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TweetShrink is another tool that I’ve found to be very helpful in frequent tweeting. It takes your original tweet and simplifies phrases into their shorthand versions to minimize the size of the tweet and fit inside of the 140 character limit. You can post directly to Twitter through TweetShrink.com, or you can use an app [...]


For all you iPhone/iTouch users who are hooked on Twitter just like I am, and who’ve found that Twitterrific 2.o is probably the best Twitter client for the iPhone platform, you’re probably angry that Twitterrific was affected by the Twitpocalypse. Well IconFactory rush-released Twitterrific 2.2, which fixes the fatal error in API access. Download the [...]


Wordpress.com blogs have always lacked the feature of adding a custom favicon to a blog, which minimizes the possible level of customization. For those who don’t know what a favicon is, it’s the logo or picture you see next to the name of the website in your browser’s location (address) bar or tab bar. For example, the default Wordpress.com favicon is a big white W in a blue circle with a drop shadow.

But to change that, Wordpress has come up with a new and brilliant idea: Blavatars!!!


Apple has placed many restrictions upon its iPhone and iPod Touch products, one restricting emoticons. To get around this, you can either jailbreak your device or follow these steps:
 
 
1. Download this vCard file onto your desktop.
2. Send the file as an attachement to an email account on your device’s Mail app.
3. Open Mail on your [...]


WordPress has released version 1.1 of their iPhone app for viewing blogs and posting to them. I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time, but it turns out that it’s been out since August!
Find out more and download it at: http://iphone.wordpress.org/
W00t!
-Maximz2005


As I watch President-Elect Barack Obama give his victory speech, tears appear in my eyes, as Obama explains the change America needs. He is one of those people who can give such a touching speech that it provokes tears. Barack Obama has just concluded his speech, met with hearty applause.
As we look back at these [...]


CHICAGO, Illinois – Barack Obama is about to give his victory speech in Chicago, Illinois at 11:35 PM EST, November 4th 2008.
I will keep you posted as information comes in.
-Maximz2005


The Xbox 360 has just lost ts overall best-selling console position in the US to the Nintendo Wii, with 10.9 million Wiis sold since the Wii was introduced 20 months ago. That is surprising, and it’s horrible! How could the Wii outsell the X360? I’m starting to cry…


Next week’s New Yorker issue features a very controversial cover picture, according to Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Google News, and the others out there. The picture itself decipits Obama, dressed as a Muslim, “fist-bumping” his wife, who has an AK-47 slung around her back, with a painting of Saddam Hussien on the wall behind them [...]


I have just found out that Starbucks released not just the Vivanno yesterday, but the Starbucks Sorbetto as well. The Sorbetto is basically a yogurty drink made with Pinkberry fro-yo. It is only available in a few stores (not in my region unfortunately), and people say it gives them a brain freeze (kind of like [...]