulge too long. Last.fm rocks. Period.

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Movies: Crank 2 High Voltage

For those of you that love fast paced action movies I’ve got good news: Crank 2 is out this April! (in the United Kingdom, I presume)

The Original Crank was great in my opinion, it’s the closest you can get to a Grand Theft Auto videogame transposition to the Big screen. The sequel might be even funnier, given that the original cast has been involved (most notably Jason Statham and Amy Smart) and from what I have seen in the trailer, the style of direction (by mostly unknown to the masses directors/writers: Mark Neveldine/Brian Taylor) looks very similar to the prequel, or even more frantic (if humanly possible :) ). I’m happy to wait for this one to come out in some file sharing site, err…sorry I meant Movie Theather ;) . I suggest you keep an eye open for this movie in 2009.

All the Best!

Simmessa.

Spaz, the ultimate twitter client !

I’ve got fresh news for the ones among you using Twitter (don’t you know what twitter is? check it out here). Until now I’ve been using the Twitter website to make my updates or sometimes the useful twitter gadget on gmail ’cause I didn’t really need anything else plus I’m keeping many browsers open all day long and that felt natural to me. Well all this up to now, I’ve been searching for better alternatives out there and stumbled upon this top5 by DailyApps. Spaz blew me out! It’s an Adobe Air application so that will maybe make you feel a little dizzy until you figure out how to add air to your arsenal of web browser plugins. The one shot install works in less than 1 minute and the app is truly well made and has all the feature you’ll ever ask to a twitter client, unless you would like to send files to your twitter “contacts” (a soon to be added feature I hope).

Check it out, and, by the way:

Dump Facebook

Now more than ever…

All the Best!

Simmessa.

*UPDATE*

It looks like SPAZ users are having some kind of issues with the way Twitter is limiting API queries to the service, I guess it isn’t a specific SPAZ problem but it’s due to the huge popularity Twitter is getting since the latest Mac Kenote… head here for more info

Relay: The Ajax file manager done right!


I’ve been looking for a fancy ajax file manager for quite some time now, but it’s been hard so far to get a free viable alternative to plain old ftp. C’mon guys I think it could be a good time to come up with something better than the File Transfer Protocol, with all its quirks and odd behaviours. But you’ll all realize this has been the dawn of a new era: everybody’s using rapidshare these days, or one of its very good alternatives (Megaupload, 4shared and filefactory, to name a few). I think an ajax file manager would be a nice addiction to those of you guys owning personal servers and not willing to share their private files with the world.

Enters Relay.

Relay is a wonderful piece of ajax code written with the aid of the prototype ajax toolkit.

Relay is still in beta, but it does a wonderful job of uploading / downloading and managing files on your private server, let’s check out some of its features:

  • drag-n-drop files and folders
  • dynamic loading file structure
  • upload progress bar
  • thumbnail view, including pdf
  • multiple users & accounts
  • And I can tell you everything works smoothly for a beta, and it’s very usable too.

    Wanna try out a live demo?

    check it out here

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