On my PC, I’ve moved from Twhirl to TweetDeck. TweetDeck is a free app that features the glorious ability to spellcheck as you type. It also splits your main feed into topics or group specific columns. You can either have columns fanned out on your screen or resize it according to your preferences.

I’ve only been enjoying it for a couple of days, but so far I like it quite a lot.

On my iPhone, I’ve switched to Tweetie. I love this application!

Tweets show up as bubble conversations. My favorite feature is that it has it’s own built-in Internet browser, so clicking links doesn’t drop you out of the application.

All features:

• Handle multiple twitter accounts.
• View your timeline, replies, direct messages and favorites.
• Browse your friends and followers.
• Post new tweets, retweet
• Reply directly to tweets and send direct messages.
• Follow and unfollow people.
• Mark tweets as favorites.
• Navigate reply chains.
• Inline web browser.
• Post links with automatic link shrinking via bit.ly.
• Upload pictures to twitpic.com.
• Update your twitter location.
• View twitter trends and perform custom searches.
• Save your favorite searches.
• Implements the full twitter API.
• Uses secure connection (https).
• New: Go to User shortcut
• New: Nearby search
• New: Themes and adjustable font size
• New: Bookmarklet support

• I’ve been following the whole Lindsay Lohan being booted off the set of Ugly Betty closely because I like Lindsay Lohan and Ugly Betty and Lindsay Lohan on Ugly Betty, so I was happy to read this post on People saying that the whole dispute rumor was silly. Might be more B.S. but I want to remain optimistic.
• World of Warcraft has reached 11m subscribers. I’m two of them!
• Oh hey, Sarah Connor got renewed. I didn’t know that. I guess the bad economy can be good for some things.
• Will Arnett + Neil Patrick Harris = Win I know nothing about this video game except I want it now.
• Bloody bookmarks… hmm. Cool for Halloween, but kinda weird the rest of the year.

I’m terrible at keeping up with browser-based applications. I hate web-based mail, and web-based RSS readers (though I readily admit that also recently I’ve become totally addicted to Google Reader…) I fail at things like MySpace and Facebook because I simply forget to go. My trick with Google Reader is basically to leave the tab always open. But I don’t want to keep open an additional 902842 tabs just for all the social networks.

So the first thing I did upon joining the Twitter world was go in search of an application that would keep me from having to go to the actual website (cause I hate it).

I’m certain there’s various Twitter apps, but here’s what I use:

PC:

• Twhirl - It’s light, it’s sleek, it sits right on my desktop and keeps me updated on everyones tweets. It handles multiple accounts, and the interface can be changed to suit your preferred color scheme. It lets me do everything I need to do, simply and effectively.

iPhone/iPod touch:

• Twitterific - I had been using Twitterific loyally since I first got my iPod Touch. I admit, the cute bird icon caught my eye. I’ve got no complaints about this application. I’m sure others do because people find things to complain about all the time, but this worked perfectly fine for me. One downside that seemed to bother people: ads. The free version comes with ads.
• Twittelator - I installed this one last night and I’m still playing around with it. I heard good things about it and it’s got some features that Twitterific doesn’t have (that I noticed), like the ability to read general public tweets. I like that it breaks things up into categories, too.

If anyone’s got better Twitter apps to recommend - or any social networking apps! - let me know. I’m always on the lookout for bigger and better.

Anyhoo, thanks to OurStage, I have discovered the following artists/songs:

• “Comfortable” - Rose Gerber
• “Finally” - TreeUnion
• “What They Say About Love” - Kristina Blanchflower
• “Leaving Here” - The Haunted Windchimes
• “Up to You” - Cobalt & the Hired Guns

And I also discovered my favorite song of the moment:

• “Stream of Consciousness” - Jacqueline Stem

I’m so in love with it that I ran off to purchase the whole CD and added the song to my MySpace profile.

TV Shows

• Chuck
• How I Met Your Mother
• Gossip Girl
• Grey’s Anatomy
• Los Hombres de Paco

TV Show pairings

(real and imaginary)

• Sarah/Chuck (”Chuck”)
• Robin/Barney (”HIMYM”)
• Pepa/Silvia (”Los Hombres de Paco”)
• Emily/JJ (”Criminal Minds”)

Fanfic

• “Over Again” by Random_Flores (Pepa/Silvia)

Music

• “In My Arms” - Plumb
• “Better In Time” - Leona Lewis
• “Bleeding Love” -Leona Lewis
• “Cry for You” - September
• “The Rifle” - Alela Diane
• “Oh! My Mama” - Alela Diane

Games

• World of Warcraft (this is a very persistent obsession)

Web Tools

• Flickr - thanks to the 365 Project
• Twitter

Please make yourself at home!