Alpesh Nakar – SharePoint Consultant's Blog

I have downloaded the TweetDeck app for the iPhone and am impressed. I have been using tweetie for a while now, but I think TweetDeck will (probably has) take(n) over!

View the Full Album of shots taken on my iPhone!

TweetDeck Desktop Version

In addition to the iPhone App, TweetDeck has also released a new version of TweetDeck for the desktop, with lots of new features including sync with the iPhone app and in the cloud.

To quote from the source, highlights of TweetDeck  Read more... (446 words, 1 image, estimated 1:47 mins reading time)

All ye Windows Live Messenger’s, grab 30 free emoticons.

 All you have to do is open a chat window and select the packs. I found them on this web site. I am not sure if you will see it too. Have a go and let me know

Is here! Code named Windows Live Folder, Windows Live SkyDrive has been announced officially.

If you didn’t know, you had to be in U.S to be able to get Windows Live Folders (which you could easily be in by changing the regional settings )

However, the good news is that it has been made available for India and U.K. Wow that’s cool.

New Features:  Read more... (158 words, 2 images, estimated 38 secs reading time)

• An upgraded look and feel — new graphics to go along with your new features!
• “Also on SkyDrive” — easily get back to the SkyDrives you’ve recently visited

Doors are open! Get in quick! What’s with Windows Live Folders?  Read more... (283 words, 4 images, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)

gMail certainly changed email management. Having been straddled with measly 2 MB mailboxes, unless you chose to host them professionally or used ISP-of-the-day provided mail boxes. Then if you did use ISP mail boxes, you had to worry about forwarding, etc. Seriously, how did we manage without gmail? I guess we did manage, but that is because we had no options and we had to keep mailboxes fit and trim

For me, I have been using my personal domain nakars DOT com since 2000 – self hosted at home, giving me the flexibility of imap, so I wasn’t too worried. For junk, I used variety of web-based providers and was never a fan of Hotmail. Trust me. I had couple of yahoo ids for trash mails.

And then gmail happened! Definitely looks leave a lot to be desired, but you have ways of getting around that. If you use gMail and Firefox, you are better off, customizing the looks and the works. The works = customization, integrating Google Reader in your mailbox. IT’s all about technology! Yes, its the scripts that drive gMail and as such the customizations are possible.  Read more... (1001 words, 4 images, estimated 4:00 mins reading time)