Development in the world of Twitter is running at breakneck speed and today I’m looking at yet another Twitter client, aptly named Tweetie, which just got released to the world on Monday 20th April, 2009. …

For all those social networking junkies out there who spend hours on twitter, facebook and other online communities and instant messaging platforms, the notion of shortening a long URL is common place. For the uninitiated, …

Amateur Astronomy is a hobby I’ve been engaged with since my early teens. I recall my first encounter with Astronomy after my father bought me a cheap rickety telescope that wobbled and never really focused …

Nambu is the name of new Twitter client recently released in beta form to the public that’s specifically for the Mac user community. It only runs on Mac OS-X and doesn’t yet have a Windows version. It’s also the first Mac based Twitter client I’ve used that’s not Adobe AIR or web based. It’s a native Mac OS-X application and as such looks very familiar and bears a striking resemblance to the Mac finder window. Nambu Touch for the iPhone also exists, although it too is in beta.

The question of this article is, “Why do you use Twitter?”. It’s interesting to hear the answers from various quarters. Some people laugh at the mere notion of Twitter, some simply don’t get it, others use it prolifically and can’t stay off it whilst yet more have started to use Twitter as a tool for business.

On Saturday 4th April, 2009 I attended my third and final night of Spring Moonwatch, organised by the West of London Astronomical Society at the Ruislip Lido. Given last nights experience of setting up in …

Following on from my previous story about the annual Spring Moonwatch event which started in the UK on 28th March, 2009, this is a short update on the third night of observing during Spring Moonwatch …