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New vista twitter client: BLU

Eric — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:28:17 +0000

There is a very nice looking, new twitter client written on top of the .net 3.5 ms framework: BLUE.

Demo girl has posted a nice review an a great screencast at :

http://demogirl.com/2009/02/06/meet-the-new-hot-chick-in-the-twitter-neighborhood-blu/

Dr. Michio Kaku

Eric — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:35:44 +0000

This is a very interesting guy, I had been reading up on since he appeared no Scott Hanselman’s podcast. I guess I should order one of his books as well .

Especially the Hanselman interview is a very nice start to get into the subject of the ‘impossible physics’.

Interview at sfsignal.com
Hanselminutes #101
Homepage of Dr. Kaku

Rocketdock

Eric — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:25:03 +0000

Last week I upgraded my motherboard and cpu, and reinstalled windows. I have finally decided to not install a whole lot of crap anymore. Just stuff I really want / use. One of the tools I want to keep is Rocketdock. It’s a bit like MacOs X’s program launcher. It looks very nice, and it’s very handy. You can easily keep the programs you use most often at the top of the screen. Or to the left / right if you want to do so. I am sure I am not using all of the features yet, but for now it’s been working great !

You can get rocketdock at http://www.punksoftware.com/rocketdock.

Launchy

Eric — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:32:00 +0000

The lifehacker has a very nice post on how to get more out of Launchy. In case you don’t know what Launchy is:

Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager.

Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

Lifehacker.com: Take Launchy beyond application launching
Launchy : http://www.launchy.net/

Google Notebook

Eric — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:32:40 +0000

Google Notebook has been out for a while, but I just recently started using it. It’s really very handy if you want to keep track of ideas you have on a certain topic, or doing some research on a topic and want to save urls, and web content and want to access that from multiple places. Sometimes I want to save some work related links when I am surfing at home. Before I used to email them to my Gmail account, but now I save them in my Google Notebook.

As you can see it sits quietly in the bottom of the screen if you have installed the firefox extention. Then you can select a piece of the site you’re looking at, bring up the google notebook and then select add note. Then you can add some text of your own, if you want to, give it a title and you’re set .

So if you havent tried it out, I’d say give it a shot. It’s free anyway, so you can’t go wrong .