Digital_Synergies

Twitter Tool Kit

•July 10, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: this post is a bit messy, half from PC and the rest finished on my phone in bed. Apologies.

Finally had some time to blog.

I found a few cool twitter tools in my travels worthy a mention:

Ping supports over?40 social networking sites and they’re adding more all the time.?

“Between our straight forward posting methods and advanced custom triggers, we make it easy for you to post your messages exactly where you want them to go.”

http://www.twhirl.org/

Some of twhirl?s features:

runs on both?Windows (2000/XP/Vista) and?Mac OSX
connects to?multiple?Twitter,?laconi.ca,?Friendfeed and?Seesmicaccounts
displays?notifications for new messages
shorten long URLs (using?digg.com,?bit.ly,?snurl,?twurl or?is.gd)
cross-post your updates to?Jaiku and many other sites likeFacebook,?MySpace,?LinkedIn and more via?Ping.fm
post images to?TwitPic
search tweets using?Twitter Search and?TweetScan, and follow topics in near-real time with?saved searches
automatically?find tweets mentioning your @username
record a video on Seesmic, and share it on twitter immediately
get your?seesmic updates in real-time using XMPP
English spell checking

There are a lot more things twhirl can do to improve your experience, and it offers?various configuration options to adapt to your personal needs.

http://hootsuite.com

Hootesuite allows management of multiple users and accounts from one app.

You can schedule tweets and it supports metrics to track how many clicks year URLs in tweet get.

You will have to google hootesuite year self as I am finishing this post from my phone.

Posted in convergence, emarketing, emerging media, internet 2.0, media trends, new media, web 2.0

non blackberry data access in 3 easy steps plus apps

•July 10, 2009 • Leave a Comment

Well, finally worked how to by pass the blackberry walled garden data services.

It has been six weeks of frustration and anger, I did want to set fire to my handset for a time.

I can now access apps properly, still no gps.

This work around will allow you to install a variety of apps which you can run from you downloads folder.

I don’t have black berry data and can now connect to downloaded apps via my 3 data plan.

Before I did this work around, I could install apps but they would not run as the blackberry bold handset was lookn for black berrydata.

Which I don’t have, I can now connect apps via my 3 service.

Note this will not activate the gps,the handsets gps only supports blackberry maps.

BTW 3 has a good month to month, no contract iSim deal. It is $50 a mnth for $350 in calls and 1GB/mnth data.

I thnk 1GB of data is a minimum for a smart phone.

Thanks to a bright colleague whose initials are TZ.

Here are the 3 steps:

1. Go to menu/options/advanced options/tcp.

2. Paste in your carriers APN (just call or google your carriers APN) info into the top field, I’m with 3 and here is 3’s APN “3netaccess”. Leave the other two fields blank.

3. Save the settings.

Some good apps and tools:

1. Opera mobile browser.
2. Google apps(Gmail/maps etc)
3. Nimbuzz (aggregates several accounts: facebook, I’m etc)
4. Ubertwitter
5. WordPress for blackberry.

I hope it helps and you share it with others going through the same thing.

Drop me a line if this helped or if you have any cool tips or apps to share, maybe even a gps work around or hack?

Wouldn’t that be nice.

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Tags: access, activation, apn, applications, apps, blackberry, bold, data, nimbuzz, non, uber twitter