Koornk - A Simple Twitter

Awhile ago I discovered a pretty cool service known as Koornk. Koornk is pretty much like Twitter, but it has a cleaner interface, less users, and is not that well known. Personally, I like Koornk, almost better than Twitter, but alas the popularity of Koornk isn't quite there yet. One thing that I love about Twitter is the ability to text your updates from your mobile phone (as a participant of unlimited texting, this is most useful). Koornk does however, allow you to post on Koornk and have it send it over to Twitter. It seems as if it is powered by JavaScript, but I'm not sure on that (someone let me know if you find out). This Twitter-lookalike also has a user suggestion board, hinting that both text messaging service and direct message and IM is coming! If IM hits Koornk, goodbye Twitter!

But what is with the name Koornk? Well apparently it was created by a group of Slovenians and in their words:

The name “koornk” comes from Slovenian language and is a geeky way to write the word meaning henhouse – where the chickens just can’t shut their peepholes.

You can get the full story on Koornk's website.

Nifty Little Color Tool

A lot of the time, when creating a website, one finds that they cannot think of a clever enough color scheme. Though the word "clever" doesn't apply in this fashion, nonetheless it is still difficult to come up with a unique look that is not already popular. It is clear Microsoft has taken the soft Blues, Reds ,and Yellows and Apple has taken the slick glossy/brushed-metal coloring. This little tool from WellStyled allows you to pick the main color you want to have, then complements it with a variety of other possible color combos. Pretty nifty really. Check it here.

Oh yeah, new look....

Hey everyone, just a quick update here, we've moved to Blogger, instead of Wordpress! Wordpress was too limited and we needed some more space, so we've moved here instead. You can still access the old site at theweeklytech.wordpress.com!

Thanks for the continued support!

Don't like Emacs or Vi? Try Out Programmer's Notepad

Though I never have actually programmed in Windows, spare maybe some HTML, I found this little program on the web called Programmer's Notepad. Now I am positive that all of you programmers at one point or another have used Notepad for editing little things (if you forgot something, etc) and have quickly opened the code with notepad and fixed it up. Though it does not have a built-in hex editor, some features include:

• Syntax highlighting for many languages through “schemes”.
• Tabbed MDI interface
• Text Clips
• Unlimited number of schemes supported, powerful syntax
  highlighting supporting both user-defined and built-in schemes
• User-defined schemes (XML)
• Word-wrapping

Overall a pretty cool little tool that is free and easy to use. Check it out and let me know what you think!

Twitter Expanding Horizons; well in Japan anyway.

Now, I'm not positive as to what this will trickle down to in terms of Twitter everywhere else, but today they released a site called Twicco which allows a Twitter user to follow (or create) a Twitter group, rather than just a single user/person. Although Twitter Japan is already different using ads, hopefully the group option comes to the universal site, and not the ugly advertising.
The benefits of following a group are seemingly cool, and have quite a lot of potential. Even though Yammer is for businesses, Twitter could replace this, using the group feature to implement tweets for each department of work. Also, gamers could follow a group of updates that they choose to: for example if I like EA's NHL09 and FIFA09. EA could create a group for Twitter that would allow you to effectively "choose" what part of the group you would want to follow. Also, one could group people into "people I know" and "creepers on Twitter who somehow got my name." I would use those groups...no really.

Need Something Defined? Check Out MetaGlossary.

A very definitive source of info.


Though still in the beta stage, MetaGlossary is a pretty great tool. As the title suggests, MetaGlossary defines pretty much anything you can think of (my first submission was "life"), it gave me almost every definition possible. Pretty impressive. It is kind of like Google, except it actually gives you results right there from the metadata of various sites; speaking of Google, this is something they should look into or even buy! There's even a FireFox plugin for it, so go check it out! Nothing like an advanced Web 2.0 dictionary to whet the virtual appetite.

This is Real and Not for Play...

Congratulations Senator-- President Obama.