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- Today's reflection: My life has a lot of amazing, strong, brilliant, wonderful, enthusiastic women in it. LMN will not want for role models. about 5 hours ago from Tweetie for Mac
- Love okcupid's blog so very much, but they are going to get LETTERS... http://bit.ly/b9jMCq about 1 day ago from Tweetie for Mac
- Also, Shanah Tovah to my heeb tweeps. Honey and high fives all around. about 1 day ago from Tweetie for Mac
- Congrats to @beltzner and @shannonprior for making page 3 of the Toronto Star today. Robots FTW. http://bit.ly/aQMxSo about 1 day ago from Tweetie for Mac
- "Well, I'm from Utica and I never heard anyone use the phrase, 'steamed hams'" Still one of my 5 favourite episodes. (http://bit.ly/9Hcev5 ) about 1 day ago from web
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I wonder if it gets tiresome for Google…
… to keep rocking and rocking and rocking.
I refer, of course, to Google Talk. I haven’t gotten on board yet, but for those who are interested, you can download the official client or check here for deets on getting GAIM, Trillian, and possibly other clients up and running. All signs point to it basically being a jabber style implementation server-side, with support for text IM and voice. Seems that all you need (other than the aforementioned usefully-configured client) is a gmail address, email me if you need one of those (does anybody still need one of those?) I think I need to get this up and running RFSN[?].
On another note, I was rather displeased with the new google desktop client. People have been telling me for a while that GD is one of those indispensable-once-you-have-it technologies and I believe the desktop search capability might be. But their new client acts as a very-useful looking sidebar as well, with weather, news, todo lists, and a plugin architecture, I was ready to be quite excited. On inspection though, I find that auto-hide doesn’t work properly (it hides but won’t come back if you have maximized windows) and I couldn’t find an always-on-top switch. I think I’ll write them, they’ve been good about responding to email about search engine things in the past, so hopefully they have people paying attention. As I said, I’m ready to be very hyped about it, indeed to develop for it, but certain things need to work effortlessly or they aren’t worth using at all.
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