Excla.im: a jabber bot to update your twitter status

Twitter has officially stoped allowing you to update your twtiter status via IM, it’s not convenient enough when you using a computer without any Twitter clients installed in your computer, But everyone has a Google Talk, so it would much better if you can add new tweets via Google Talk…

Although, as I said abobe, Twitter officially doesn’t allow you to update your status via Google Talk, but we have many other ways to do this too. I once introduced identi.ca, which is a same micro-blogging service like Twitter, if you have a identi.ca account, your status posted can be easily synced to your Twitter account. That is to say, you updated your status on identi.ca via Google Talk (identi.ca supports IM), this status will be posted on Twitter too.

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WordPress 2.7 WireFrames

We’re all eagerly waiting for the release of WordPress 2.7. With the cool new features we’ve been reading about 2.7 here at BloggingPro, our final sigh of relief would probably be this cool new way WordPress communicates its 2.7 development “so far”.

Enter WordPress 2.7 WireFrames.

What is it? In a nutshell it is a document that tells us how things are being developed. Ok already…. here’s the link to the WordPress 2.7 WireFrame. A 13-page PDF file which is worth the read if you want to know how the WordPress mechanics are working.

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Very cool Tango Icon Theme for GNOME

Have been used my Fedora 9 desktop for half a year, I really got bored with the default Fedora Themes, especially the default icons theme, so I tried to look for a better one on the whole net, and I was so excited when I found the unofficial tango icon theme. It’s high quality and looks very cool. The Tango team is just the contributor of GNOME icons themes, so their icons have a good visual metaphor for Nautilus and other GNOME modules.

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Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Netbook

I want to buy myself a netbook since Dell released Insprion Mini 9, it’s an 8.9″ netbook with Ubuntu Linux or Windows XP systems as you prefer, only 0.99 kg weight makes it very easy and convenient to carry. What’s the most important is that it’s price is very competitive and favorable, the Ubuntu version is only 2650 RMB, while WinXP version only 3499 RMB as the starting price, according Dell China’s Official Taobao Mall.

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Last Exit last.fm client for Linux

Last Exit is streaming media player for GNOME as a Last.fm client for your Linux desktop. With Last Exit, you are able to listen the songs you shared in last.fm easily.

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