The Burnman Experience
26Aug/090

Review: Seesmic Web, web based Twitter client

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While I per­son­ally pre­fer to use a desk­top client to access my Twit­ter account, I do some­times find myself uti­liz­ing Twitter’s web­site to post Tweets to my time­line.  I am not the biggest fan of Twitter’s web inter­face, as it is lim­ited in func­tion­al­ity com­pared to desk­top clients such as Seesmic, Twhirl, and Tweet­Deck.  For­tu­nately, there is alternative.

22Aug/090

Review: TweetDeck desktop Twitter client

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Tweet­Deck is arguably one of the most pop­u­lar desk­top Twit­ter clients cur­rently avail­able.  With the num­ber of fea­tures avail­able in Tweet­Deck, there is a lit­tle bit of some­thing for everyone.

Per­haps that is the prob­lem. In my opin­ion, TweetDeck’s user-interface appears to be a work-in-progress wait­ing to progress as new fea­tures are devel­oped instead.  Recent updates haven’t done much to improve the inter­face, and it cer­tainly could use some love.  The tiny but­tons which are the key to most of TweetDeck’s fea­tures look a bit out of place, and the default color scheme is as dark and gloomy as the Tweet­Deck web­site.  While you can change the color scheme in the set­tings win­dow, the default col­ors are not my idea of a good first impression.

13Aug/096

Review: Seesmic, Desktop Twitter Client

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Though the Seesmic logo may seem a bit car­toon­ish, the soft­ware is noth­ing less than pro­fes­sional.  With a wealth of fea­tures and a fre­quent release of updates, Seem­sic has quickly become my Twit­ter desk­top client of choice.  Not only can you man­age mul­ti­ple accounts with Seesmic, the vari­ety of dis­play modes avail­able make it rather easy to man­age the mul­ti­ple time­lines.  Seesmic will inter­act with your Face­book account as well.

Seesmic makes it easy to share pic­tures from your hard-drive with your Twit­ter fol­low­ers, or you can use your web­cam to snap a pic­ture.  Seesmic offers a vari­ety of image host­ing ser­vices to choose from.  Com­bine this with the inte­grated URL short­en­ing ser­vices and text short­en­ing, Seesmic helps you make the most out of the 140 char­ac­ter limit.