Just in case if you don’t know by now, Twhirl is an Adobe AIR app which could be used as a desktop client for multiple, insanely-popular microblogging services. It now supports Twitter, FriendFeed, Pownce & Jaiku. And it is to support identi.ca soon, real soon i.e. with their next update or so. NOW SUPPORTS identi.ca

Know Identi.ca ? It could be called as a Twitter-clone with a stated difference - “Unless otherwise specified, contents are copyright by the contributors and available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 . ” That’s it. You now holds a CreativeCommons license for every update you post there.  It’s powered by laconi.ca - an Open Source Microblogging Platform. The whole thing is just 18 days old (as of the time of writing this post) and have already implemented a Twitter compatible API, and now it gets supported by a major desktop client - twhirl, which led people say; “Identi.ca/ Laconi.ca moving at the speed of light”. Impressive, isn’t it?

The latest stable version of Twhirl (0.8.4) supports identi.ca.  Get It Here

• How It Works?
  It work on the basis of “push-updates”. i.e. “Twhirl doesn’t have to constantly connect and disconnect with the identi.ca servers. Rather, the client (Twhirl user) gets the updates from his Google Talk ID, which is set up for notifications, on your identi.ca profile settings.”
  
  You’ll have to enter the account details of both your Identi.ca account and Google Talk account.

  Simply Put, Identi.ca pushes to GTalk (a Jabber client based on XMPP) which pushes it to Twhirl

More details about this could be found here & here. Other sources which are not mentioned elsewhere: Duncan Riley’s Notice at Identi.ca.
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I’ve made some cool updates to my blog configuration.

Yes, the trackbacks are now DoFollow - that means you get a valid linkback from my blog when you trackback to any of my post from your blog. Simply put:
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Marian College, Kuttikkanam, in association with MATRIX (Marian Association for Technical Research and Integral eXpansion) conducts M-CAT, a school level Mega IT aptitude test across Central Travancore, to evaluate the skills of students and prepare them for building a career in the IT Sector.
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I’ve been a regualr reader over at Balkhis.com (Blog by a cool dude, Syed Balkhi, on Wordpress, SEO, productivity and many more cool topics). He has now released an eBook authored by him, named, “How to make a magazine style theme for Wordpress” It’s available for free download here.

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Many of my readers had sent me mails regarding my theme. They were of the opinion that the theme I used till now, is not suited for a regular blog. So, I decided to change it and have a nice ReDesign. And here’s the new fresher, cool, glassy look. This one loads much faster than the previous theme (47 HTTP Requests, though!!)

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We had much OS talks, which at many times, trasnformed into a war of mere fanboys. And the more-than-a-decade-old question of “The Best OS” couldn’t be still answered. Here I share my (short) experience of Linux and have provided a set of killer linux resources, including tools to decide upon ‘which distro suites you the best’ !!

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We have Summize for Twitter and now we’ve got Plurkerati for Plurk.

If you are an active tweeter, you can’t miss Summize, which provides real-time search of tweets; i.e. you can use it to track a keyword and see what/how much people are talking about it. There was a need for a tool like summize which provides a way  to search Plurks made by Plurkers. And, now we’ve got it: Plurkerati.

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