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Youtube personal player – review

TomWolf — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 02:02:45 +0000

While browsing around the list of features in YouTube I stumbled across an interesting one. I found out that you can make a custom player of one of your playlists and generate the code to show it on your own page. Let’s see how it works.

Mobile + mail = free Twitter everywhere – reviews

TomWolf — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:06:33 +0000

I don’t tweet through my mobile much since here in Sweden it costs to much to send an SMS to a UK number every time you want to update Twitter. Now I just might start =) I’ve found two services that makes it possible for me to update twitter through mail wich makes it very cheap to update from my mobile.

Mail2Twitter

First I found the Mail2Twitter service wich worked well enough. It updated my status and all I had to do was to mail their mailaddress with my username and….password…in the status and my tweet in the body. It worked but it took 5 min to update and I wasn’t really comfortable sending my password everytime I wanted to tweet.

Homepage
[rating:2.5]

EmailTwitter

Luckily for me I found a second service as well. EmailTwitter has the same service as Mail2Twitter but with a few additions. First of all you can register your Twitter and mail details on their webpage and then you don’t have to send your password when mailing anymore…big bonus. Also EmailTwitter only took 40 seconds to update my twitter status! As if that wasn’t good enough you can also get your timeline or your private messages sent to you easily.

Homepage
[rating:4.5]

TwitThis – Twitter plugin for Wordpress

TomWolf — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 12:53:55 +0000

TwitThis is a plugin that lets your visitor share your content with others. You can use it at your site or as a Wordpress plugin that adds the TwitThis icon to every post. It is pretty simple, someone likes what you write and they press the TwitThis icon wich lets them publish your post over Twitter as a mini url. The installation is very straight forward and the icon looks good =)

Homepage
[rating:4]

Blogging from MSN

TomWolf — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:26:50 +0000

This is posted through MSN messenger using the service imified.com. It’s the same server I use to update my twitter status through MSN. Not the most advanced function in the world but just the fact that it works gives it a pretty high score.
[rating:4.5]

Twitter + MSN = Twessenger – review

TomWolf — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:09:20 +0000

Doesn’t anyone follow you on Twitter? It doesn’t help that you have your twitter status both on your Facebook and in your Wordpress blog? Well now you can finally show your tweets to the world through your MSN status msg =) This application does something I have been waiting for since I started with Twitter and it does it well. One small drawback is that the install is a tad bit complicated but luckily the readme file explains all very well.

Download
[rating:4.5]

Web intergration project update

TomWolf — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:09:10 +0000

My goal is to create a network of application that works together and I thought I’d give an example on how it is going.

I am listening to a song by the excellent group Machinae Supremacy in Winamp.

I chose this song using the Firefox plugin FoxyTune in FireFox (also works in IE). This plugin also lets me see the lyrics, several videos from Machinea Supremacy on Youtube, pictures from their show in FlickrPhotos, their album on Amazon and much more all in just one click.

It also added the nice little signature at the bottom of this post through a button in Wordpress called Signatunes (also works in many other applications).

Using the nifty plugin TwittyTune I then posted the song on my Twitter account.

Twitter Tools then displays my Twitter status on Wordpress as well as updating a post with all the days tweets once every day.

My Facebook profile also shows my Twitter status through a nice application.

All this simply by playing a song that I happen to like.

Also this post is shown on my Facebook through this application and through my notes as explained here and the fact that I posted this is also updated on Twitter automaticly.

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Now playing: Machinae Supremacy – Flagcarrier
via FoxyTunes

FoxyTunes + TwittyTunes – Reviews

TomWolf — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:19:03 +0000

FoxyTunes is a very well made plugin that lets you control your media through Firefox. With a small bar at the bottom of your browser you can control Winamp, Mediaplayer or any media player ranging from Mediaplayer Classic to Xbox Mediacenter. You are also connected to the FoxyTunes database wich lets you find out more about the artist you are listening to with just a few clicks. You can find lyrics, videos on youtube and much more. Another nice feature I wasn’t ready for is a button that was added to WordPress that adds the current song you are listening to as a signature in the post you are writing. (example below) With the extra little plugin TwittyTunes you are also just a click away from twitting about what you are listening to or watching.

FoxyTunes
TwittyTunes
[rating:5]

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Now playing: Lars Winnerbäck – Elden
via FoxyTunes

Tweet your Facebook status

TomWolf — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:23:44 +0000

I’ve stumbled across a page that describes how to use the service twitterfeed to update your Facebook status. It only updates every 30 minutes (less frequently is available as an option) but atleast there is a way.

Tutorial
twitterfeed.com
[rating:3.5]

Xfire profile @ Facebook – review

TomWolf — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:04:31 +0000

Not much of a review as a mention really. There is an Facebook application that allows you to show off your xfire profile. It shows if you are online, how much you have played your favourite game this week and ever. Nothing fantastic but still nice.

Homepage
[rating:3.5]

Chess.com on Facebook – review

TomWolf — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:53:24 +0000

Chess.com is a great page to play chess online for free and the Facebook chess application are now supported by the chess.com engine. We can look forward to more features like tournaments, better chat system and better javascript for the graphics. Due to the lack of intuitivity when starting out I can’t give this application a top score but if you like chess it’s definatly worth installing and wrapping your head around.

Edit: I took away half a star after realising that the engine on Facebook isn’t connected to that on chess.com and thus you can’t play against oponents on chess.com.

Chess.com
Application homepage
[rating:3]