FlockStar!

Flock is so bad ass..It seems I find a new feature on Flock everyday that makes me go “WOW that’s cool”.

_ For example I took this screen shot with Flocks built in screenshot tool that allows you to select clips and snap away.

_ It has a built in Blog editor so I can post to my blog using my browser

_A drag and drop web clipboard manager

_Media bar that streams media from sites like Flickr, Digg, Youtube, your Facebook friends

_A sidebar with all your updated feeds and social networking sites

_side bar listing all your accounts and services that you can click on an automatically be logged into

So if you haven’t tried it yet..dammit try it! I still use Firefox and I probably always will but I love me some Flock now and then.. it’s like my secret little drug…well maybe not that dramatic no..but it’s damn good? I love their My world page it shows me all my updates from my social networking sites. It’s nifty. (see screenshot)

Evil little animation and too much coffee….

I love this evil little animation….I actually watched it for far too long..gave me evil little thoughts

Sorry I have no clue who made it..if you know just let me know..but don’t be a bitch about it or I’ll have to slap the shit out of you.

So anyway..too much coffee…you know Jack and the box has some strong ass iced coffee nowadays…YUM!!

McDonald’s Iced Hazelnut coffee is super Yummy but Jack in the Box’s coffee is stronger by far. :)

Makes me a little shakkyyiieee

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Twitter App Crazy

Here are some of the most popular Twitter apps and tools. I love my twitter. I like twitter because I can keep in touch with all my friends and family all at once and I don’t have to send out 10 text messages a day, I can send out one or two twitter posts and I’m good to go. :) Everyone who says I never call them or write them has now heard from me and everyone is happy…including me. I Love it. Here’s a whole list of Mobile Twitter apps..@ Mashable.com

h1 Twit Bin

Why go to Twitter when Twitter can come to you? Twitbin’s a Firefox extension that nestles all your friends’ tweets into a sidebar. It’s configurable too, and the tiny ad at the bottom of the sidebar is something I can live with. BTW, it works just as well in Flock.

h1 TwittyTunes

If you want to share what you’re listening to with the ease of Twitter, this is the browser plugin for you. It’s a sibling of the popular FoxyTunes extension, and supports dozens of players. So if you’re signed in to your Last.fm player, Twitty Tunes will let your Twitter friends know what you’re listening to. There’s even a social network devoted to the most recent TwittyTunes shout-outs, called Foxy Tunes Twitter DJ.

h1 Twitterment

This one appeals to the statisticians and the buzz crawlers. This charts the ‘zeitgeist’ of what’s being Tweeted about across the globe. You can even see comparisons of one key phrase versus another, and what day of the week key terms pop up most frequently. For instance, here’s one that compares beer and sex. Not surprisingly, beer starts getting popular around Friday.

h1 Flotzam

Flotzam started life as Flitterbook, a showcase mash-up of Flickr, Facebook and Twitter data - developed by Karsten Januszewski and Tim Aidlin for MIX07. It’s available only to PC users as a downloadable .exe or as a screensaver, but it’s well worth having a nose around. For Mac OS X users, check out some of the dashboard widgets collected in the Twitter Fan Wiki.

h1 GPS Twit - update Twitter with your location for iPhone and Windows Mobile.

h1 Twitter-Sync (Yahoo Messenger Plugin) - Keeps your Yahoo! Messenger status and Twitter in synchronization. Update your Yahoo! Status to create a new tweet. Your new tweets update your Yahoo! status. Also keeps track of your twitter friends from the main messenger window with alerts, pop-ups + more…

h1 Twit4Live — A Messenger Plus! Live Script that adds twitter interaction to Windows Live Messenger

h1 Twitter Desktop - A How-To for making TwitterVision your desktop background, watch live tweets while working.(not an app)

h1 MadTwitter — a clon of Twitterrific for Windows which doesn’t require .NET — by Sacha Fuentes

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    Apps and Tools - I can’t live without…

    There are a few app’s, clients and website’s online that I can not live without This is a list of things that make my life at home and work easier..I’ve done this type of post before but a few have changed.

