Digital Life Simplified
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You too can have the whole world in your hands!
Sep 21st
In order to succeed in this over- stimulated society, we must learn to keep up with new tools, gadgets, software, and all sorts of products that are constantly being thrown at us. It becomes a hassle and a waste of time to manually keep up with each one. One prime example is my assortment of buddy lists. With different people on AIM, Gchat, MSN (Windows Live Messenger),QQ, and Facebook chat, it is blinding to see so many boxes blinking at me on the computer screen! Luckily someone must’ve felt the same way and had some super smart developers (like the ones here at Minesage [MeshTop]) whip up programs where it can aggregate all your contacts from different applications into one place! Yes, this makes our digital lives simpler. Although we haven’t been around for very long, we here at MeshTop want to provide some valuable tips to help you simplify your digital life!
I’m sure there are a lot of wonderful programs out there, but the two that I use and trust the most are Adium and Disby. I’ll give you a brief description of each one and you can choose for yourself 
For you Apple lovers out there, this is a great alternative to iChat (which you could download chax in order to have the same effect). In addition to the services mentioned above, Adium supports a variety of other services, aggregating everything into one list. You can customize it so that your contacts show up alphabetically, by sections, by groups, however you want them, wherever you want them! For more detailed information check it out here.
For those who are not exclusively Apple users, there is Digsby. Similar to Adium, it accumulates your contacts from various buddy lists so that it is all in one place. In addition, it allows you to check your email and reply directly from your IM window. Not only that, you can receive updates from your social networks like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or LinkedIn. Now you can really say “I’ve got the whole world in my hand.”
Of course, the customization option is complete with both applications, giving you freedom to express yourself however you like!
Here at MeshTop, we are all about saving time and increasing productivity! We’ve integrated Facebook, Twitter and MSN into a Microsoft Outlook add-in so you don’t have to waste time opening all those applications separately. Optimizing your desktop space and your time!
Hopefully you found this post helpful in solving your buddy list clutter! Please check back next week for another tip to help make your digital life simple!
Upcoming MeshTop Release
Aug 13th
As a software product, the most important thing to consider is the user experience – and that has been our focus in the past year’s efforts in developing MeshTop. MeshTop’s release is upcoming and as the development team’s Tester, I’m really looking forward to the release of our product.
Microsoft Outlook is a powerful Office tool that I work with in the office (and many of us work with), in our daily lives. Moreover, the mass movement of Social Networking Services has seen Facebook and Twitter rise up as the two favorites to connect users to friends, family and businesses. Currently there aren’t too many solutions that allow users to access these three communication tools in one client. In many cases I’ve seen many users log on to Facebook and Twitter either through their web-browsers, or Facebook/Twitter clients, and then interact separately with their emails through Outlook. This method requires a good amount of alt+tab juggling (unless you’re fortunate enough to have a dual-monitor setup of course), and can become quite bothersome while trying to keep up to date with these three networks.
The Outlook Meshtop plug-in is a solution to the problem, allowing you to work on Outlook, while also keeping track of Facebook and Twitter interactions with friends simultaneously; [insert cliché phrase here] kill two birds with one stone. Hopefully this should increase your productivity and not become a distraction to your daily tasks!
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