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Two days later and the eee pc

It’s two days later and I’m close to touch typing on the asus eee and I’m enjoying the machine just as much. I did try to upgrade to openoffice 2.3.1 from 2.0 and no luck so far. As a result I’m stuck with relying on the cloud instead. One friend found the machine hard to type on. That’s because with this type of keyboard your fingers are bigger than the keys. It’s important to make sure you’ve pressed properly. For long documents it’s still a challenge to use. For tweeting it’s good.

I now have a eeepc

Today i went to buy myself a eee pc during my lunch break and by the time I was heading for home  the machine was recharged and ready to be played with. So far my biggest challenge is the tiny keyboard. Hard to touch type on it. Keep having to be careful to press each key properly. Other than that it took only a few minues per change I wanted to apply and the forums have quite a bi of information. It’s a nice little machine and it’s relatively cheap. It’s also open source. Means tha it should be interesting to see how much I can get done on such a platform. That’s it, enough typing on this keyboard for now.

Twitter are stopping SMS

Twitter are stopping all SMS for many territories due to cost. They don’t need to send sms. If they had an s60 application similar to that by Jaiku they would incur no extra costs. We would simply take advantage of our dataplans to download the messages at any time that the application is running. Worldwide we are going to find that there are a lot of dissapointed users. At the same time the centralised conversation that twitter managed to encourage will spread across a number of platforms. As a result twhirl is a good alternative whilst waiting for things to settle. If the companies can’t behave then we’ll rely on Air applications to aggregate and monitor what’s going on. I already watch seesmic, twitter, identi.ca and friendfeed with twhirl. All this to say something simple. If you want me to keep coming to your site provide me with the best user experience possible. If not then I’ll be as uncommitted as possible. So will everyone else

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More than 20,000 views on youtube

Tonight is the night I will remember as the one where people viewed my youtube stream more than 20,000 times, 8000 of which in the last month. That's me and the videos What I like is the sudden increase as qik finally allowed us to save and treat our videos differently. :-)

Newsgator on the ipod touch

Last night I started using newsgator on the ipod touch and today I’ve come to the conclusion that I really enjoy this app. The reason for this is mobility. With the ipod touch I synchronise the feeds before I leave the computer and at my leisure I can read all the feeds and clip those that I think are relevant for later reading or to be shared. It’s also a nice way of feedreading because it’s small and practical. No laptop to carry around and no need for wifi to view the content.

Three percent of people in Europe use maps on their mobile phone

According to the report, the majority of users – 73% in the United States and 57% in Europe – accessed mobile maps via the handset’s browser. Less than a third of customers in these markets used a downloaded application.

Source In a town like Lausanne it would make sense to use google maps paired with the phone’s gps because there’s municipal wifi you don’t need to agree to for use. As a result it’d be much faster simply to load the appplication. With time and as dat costs go down the trend of using Nokia’s in built maps will evolve…