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Slinging with Slingbox and Tweeting withTweetdeck

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Slingbox is a Place Shifting device from SlingMedia that lets you watch your Audio-Video content from anywhere in the world, be it Desktop, Laptop, PDA or even Smartphones using SlingPlayer App. All you need is an internet connection at your base location which is your home, where you would have connected the slingbox to the broadband router along with AV inputs. You can then fire up the SlingPlayer app on your mobile or ur laptop and watch your favorite programs…doesn’t matter if you are in LA or in Timbuktu 🙂

The best experience with the slingbox is made possible by the superior AV streaming quality generated from their proprietary algorithm called Slingstream (was codenamed Lebowski)…no surprises that it killed Sony’s Location free TV. Believe me its not the usual streaming that you see on the internet…All the Cable companies were freaked out after it became a huge rage and has cult following across the world..

Slingbox and tweede

I took the snap while I was watching Champions League football match between Arsenal vs Celtic and at the same time also tweeting on Twitter using Tweetdeck…

A Comparison between TwitterFox vs TweetDeck APIs to access Twitter

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As a keen follower of Twitter, I started off with the native platform on web. But the curios spirit in me wouldn’t allow me to settle and just for the heck of it thought of experimenting with some of the API’s that are out there.

Currently, the two very popular APIs to access twitter are Twitterfox and TweetDeck. Twitterfox is a plugin to the popular browser Mozilla Firefox, whereas Tweekdeck is a standalone application which requires Adobe Flash and Adobe AIR.

Here are the Cool and Not-so-Cool features of each of these tools:

Platform: Windows XP

TwitterFox (v 1.8.3)
Cool:

      – Blazingly fast updates
      – Simple structure
      – Updates, Mentions and Direct Messages are available
      – Customize the tweet update interval, font size,
                 – Multiple Twitter accounts

Not-so-Cool:

      – Plugin designed only with Firefox
      – Only the last 20 tweets are visible
      – Need to toggle between multiple twitter accounts for updates
                 – No Search options

Twitterfox on Firefox

URL: www.twitterfox.net

 

TweetDeck (v 0.26.4)
Cool:

      – Support for multiple Twitter accounts side-by-side!
      – Amazing customization options and features like:

– Grouping of followers
– Multiple Twitter Accounts from a single window
– TwitScoop, Image upload using TwitPic, YFrog
– URL shortening service from Bit.ly, Digg, tinyurl, etc
– Integration with 12seconds.tv (share short videos)
– Integration with Twitcounter
– Integration with Facebook
– Easy access to TweetDeck support
– Upto 200 tweets in a coloumn

Not-so-Cool:

      – Standalone application that has be to downloaded and installed (not a plugin)
      – Requires Adobe Flash and AIR
      – Slow to update when compared to TwitterFox
TweetDeck Screenshot
TweetDeck Screenshot

URL: www.tweetdeck.com

If its simple and faster twitter updates that you are looking for, then Twitterfox might suit you (provided you are using Mozilla Firefox as your browser), but if you would like to have additional features like integration with Facebook, multiple account support, grouping and etc then Tweetdeck might just suit you.

However, I will leave it to you folks for which one to go for upon your needs. Do let me know your thoughts. You can follow me at @terminalfix