Kyle LeBoeuf

I like checking Twitter Search to see what’s trending. Today, of course, most of the stuff that is trending revolves around the Christmas holidays (Merry Christmas, by-the-way), but I saw something else that caught my eye.

Apparently, a really popular Twitter client called TweetDeck pushed out a major update recently, and there were a ton of people that were excited about it. Being always curious about trying out new applications, I decided to take it our for a spin.

TweetDeck is built upon Adobe’s AIR framework, and thus can run on multiple operating systems (at this time: Windows, Mac, and most Linux distros). TweetDeck differs from other Twitter clients in that it seperates tweets into columns based on predefined categories. By default, this is a “All Friends” category, which is basically every Tweet from the people you are following, “replies”, which is self-explanatory, and “direct messages”, which is also self-explanatory.

I’ll embed a screenshot (click to enlarge)

TweetDeck screenshot

TweetDeck uses a fancy mutli-column layout that lets you seperate general tweets, replies, direct messages, and tweets from different individuals. The whole thing works really smoothly and looks great.

I’ve switched over to this application almost entirely for my Twitter usage. I love it.

Kyle

I was browsing my feeds on Google Reader and this popped up thanks to Digg.

A kid flips out Nintendo 64-kid style on a new Wii.

Enjoy

It really irritates me when a couple of analysts post on a few blogs about the potential connections between any Apple decision and Steve Jobs’ health.

Give the man a break, he is human. One day, he will die, just like the rest of us, and the company will learn to live without him.

Steve Jobs is not the only employee of Apple, Inc, nor is he the only innovative employee at Apple. There are quite a few other people at Apple who can continue the Steve Jobs way at Apple, with or without the presence of the charismatic CEO.

posted by Kyle

kyle at kyleleboeuf dot com

Usually, by this time of the year, Apple and IDG have already announced Steve Jobs as the opening keynote speaker of the Macworld Expo, as he has done for the past several years.

But it seems like times are changing, as Apple recently announced that not only is Steve Jobs not delivering the keynote (Phil Schiller will be delivering the keynote instead), but that this will be the last year that Apple exhibits at Macworld, marking the end of an era.

This is likely to have a significant impact on the attendance and importance of the Macworld Expo, since most of the biggest Apple hardware and software developers would take advantage of the masses that are present to see the “Stevenote”. It wouldn’t be surprising to see the Macworld Expo decrease in size and importance, as different companies scale back their presence at trade shows in an attempt to stem the tide in the economic downturn.

Steve is likely to continue presenting keynotes at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) and at exclusive press events.

Wow. This is going to have some big effects on the industry.

kyle [at] kyleleboeuf dot com

I’m LOVING the new WordPress. It adds a lot of built-in functionality that was greatly needed, as a lot of the cooler features were provided by plugins. Not any more!

Now, I can browse for and install plugins from the WordPress dashboard without add-ons, and I can upgrade the wordpress installation itself without the Automatic Upgrade plugin.

And this post? Written with a nifty feature called “Quickpress.” Basically allows me to write new posts from the Dashboard Home. Awesome

Yay for the new WordPress!

Thanks to a coder over at the spanish blog Sociable (link in Spanish), we now have Facebook Connect.

If you are currently logged into Facebook, you should see some information in the widget to the right. If you wish to link your account with this site, you will need to logout and log back in again using the “connect” button that appears in the widget.

While logged in, you can add comments, just like a registered user.

There’s still a few bugs for the developer to work out, so hang tight will the wrinkles are ironed out. Basic functionality should be available.

I figured that it would be a matter of time.

I’ve had my gmail account for quite a few years now, and since I’ve created it, I’ve slowly been moving everything over to it, even my other email accounts. For a little while, Gmail has allowed users to send email as different email aliases meaning I can have email forwarded to my gmail account, and reply to that email with it’s original recipient address.

Gmail also allows you to POP different email accounts. Plus, with the inclusion of video chat, and now tasks, its officially replaced Outlook in my toolbox.

So, in case you haven’t picked up on the news already, Facebook officially released Facebook Connect to all developers and websites that wish to sign up for the service.

TechCrunch has already released their own services, as well as several other websites around the web. Nick O’Neill over at AllFacebook has actually published a handy (work-in-progress) list that contains websites that are live with Facebook Connect.

My question is, where’s ours? While a Facebook Connect plugin for WordPress was rumored to be in development only a few months ago, it never materialized.

Sad…I would love to be able to add Facebook Connect functionality to this site…

I’ll keep you guys updated on that.

In other news, Mac/Apple lovers in the Acadiana area want to pay attention to this site.

Peace

kyle [at] kyleleboeuf.com