Okay, so although I do like a good bit of social networking... it can get seriously overwhelming at times. And, because I like an easy life... I like finding things that'll make my life easier (naturally!)! The problem with social networking is that while you're only a click away from what you're friends and contacts are up to... opening up various browser windows / clients to see what's happening... well... as far as 21st Century Laziness goes... it's kinda tiresome. Basically, for a while I've wanted my own little pot to store all my social networking treasures in. Something that keeps them together, gives me a quick way of checking and updating them... and doesn't gobble up memory on my ailing laptop.
Soooo... my latest toy for making life easier comes in the form of '
digsby'.
Might give this one a try. I went for Flock for a while until I got tired of the continual whirring of my laptop fan as it struggled to keep itself cool as it strugged to feed the resource hungry Flock app :).
ReplyDeleteCurrently using google desktop as there are nice widgets that support my studies. Google books many of which are digitised and support in text search, google scholar, rescuetime to track how much time I spend on different apps and a neat link to the OU online library downloaded from the OU library website. Oh, and of course twitteriffic.
Twitteriffic lets me sneak social networking in so RescueTime doesn't spot it ;)
Mmmm - Google desktop - yup... love Notebook, Reader, Scholar and all their little friends. And yes about Flock being resource-hungry. I do like it, but it doesn't like me terribly much!
ReplyDeleteNow I'm going to have to look at Twitteriffic... oh the curse of being addicted to trying new stuff! :o)