23/04/2008 In Desktop Goodies by Steven
I just updated to the newest version of Alert Thingy (1.3) that I found about from a post on TechCrunch when I got home just now and I gotta say this is getting much better. Not only have they added Twitter support to the point Twitter messages are displayed along side FriendFeed messages but […]
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17/04/2008 In Desktop Goodies by Steven
The big news today - for FriendFeed users at least - is that twhirl now supports FriendFeed. I first spotted the news when I turned my monitors on this morning and my eye was caught by a message on Twitter from Corvida from SheGeeks where twhirl had released an update that now had support […]
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16/04/2008 In Web Goodies by Steven
Benjamin Golub of RSSmeme fame just posted a link in FriendFeed that will let you personalize RSSmeme using your FriendFeed friends list. By adding in your FriendFeed username RSSmeme will list all the posts your FF friends have made.
While not earth shattering it is kind of a cool idea bringing personalization to yet another service […]
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16/04/2008 In Desktop Goodies by Steven
For all you FriendFeed folks waiting on the seemingly daily improvements to desktop apps for FriendFeed today is update day for Alert Thingy. With this update we now have some themes along with Twitter posting. While the themes do make it a little easier to read it still doesn’t fix the problem of the font […]
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15/04/2008 In Web Goodies by Steven
Aviv is at it again folks with a new script that let’s you filter your friends on FriendFeed into Groups. As Bret from FriendFeed said - Holy crap . you are more productive than we are as he called the new script Seriously amazing.
Now if I was a Firefox user I would be probably […]
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14/04/2008 In Desktop Goodies by Steven
I want to like this app I really do and with the newest release that came out this morning the Howard/Baines crew dealt with one big UI irritation by allowing users to turn off the background opacity. However until they do something to let us change the font sizes used in the alerts it is […]
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13/04/2008 In Desktop Goodies by Steven
So Alert Thingy has been released to the wild and anxious FriendFeed users who where waiting patiently; or not so patiently, for it to arrive can now play with it to their hearts content. While Frederic of The Last Podcast and Sarah from Sarah in Tampa are lukewarm to say the least in their assessment […]
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11/04/2008 In Desktop Goodies by Steven
So we have the first of what will probably be many desktop clients for FriendFeed now that they have released their API for developers to muck about in. While Alert Thingy is still in development Sobees has released their desktop client called bTittleTattle and to but it simply it reminds me of some of […]
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11/04/2008 In Web Goodies by Steven
I don’t pretend to know what the hell Greasemonkey is or why Firefox users love it so much but those who know its inter workings are often able to create magic for Firefox users when it comes to certain things. Some of this magic is evident within the FriendFeed community with the number of Greasemonkey […]
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10/04/2008 In Desktop Goodies by Steven
Just spotted in FriendFeed for those of you that are waiting for the Alert Thingy desktop client for FriendFeed (click for larger view)
And for those of you curious about the link (http://tinyurl.com/5cqfqc) Jeremy posted it leads to the following screenshot
Now quit drooling on your keyboard.
Conversation Tags: FriendFeed, Alert Thingy
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