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We all have heard of the iPad by now, and in short this is what I think about it:

Apple is a niche company, but this time they tried to hit a niche that is too small. the iPad is just simply too limited to become a success. Give us multitasking, then it might just do something good

and of course, my sis is blogging now, about being a mom for the first time and for english readers, a bad translation by google

Today I brought it back, don’t be scared by the “you need to be logged in to comment” it is quick and easy(the registration process is just a login box).

you can even log in with even MORE services now

currently supported:

Twitter

Facebook

Yahoo

Google

Live

AOL

Blogger

OpenID

and Flickr

My Space will be added soon(when I bother to register an app over there as well ^_^)

ps.

This is better for you also, cause I trust your providers so much, I trust that you are human and that you don’t spam my blog, no moderation for you

pps.

Share This! sorry I meant Sociable is also available, see those small icons below each post? click one of the service icons and it will take you to it with a link to that post

a few months ago I posted some twitter bookmarklets for ipod and iPhone, and Sorry to say, but they won’t get any updates any time soon Just don’t have time for it when I work on my new profile portal thorerik.com and the sudden shutdown of my old host(and then return to the old backup host, which is outdated ).

Also posted a youtube video a while back where I explained a idea I had, basically being a more secure version of for example what wordpress is.
The concept code is continusly developing, and I’ll probably open up the source either this month or some time during April (might work on it during the Gathering 8th-12th April, drop by if you’re there, seat 1 @ row 31 )

btw, just quickly back to the project over at thorerik.com, that might(!) also be open sourced, We’ll see

still trying to be active on twitter, mostly end up reading tweets(with over 200 followers and following over 300 there’s a lot of tweets O_O)

also on the plans is to create more tests of apps for iPod/iPhone, as I use that all the time, and think there is way too few tests of actual apps(many write very subjective reviews, I try to be some what objective when I review things )

one review that is also coming up is Safari 4, and Firefox 3.1(now renamed 3.5 according to some news sites), and not to forget final version of IE 8, the beta’s have been very impressive(considering IE7 was terrible).

Also trying to get listed on a norwegian blog listing called Blogglisten.no, and hopefully going to get some more traffic If that happens, more posts will come, and they will be WAY more frequent as a treat to all of you regulars

Last but not least, I will begin to vlog too, as It’s a bit easier, and it’s a bit more lazy :p

Again, thanks to all of you who visit regularly :) <3 you

List of clients I tried:
Tweeter(link)

Tweetie(link)

Twitterfon(link)

Twitterrific (Free/Premium)

Tweeter

This may be the simplest client around, it dose 1 thing, Tweet.

I personally think the idea was good, but the lack of timeline and the ability to view other people’s tweets kind of ruins the whole point with twitter.

The client simply contains 3 fields, username, password and the twitter form.

Unless you only need this single function, steer away from this client.

Tweetie

This client is very advanced, Multiple Accounts support, simple interface, splits replies, direct messages, favorites, and allow you to search for nearby users, trends or just view your own profile.

for $3 this is a good buy

Twitterfon

This client is much like Tweetie, but with a slight different look, and missing a single feature the two other “big guys” got, display the ones you follow’s full name, not just their screen name.

This may be nice, but seriously, they could at least add it as a feature.

It also lack the “trends” feature(thanks to those who mentioned that Twitterfon actually got this feature you just showed that I need to do my research better), but that’s not really bad, consider it’s free and open source(!) it functions well, and is easy to use.

Twitterrific

This is the simplest client of the “big guys”, no support for viewing dm and replies on their own, no trends, but at least it displays your contact’s names.

In Premium you get access to a white theme, not really my taste, but I guess it’s nice for those who like it light.

One thing i really liked about Twitterrific is that it’s ability to adapt to the user, with a setting where you can set it into “left hand mode” where it moves the twitter button to the right side, so it’s easier to access with left hand, also the ability to customize how to open @screen_name (url) is nice, considering I personally preffer twitter.com, not m.twitter.com as I got a iPod Touch and always got ADSL access when i use it.

Overall Twitterrific dose it well, it’s simpler than both Twitterfon and Tweetie, but that isn’t such a drawback

The free version got ads, which is displayed after every 50 tweets, not really that annoying, but my personal preference is ad-free and then it costed me $10, which is kind of stiff for a twitter client.

Overall

Well overall I think all 3 is very good, but if i had to pick 1, that would be Twitterfon, it’s free and advanced, with only a few missing things that you can live without.

out of the two paid, I’d say Tweetie, as it got a lot of features, but lack the pretty interface

Update: There used to be screenshots in this post, but due to some unforseen happenings(hdd falure and host disappearing) they are not available and have been removed from the post, there will be added new and more accurate screenshots, each of the apps themselves also provide screenshots, so check them out in the meanwhile