kenclark.me » twitter http://kenclark.me A weblog by Ken Clark about technology, e-books, and all things Apple. Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:40:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Create LaunchBar Search Template for Find People Search on Twitter http://kenclark.me/2009/12/create-launchbar-search-template-for-find-people-search-on-twitte/ http://kenclark.me/2009/12/create-launchbar-search-template-for-find-people-search-on-twitte/#comments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:21:07 +0000 Ken Clark http://www.kenclarksblog.com/?p=1463

Ok.  Last one (for now at least!).  Here’s the syntax to put in a LaunchBar search template for Twitter’s “Find People” search:

http://twitter.com/search/users?q=*&category=people&source=users
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I just set up a LaunchBar search template for Twitter.  It is easy.  Just follow the same procedure I outlined in my post on setting up a LaunchBar search template for Gmail, but use the following search string instead:

http://twitter.com/#search?q=*

This just saved me a ton of time!

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I just picked up a Mimo 710 monitor for no other reason than it looked like a really cool gadget and after a couple days am liking it quite a bit. If you’re not familiar with it, it is a small monitor that is USB powered and can be set up in portrait or landscape mode.

I recently set it up as a side monitor just for Tweetie and it feels like it was designed just for that app. Here’s a couple shots of my current setup.

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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Twitter your Flickr

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Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! We’ve launched our Flickr2Twitter integration.

Share your Flickr content either via “upload by email” or feature existing Flickr content in your Twitter stream.

If you’d like to Twitter your Flickr then check out the following three FAQs for easy setup and use:

How do I Twitter my Flickr photos?
Can I post to Flickr and Twitter from my mobile?
How do I Twitter from Flickr?

via blog.flickr.net

Cool stuff. I am glad to see this go live — particularly to post via my phone (although a Posterous purist would say Posterous can already do this and more ;)

Don’t forget to add the Flickr2Twitter email address to your phone’s contacts. Your personal flickr email address will most likely not be easy to remember.

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Every now and then I need to copy text into my Twitter client app and need to know if I am bumping against the 140 character limit.  I wrote this quick applescript to simplify my life.  It counts the number of characters in the clipboard and subtracts that number from 140, so you know if your text is too long, too short, or right on target:

display dialog (”Total characters: “ & (count (the clipboard)) & “ “ & “Remaining for Twitter: “ & (140 - (count (the clipboard)))) with title “Character Count”

The best way to use this (outside of using a third-party app that can trigger Applescripts) is to save it to your ~/Library/Scripts folder after you have enabled the Scripts Menu in the OS X menu bar, so you have access to it from any application.

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