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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Starr

10 04 2008

Example of a Direct Message in Twinkle

Okay, as you all very well know I am a fan of Twitter, the 140 character micro-blogging platform. I also am a fan of the iPhone. Well until now I have been using Twitter via SMS and getting about 1,000 people’s updates via text message….that is until today.

A new iPhone app (for jailbroken iPhones) was launched today called Twinkle. This program reminds me of look and feel of my favorite Twitter program, Twitterific. It auto-updates every few minutes (keeping in accordance with the Twitter API), shows your @’s and Directs with a nice highlight and icon…but here’s the sweet part. It is location aware, so it can help you find people who are twittering anywhere from 1-252,000 miles from you. This uses the iPhones “Locate Me” feature built into Google Maps.

I will be using this great new program, and you should too, over the next few days to see how well I like it, but as of now I think it is the first thing which could totally replace Twitter SMS for me (which last month I had over 100,000 sms’s). Check some of the screenshots after the jump.

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CSS Naked Day

9 04 2008

Well today is CSS Naked Day, and I’m not really sure why the heck I’m participating, but hey why not go with the flow…There is a plugin which automagically has stripped all of the CSS from my site for today only, without impacting the theme. Apparently this is the 3rd year for this “event”, and apparentlyt he event is setup to promote Web Standards. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good ‘ol play on words. It’s time to show off your <body>.

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