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TwitterFox add-on for Firefox
In fact, TwitterFox feels a lot more like an Adobe AIR-based application like Twhirl or Snitter than a Firefox add-on. The little T icon in your sidebar will display the number of your unread messages. And when you click the icon a window will pop up showing your latest tweets, sorted by Recent, Replies, and Direct messages. You can send a message by typing in the box, and you can include a link by hitting the link button.
TwitterFox doesn't include some of the more advanced tools you'll find in application like Twhirl, such as snipurl integration or a user lookup feature. But if you don't feel like installing Adobe AIR just to use a Twitter client, TwitterFox might be worth checking out.
[via Geek Bargain Bins and Mixx]
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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oiya said 11:45AM on 3-13-2008
Twitter and Firefox have a long relationship. In fact there is something known as fwittering because you can literally put in plugins all over firefox as evidenced by the picture at
http://ltips.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-i-went-from-twittering-to.html
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Robert Lowe said 9:42AM on 3-28-2008
Twitbin appears to be spyware--when active, it phones home to www.quantcast.com (the web site of an "Internet Ratings Service") every time you access a page
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