    1. Infranview - image editor, viewer, manager and several other things. This is an amazing program that everyone who uses it loves it. It takes a minute to get used to it but once you do you can’t imagine life with out it. I’ve been using it for 5-6 years..daily. Download Client - Infranview Tutorial
    2. Fotki.com - image hosting provider
    3. FileZila - FTP client
    4. Color Cop - HEX color dropper desktop app (can’t live without)
    5. Clipomatic - Clipboard manager (absolutely can’t live without)
    6. Shareaholic - Social Networking Firefox plugin Shareaholic makes it possible to share, bookmark and e-mail web pages quickly without leaving your browser. (cool and useful)
    7. Semagic Live Journal blogging client - also use as an HTML editor in a hurry.
    8. Windows Live Writer - Blogging client - Posts to multiple blogging platforms
    9. ABC 3GP Converter (converts .AVI movies to .MP4 file format so I can upload movies to my IPod)
    10. Digsby - multiple network chat client I can also post to my Twitter - Checks my Facebook and Myspace updates.
    11. Notepad - write HTML and general blank page for notes and such
    12. Photoshop - We all know what Photoshop does - (can’t live without)
    13. Google Desktop (search for my files, documents, emails and basically anything on my computer)
    14. Gmail - My primary email client. Yep I do not use Outlook at home. I use Gmail.
    15. Wordpress - I use Wordpress to manage and write my Blog - Love it!!
    16. LiveJournal.com - been writing in my journal for 7 years so I guess you can say it is a staple in my online life. Love it. Can’t live without it. Must write in my journal.

    - Web 2.0 and grudge free buttons generator!

    Make a link button in a snap. It’s Free, easy and the end result looks really nice. I use this when customers call in and need a custom button made instead of doing it in Photoshop which I could do but this is so much faster. Very cool.

    Good Eats in Portland - Frozen Yogurt

    If your looking for some new and cool places to eat out in Portland? I found this website that I thought was pretty damn sweet -
    Check out Stumptownlunch.com - Reviews of the hip, cheap lunch spots in and around the Portland metropolitan area   With the economy the way it is I can’t afford to waste my money on crappy food so this site might just come in handy..

    I personally recommend Active Culture a cool little yogurt shop between Morrison and Belmont st, on Belmont. They have the best frozen yogurt..Ever! Frozen yogurt shops are hard to find in the North West it seems especially compared to California.
    Yogurt contains “Probiotics” which simply means “for life” and at the very least I can use that as an excuse to eat lots more yogurt.

    Active Culture
    50+ flavors in rotation - 10 served daily
    Fat Free - Low in calories
    820 SE 8th Ave - Between Morrison and Belmont Street
    Monday-Saturday 11am - 10pm
    Sunday Noon - 9pm

    My favorite flavor is blueberry tart & Vanilla swirl with fresh blueberries on top! 0 YUMMY!

    100 Oldest .COM domain names

    I used to work for Mydomain.com and now I work for another hosting company. I spend a portion of my day registering domain names so I found this pretty interesting but the rest of you..you might find it just plan geeky..sorry.

    A lot of these domain no longer have active website’s. People would kill to own a 2-3 letter domain name nowadays. Which is close to impossible unless you have cash and a lot of it.

    Just a few…

    • 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
    • 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
    • 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
    • 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
    • 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
    • 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
    • 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
    • 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM

    March 1986 was a huge month for registering domain names I guess..

    Check out - 100 Oldest .COM domain names

    Google Lively - The Social Virtual World

    Google revealed a beta version of Lively this summer which is one of its Google Labs projects, and the company alleges it’s only about 20% complete. It’s kinda similar to Second Life, but labeled as a “Chat Experience”.

    You create an avatar and chat with your friends in rooms you design.

    Me and my friend Chris tried Lively together for the first time recently and we both had a good laugh. There are public chat rooms that other people have created or you can design your own rooms, invite your friends over to chat. When you build your own room you can customize it by adding furniture, streaming videos, music and personal photos.  You can also add your room to your web site using an embed code (click here to enter my chat room).
    Google Lively needs to be downloaded to your PC, it requires Windows Vista/XP, Internet Explorer or Firefox. The Lively .exe is pretty small, it’s only 468kb.
    If you wanna see what it looks like before you download it..(watch the Youtube Lively video)
    You can make your avatar perform different animations — like laugh, dance and shout,  and you can also interact with other people in the room by slapping, hugging or body slamming them. These animations alone make Lively worth seeing.
    Lively is alright, it’s not amazing yet but if you take into consideration that it’s 20% done and it’s likely to improve with time it isn’t not so bad and it’s pretty fun. This is Google after all.
    Download - Google Lively (how to install)
    You might need to take a look at the Lively - Getting Started FAQ or at least I did. :)
    Add me to your contact list on Lively - my username is ms_ibdreamy and when I do get on I’ll make sure to come say hello. :)