JournoTwit

Having failed completely to get Tweetdeck working – Adobe AIR not wanting to play happy with Ubuntu – I’m really glad I finally checked out Spode‘s JournoTwit.

JournoTwit, yesterday

JournoTwit, yesterday

Embarrassingly, I had no idea he was such an accomplished coder. This really is a great app, which filters out stories from potential news stories as well as highlighting @ replies, retweets and auto-loading pics. And, there’s a mobile version too.

Even better, it doesn’t require a proprietary format like Adobe AIR to make it work – it’s all done in PHP and Javascript. Of course, it does mean I’m trusting Spode with my login details, but he works for the Telegraph now, so he’s clearly a man of integrity, right?

Linux netbook returns

I haven’t had the time to properly research the claim that four times as many Linux netbbooks are returned as XP ones, but ever since I first heard it, it struck me as malicious PR. I’ve spoken to a couple of people at large netbook manufacturers who refute it, but never seen the actual figures – a little project for later that one.

Today’s link of the day is on a similar subject.

It’s a good example of where citizen journalism falls down. Slashdot reruns the returns story repeatedly and unquestioningly. Today, for example.

Jaunty desktop

This is the Eee now. Decided against a dock like AWN for a change, to try and keep things as low overhead as possible.

The Ubuntu wallpaper will change, obviously…

Overall, the new Jaunty theme is great. And can be cut down for a netbook.

The new Jaunty theme is great. And can be cut down for a netbook.

More on Jaunty

Still the same. 10 seconds to Grub, 20 to login, 20 to desktop. Probably needs a full reinstall when the final version goes live to clear out the custom ACPI scripts and stuff I played around with in the Alpha.

Jaunty beta out

Excitingly, the beta for Ubuntu 9.04, aka the Jaunty Jackalope is out. I’m downloading it to my Eee 901 right now. I have high hopes that finally this is the distribution that will give me the boot time I had with the original Xandros, make all the function keys work, and still be a fully functional desktop.

It’s also very attractive. Screen courtesy of Softpedia.

It looks even better when you delete the gnome panel bars and throw in a dock like AWM

It looks even better when you delete the gnome panel bars and throw in a dock like AWM