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Category Archives: Convenience

Track shipments with Twitter

April 22, 2008 – 9:16 am

pb30 has an awesome thing. You can get updates from UPS, DHL, and FedEx on Twitter.

Here are the simple instructions, taken straight from pb30’s page:

Follow @trackthis - Since @trackthis uses direct messages, you must follow it so it can send direct messages to you. @trackthis will follow you back immediately so that you can send [...]

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Connected to every medium

March 15, 2008 – 11:54 am

The web allows us to keep in touch with our friends in so many ways today. When I log into Facebook, I am immediately greeted with a news feed of activity.

Users can update their status too. So whether you like it or not, you know what they are doing.

Twitter is only status:

A can also [...]

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Addicted to social media

December 21, 2007 – 11:38 am

Something might be wrong with me. My dream sequences go through imaginary Firefox browsers. I am always thinking about publishing my life online. Maybe cuz it’s so easy?
First thing this morning, I quickly added about 20 photos to Facebook which only took about 5 minutes.
Then I went into Flickr Uploadr, and dragged about 60 photos [...]

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Facebook for your iPhone

August 15, 2007 – 12:43 am

I don’t have an iPhone, but now I really want one.
Facebook has launched a slick new interface for the iPhone: http://iphone.facebook.com
It uses Joe Hewitt’s powerful iUi, and it’s even simpler than their web client. You can view your profile, wall, or messages with just one tap. It even has a photo gallery.
I love this simplified [...]

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Easily follow your Facebook friends on Twitter.

July 19, 2007 – 2:22 am

I am always trying to move my friends over to use Twitter to update their status. I love Facebook’s status feature, but I don’t have time to log into Facebook 10 times a day.
I created a Twitter bot to syndicate my friend’s Facebook status RSS feed.
I also really like using Twitterrific, and I already [...]

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Introducing the Bevy

July 7, 2007 – 6:38 pm

Apple’s 2nd generation iPod Shuffle clips on to anything, so why not make it multipurpose?
The guys at mophie recently unveiled the Bevy, one of the sweetest keychains I’ve ever used. Besides being a shuffle holder, it doubles as a keychain, and triples as a bottle opener. Just pop out your Shuffle if you wanna uncap [...]

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