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More Twitter apps, mashups and plugins than you can shake your greasy stick at! If you have twitter addiction (or a twittion) then this site is for you, Twitdom – The Twitter Application Database.

Browser Plugins

TwitterFox

This extension adds an icon on the status bar which notifies you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a small text input field to update your tweets.

Twitterfox Firefox Add-on screenshot

Install TwitterFox

View all Twitter Browser Plugins

Desktop Applications

Twinja

Twinja is a Twitter client written using Adobe Air. It works on Mac and Windows.

Some features supported by Twinja:

  • Automatic login (remembers your login details)
  • Send messages & replies direct from your desktop
  • Automatic URL & User recognition
  • Quickly view Public/Personal/Featured timelines
  • Double click each message to reply
  • Click on the heartto FOLLOW a user
  • Use Twitter’s normal syntax (such as d user message) etc
  • Resize vertically to fit your desktop surroundings
  • Automatically checks for new messages every 2 minutes
  • Re-login feature for multiple users
Twinja

Install Twinja

View all Twitter Desktop Applications

Mashups

Jobfeedr

Jobfeedr crawls most of the major job boards aggregates these into custom Twitter Channels and feeds jobs to Twitter in real time for by city and job type.

Jobfeedr

View Jobfeedr

View all Twitter Mashups

Mobile

PocketTweets

PocketTweets is a Web-based Twitter client for the Apple iPhone. See the latest tweets from your contacts, update your status remotely, or see what’s happening around the world by viewing the public timeline. — all via EDGE or WiFi. PocketTweets was built from the ground up to support Apple’s new phone platform. To access PocketTweets, open this page on your iPhone.

PocketTweets

View PocketTweets

View all Twitter Mobile Apps

Web

StatTweets

StatTweets enables you to get news, live game scores, standings, rankings, point spread updates, and other stats for your favorite basketball or football team all from Twitter!

From StatTweets:

Most sports-related media outlets that have a Twitter account simply blast everything through a single account. I don’t know about you, but I don’t find this very useful. I prefer Twitter updates targeted at just the teams I’m interested in. And I’m not talking about just a news feed. It needs to be as if each sports team had a twitter account and a stats geek behind the scenes tweeting interesting stuff. That’s exactly what the StatTweets accounts are intended to do (but it is all automated). Not only can you follow just the teams you are interested in, but you can interact with each account to retrieve team and player stats dynamically.

StatTweets

View StatTweets

View all Twitter Web Apps

You’ve seen them before, funny motivational posters that make you ‘ROFL’, ‘LOL’ or erm…. just giggle… yeah well here is your chance to make your own. This easy Photoshop Action turns any plain picture into one of these posters, with the same styling as the one below. Once complete simply enter your own title and text beneath and you’re done. If you need to know how to install a Photoshop Action read this tutorial.

Photoshop Action Preview

Motivational poster

This is one I created earlier of my partner Zoe.

Download Motivational Poster Photoshop Action >

Credit to Action creator: Bellorinna on DeviantArt

More funny Motivational Posters

This tutorial will teach you how to use actions in Photoshop CS. An action is a set of commands Photoshop will execute once you click the play button on the actions palette.

Depending on the action you can achieve results automatically by doing little or nothing yourself. Photoshop comes with a default set of actions that you can start to experiment with but you can download others from the web by performing an appropriate search for them.

Step 1

Select actions

To open the actions palette, go to Window and click on Actions or press Alt + F9. This will open a new palette.

Actions Palette

Above you can see the Actions palette. Mine doesn’t have the standard set but yours probably will if this is the first time you have opened it.

Step 2

Organising Actions

Actions are organised in folders, each folder can contain multiple actions. To see what’s inside a folder you click on the arrow in front of the folder icon. A list will drop down showing all the Actions.

Step 3

Using actions

To execute an Action you must first select it in the list of Actions. Then you click the Play button and the action will be executed. Make sure to use a copy of your image before trying out an Action.

Step 4

Loading in a new Action

Load in a new action part 2

So you have downloaded some new Action sets but now you need to get them into Photoshop to use them.

If you want to load Actions you have to click on the little blue round button with the arrow in the Actions palette itself. Now you are shown a drop down menu like the one on the right. From this list select Load Actions.

Load a new Action part 3

A navigator window will pop up where you can select the downloaded Actions from the download location. A Photoshop Actions set always uses ATN as it’s extension. Now select the Action and click Load.

Once you have down this a new folder will appear in your Actions palette which you can select and use. That’s all folks, enjoy!

For those people who have been on Planet HD 189733 b for the past two years and have never heard of a website called Twitter then this post may pass you by…

Twitterfox is a very useful Firefox Add-on that allows you to use Twitter without you having to visit the website.

Twitterfox Screenshot

Twitterfox Firefox Add-on screenshot

Long Description

This extension lets you know your twitter status.

The extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar that notifies you when your friends update their status. Also it has a small text input field to update your status.

If you have a problem with TwitterFox, follow and send a tweet on Twitter to @TwitterFox

Works with:

  • Firefox: 2.0 – 3.1b2

Useful…

  • at work if the boss is about
  • for immediate update alerts
  • for sending a quick tweet
  • if work has restricted access

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