I love Twitter, its just quite simply awesome.
Even more, I love Tweetdeck. I use it on my work PC, my iMac, my MacBook Pro and on my iPhone. Why do I use this client above and beyond anything else?
Simple, its because I *LIVE* in lists. I find it the only way to keep track of who is tweeting what. I have lists for friends, lists for news, technology, sport, work, location, celebrities. (I even have a list specifically for Joss Whedon-related celebs!). This is where TweetDeck comes into its own. It allows me to display every list I want in a separate column in one display and just scroll across the lists and scan down to see new tweets.
I'm currently facing a bit of a quandary. TweetDeck for the iPhone just isn't doing it for me any more. Sure, from the "viewing lists" point of view, its just as good as its desktop counterpart, but there are two distinct problems. Firstly, there seems to be no way to add people to a list after I start following them. I keep having to go back to the desktop or use Safari to log into Twitter via the web to do this. Secondly, and somewhat more irritatingly, its started crashing quite a lot. This seems to be a known bug, but not one that Tweetdeck seem to have looked to issue a fix for.
So I need one of two things to happen. Either a) Tweetdeck issue a new version with bug fixes and new features (and I have no idea if/when that is on the cards), or b) I have to find another Twitter client for the iPhone which handles lists on one screen as well as Tweetdeck.
So far all of the clients I've looked at have forced me to go through about three screens, just to be presented with a list of my lists, and with no way to see how many new posts I have within them without actually viewing each list individually.
So this is my cry for help - can someone, ANYONE (even TweetDeck) find a solution to my problem?
Internet, you have your orders. Make it so.
Friday, 28 January 2011
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Doctor Who - A Christmas Carol
OK, so its been long enough since the Doctor Who christmas episode aired (and indeed long enough since I last blogged!), so what did I think?
Well, at risk of turning this blog into a) a Doctor Who comment blog and b) a Steven Moffat love-in, I really enjoyed it. Was it the huge action adventure of the Tennant-era Christmas episodes? No. But damn me it was Christmassy with a capital CH! It focused primarily on the Doctor (let's face it, that's what we want) but giving Amy her moment to shine and still kept Rory just hanging in there, as was (for the most part) the way things went during season 5. It was nice to see a more feel-good, character-driven piece for Christmas for a change, especially after last year (just how do you top the return of the Master, the return of the Time Lords and Gallifrey, and the death of the Doctor himself? Certainly not with an attempt at action - Moffat gets this!).
Once again, Moffat was clever - he used his intuitive grasp of how time travel actually works to have the Doctor change the future in a number of subtle ways, without ramming them down our throats.
Was it perfect? No - there were definite things I'd have liked to have improved. Wasn't sure about the whole shark thing (although I did like the whole Santa & his sleigh approach!), and I particularly didn't like how the Doctor and the young Kazran weren't shown getting away from the shark when it first attacks them in the cupboard - it kind of felt like Moffat was saying "Hmm, really backed the Doctor into a corner here. How are we going to get him out of this? No idea - he just will, he's the Doctor". (Yes, I know that it verbally explained what he was going to do, but that whole bit was rather "meh"). I also wanted to have more Amy (don't we all?!), especially after her lack of appearance with the Doctor in the last series of Sarah Jane Adventures, and considering Amy's star-turn in the Season 5 finale, but I can see why Moffat couldn't give her too big a part without diluting the rest of the story. I suspect this is partly why RTD kept his Christmas stories with one-off companions after the first year. Still, Karen Gillan AND Katherine Jenkins together? Bliss!
Overall, I was nicely pleased. A nice character piece that fitted perfectly at teatime on Christmas Day.
Think I'd like an action adventure next year though please, Mr Moffat.
Still, looking forward to the new series starting in the Spring, although not sure I can cope with them splitting it up to show half the season in the Autumn! Argh!
Well, at risk of turning this blog into a) a Doctor Who comment blog and b) a Steven Moffat love-in, I really enjoyed it. Was it the huge action adventure of the Tennant-era Christmas episodes? No. But damn me it was Christmassy with a capital CH! It focused primarily on the Doctor (let's face it, that's what we want) but giving Amy her moment to shine and still kept Rory just hanging in there, as was (for the most part) the way things went during season 5. It was nice to see a more feel-good, character-driven piece for Christmas for a change, especially after last year (just how do you top the return of the Master, the return of the Time Lords and Gallifrey, and the death of the Doctor himself? Certainly not with an attempt at action - Moffat gets this!).
Once again, Moffat was clever - he used his intuitive grasp of how time travel actually works to have the Doctor change the future in a number of subtle ways, without ramming them down our throats.
Was it perfect? No - there were definite things I'd have liked to have improved. Wasn't sure about the whole shark thing (although I did like the whole Santa & his sleigh approach!), and I particularly didn't like how the Doctor and the young Kazran weren't shown getting away from the shark when it first attacks them in the cupboard - it kind of felt like Moffat was saying "Hmm, really backed the Doctor into a corner here. How are we going to get him out of this? No idea - he just will, he's the Doctor". (Yes, I know that it verbally explained what he was going to do, but that whole bit was rather "meh"). I also wanted to have more Amy (don't we all?!), especially after her lack of appearance with the Doctor in the last series of Sarah Jane Adventures, and considering Amy's star-turn in the Season 5 finale, but I can see why Moffat couldn't give her too big a part without diluting the rest of the story. I suspect this is partly why RTD kept his Christmas stories with one-off companions after the first year. Still, Karen Gillan AND Katherine Jenkins together? Bliss!
Overall, I was nicely pleased. A nice character piece that fitted perfectly at teatime on Christmas Day.
Think I'd like an action adventure next year though please, Mr Moffat.
Still, looking forward to the new series starting in the Spring, although not sure I can cope with them splitting it up to show half the season in the Autumn! Argh!
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