my first foray into macjournal…and hellotxt
April 8th, 2008
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh…
That?s the sound of relief. After SO many hours of manually exporting blogs from my MySpace, I’ve finally done it. I’ve separated my blogging universe into three separate blogs: notbadbutgood (this one, in case you haven?t noticed), Red House (my film blog, and incidentally, my film production site), and a blogger one for friends and family (if you want that one, just ask me for it).
It just so happens that I’m typing this post on some fancy new desktop software called MacJournal. Well, it’s new to me…and I don’t technically own it yet. I’ve been wanting a good offline editor for some time to work on my posts and keep them organized, and this here is my first test. So stick around if you care as each of these posts will probably be kind of like a review as well. Maybe if the gumption hits me, I’ll blog about which one I chose and why later on.
But this post isn?t about that really. No, this post is to let you know about hellotxt. This fun tool is awesome if you?re like me and you?re trying to maintain several social networks at once. Specifically, it updates the ?status? thing that twitter so wonderfully pioneered and has since been replicated by nearly everyone else. Feels good to be the first, don?t it twitter?
So it’s a web-based microblogging tool that spits out whatever you put in there to tons of different sites. MySpace, facebook, twitter, Pownce…if you can think of it, it’s probably there. Saves TONS of time. What I don’t get is why twitter and hellotxt don?t merge. I mean seriously, if I could twitter and it gets spit out like hellotxt style? Dang.
The only downsides that I’ve found with hellotxt is that yes, it’s truly web based. No widgets or ability to post from other devices like IM. There is a mobile browser version that is semi-reliable on my BlackBerry, though admittedly I haven’t tested it on other phones/devices. It keeps giving me http errors, so I’m guessing it has to do with the fact that I’m using a WAP dealio. Or maybe I’m full of it and it has nothing to do with that.
Bottom line…hellotxt rocks the house dope if you need to update your status across several of your social networks.
Best part? Yeah, it’s free.
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