October 2010

#FollowFriday – @StephenFry: Author, Actor, Erudite Gentleman, Twitter advocate, and i-Thing Enthusiast.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 29, 2010 Follow Friday

This week, the coveted Follow Friday position has been reserved by your humble editor for that most gracious and witty personage, @StephenFry. In many ways, Mr. Fry has been one of the major formative influences for geeks of my generation. In the early 1980’s as my compatriots were emerging from the hormonal haze of high school, […]

Tagged as: Twitter

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Osfoora HD, for Twitter – Crossover Review with Bird House Rules

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 25, 2010 Crossover

[Tee has informed me that his work is sending him on a business trip this week, and he’s been unable to complete the final edits for the podcast in time to launch along with the review. I’ve included the links to the audio with this article, but I’m afraid that it may take as much […]

Tagged as: Bird House Rules, iPad, Osfoora HD for Twitter, Tee Morris, Twitter

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#FollowFriday – @PhilRossi: Author, musician, dad blogger,

by Scott Roche October 22, 2010 Follow Friday

[For this week’s Follow Friday, I’m turning the reins over to Scott Roche, our new Windows corespondent for the Blog. Take it away, Scott! – Editor] Welcome to my first Follow Friday blog post for the Nifty Tech Blog! I follow a lot of people on Twitter, over a thousand at last count. That seems […]

Tagged as: Twitter

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Help Support The Nifty Tech Blog

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 20, 2010 Announcements

Have you been enjoying The Nifty Tech Blog? We certainly hope so. And we hope that you’d be willing to give something back. We want to bring you more features, more reviews, and better on site services. But we just don’t have the resources to do these things on our own. We’ll continue to do […]

Tagged as: Status, You

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#FollowFriday – @SpiritualTramp: Writer, Kilt Wearer, Podcaster, Member of Flying Island Press, and Nifty Tech PC Expert!

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 15, 2010 Follow Friday

This week I’d like to introduce you to @Spiritualtramp, a talented man in his own right, and the first new Nifty Tech Blog Staffer! @Spiritualtramp, aka Scott Roche, is joining the Nifty Tech Blog staff as our resident Windows PC expert. Going forward you should be seeing a review from him on some Windows based […]

Tagged as: Twitter

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TweetTime for iPad – Crossover Review with Bird House Rules

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 12, 2010 Crossover

Welcome back to another installment of the crossover series with Bird House Rules. We’re almost done with looking at Twitter clients for iPad. This week we’ll be looking at a client that is a relative newcomer to the App store, TweetTime for iPad by Dong-Wook Kim. TweetTime for iPad is a $2.99 purchase in the […]

Tagged as: Bird House Rules, iPad, Tee Morris, TweetTime for iPad, Twitter

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Columbus Day, Observed.

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 11, 2010 Announcements

Just stopping by to let you folks know that nothing has gone wrong. Tee and I have decided to observe Columbus Day this year, so the review for this week will come out on Tuesday. I know a lot of folks don’t do anything for Columbus Day, and a lot of workplaces don’t even observe […]

Tagged as: Status

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#FollowFriday – @riznphnx: Writer, Podiobook Author, and Siren of Second Life

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 8, 2010 Follow Friday

This week’s featured Twitterer (Tweeter? Twitter? whatever…) was a Finalist in the Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster category for the 2010 Parsec Awards. She is a mother of three loyal minions, an author, and a Jazz singer on Second Life. @riznphnx, aka Starla Hutchton, also published her first novel, The Dreamer’s Thread, this summer and […]

Tagged as: Twitter

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Editorial: The Elusive Verizon iPhone

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 8, 2010 Editorial

Once again, or is it still?, the spectre of a new Verizon iPhone has risen from the dead to plague everyone with a fresh stale round of false hopes. New evidence is being pointed to as a clear indicator that Apple will soon announce a new iPhone for Verizon to be released next quarter. Of […]

Tagged as: Apple, AT+T, iPhone, Verizon

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October Poll: Do you want to see more polls?

by Doc Coleman - Nifty Tech Editor October 5, 2010 Feedback

September has come to an end and it is once again time to tally poll results. In September, I asked what people thought of Apple’s new Ping Social network for Music. Apple calls it a great new way for people to discover new music on the iTunes music store. Reader of The Nifty Tech Blog […]

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