A goddamned nerd, over-twisted geek, cycling on event horizon. A student of Theoretical Physics and film appreciator. Dreams about a Quantum Theory of Gravity, erratic, does not bite people, makes fun of himself, thinks too much rather than acting, sucks at simple things and makes crazy complex designs.
Now mind you, clicking doesn't work, and the renderers crash like nobody's business, but the other great thing is that the user interface stays running even if they do. Just open a new tab and keep going! It's important to point out that's part of what's taken us so long to get to this point. The WebKit that ships as part of Mac OS X can't run this way -- it took a lot of work to marshall it to do so. In addition, the UI clearly needs much love, but it's an indicator of the clean and simple direction we're heading.
Social networking was not my forte just two months ago, I was not much into it. Just a bit of Twittering here & there and small visits to Facebook, that was all. 2009 changed the scene a lot, I went on being a regular on Twitter and Facebook. Among other things in Social Networking, Wakoopa and Last.fm helped me a lot to share alike.
Back to the days of hackintosh, when I was using Leopard in my PC, I liked an app called AppFresh. It used to fetch all the info about applications I worked with in Leopard and then synchronized them with osx.iusethis.com. The best thing with it was its capability to check if I was using latest version of softwares. Back on Vista and now Windows 7 beta, I thought if there were something with same functionality available in Windows, it would really help to track my applications. After getting through some complicated apps and wasting time on them, I found Wakoopa.com. The concept of Wakoopa is moreover same with that of iusethis.com but Wakoopa interface really rocks, quite Web2.0-esque and fluid. They also have a tracker software to download from their site which automatically starts up while user boots into Windows and track user's application usage and website visit histories while running in the background. One can also add some friends and grow networking in Wakoopa which also enables to check what they are using.None needs a introduction to Last.fm, I just discovered (lame I know, I came so late) its amazing capabilities and connectivity options. A real lot of people is using the service already, so it's likely that you will find your friends are there already; well, I already found the same. Last.fm really shows how music listening experience sharing can be splendid. Add their online radio support in that, we get a winner here.
Twitter is delicious, and essential. But how about a Twitter client? People have thrown a lot of options in the web, especially with Adobe AIR (bandwidth consuming behemoth). I found Chirp (an WPF based app) to be most attractive of them all for Windows but it's downsides are annoying me so much. It would hang without notice and don't know any manners as how to serve a master. So I'm sticking to the web format for now, till I install Mac in my new laptop or buy that iPod Touch 16GB.