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5 Great Alternatives to the Twitter Interface

Posted on 25. Feb, 2009 by DavidPierce.

It’s been probably a year since I typed “twitter.com.”

I do use Twitter daily, just not the Twitter site. Sometimes, I use desktop-based applications (TweetDeck and Twihrl are both favorites), and I frequently use the Web to manage my Twitter account. There are a growing number of useful applications for Twittering, and all of them do the job better than the standard Twitter interface.

Here are five ways to tweet that are better than Twitter:

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A Guide to Online List-Making

Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by DavidPierce.

I make lists like you wouldn’t believe- more than I’d care to admit. Lists of things to do today, lists of reasons I’m really fantastic, lists of items of clothes to put on in the morning- you name it, I love making it into a list.

The Web is a great place to satisfy my bizarre love affair with lists. There are a ton of applications out there that help you make lists, in any way shape or form you can imagine. Whether you want your lists to be simple, complex, or far too difficult to be used, there’s a solution for you.

Regardless of the type of person you are, there’s a list-making application for you.Here are the best of the list-makers, by type of user:

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7 Google Chrome Features That Rock

Posted on 30. Dec, 2008 by DavidPierce.

Google, the king of everything, recently released a Web browser called Chrome. It’s young, but rapidly improving, and is quickly becoming the first browser I open on a regular basis.

Even though it’s out of beta officially, Google is still in the early stages of the building of Chrome. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and forgo the “what I wish Chrome had” post. Instead, I’m going to focus on the things Chrome does so well that I’m willing to forget all the downsides, and still use it.

This is both a pro-Chrome list, and a wish list for other browsers (cough FIREFOX cough), features that would send me back to my old browsers.

Here are seven things I love about Chrome, and that I wish Firefox would adopt:

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