How To: 6 Easy Tips to Become a HootSuite Ninja [TNW Lifehacks]

The web-based Twitter client HootSuite has been getting a lot of attention lately. I think the new iOS apps are pretty smokin?, but the web app is really the hub of HootSuite. I?ve been an on-and-off HootSuite user since the early beta days. Lately I?ve been back to using HootSuite as my primary tool most of the time, but I?ve always had this sneaking suspicion that I wasn?t tapping into all the power and features that HootSuite had to offer. Yeah, I was right.

Last week I sat down with Dave Olson, Dir of Community at HootSuite, to a little HootSuite schooling. Some HootSuite Ninja tips if you will. Dave showed me some awesome tricks and I had the Flip camera and Camtasia at the ready to record the lesson.

Here are the tips we talked about:

  • Searching with location so you only get the tweets close to you
  • Dragging and dropping into the message bar to start a tweet
  • Drag and drop to make and add to lists
  • Filtering columns by Klout score
  • Filtering columns with keywords
  • The presentation view (like this example for ?Harry Potter?

And now for the video?it?s about 20 mins, and I suggest you have HootSuite open in another tab or window so you can follow along:

In the video Dave talks about HootSuite for iPhone with geo-located search and the overlay map, here are shots from my iPhone with those examples:

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Rumor: Nvidia delays dual-GPU GTX 590 to beat Antilles

With AMD's flagship single-GPU Radeon HD 6950 and 6970 cards due arrive sometime this quarter, one has to expect that Nvidia is preparing a new premium offering -- and one would be right, says Fudzilla. The GeForce-maker is readying a graphics card (possibly branded the GTX 590) with two GF110 GPUs strapped onboard, and it could appear "very soon."

According to unnamed sources, Nvidia partners are practically ready to roll, and the company could launch its dual-GPU product before the end of 2010. Unfortunately, that's unlikely to happen. Word has it that Nvidia is waiting for AMD to ship its dual-chip solution, the Radeon HD 6990 (codenamed Antilles), which is on track for the first quarter of next year.


Nvidia currently holds the crown for single-GPU performance with its GeForce GTX 580, and it seems the company wants to ensure a dominate position in the dual-GPU market as well. By delaying the GTX 590 until after the Radeon HD 6990 arrives, it's suggested that Nvidia will have an opportunity tweak its contender before shoving it into the ring.

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Thinking Outside the In-box

Search the Internet, and you'll find hundreds of applications designed to help you collaborate with other people more effectively. But examine your own habits, and you'll most likely find that you use just one piece of software for that purpose: an e-mail client.

You're not alone. A recent Forrester Research study found that 83 percent of business users typically send e-mail attachments to colleagues rather than using collaboration software. According to a recent survey by technology consulting company People-OnTheGo, the average information worker spends 3.3 hours a day dealing with e-mail, and 65 percent of such workers have their e-mail client open all the time.

Even Facebook, which once seemed like a likely replacement for e-mail, at least for the young and plugged-in, has acknowledged that e-mail isn't going anywhere. On Monday, the company announced a new messaging service that integrates external e-mail with its own internal messaging system?an admission of the staying power of e-mail, and an attempt to enhance its functionality.

Other software makers seem to have accepted that they'll never pull people's attention away from their e-mail in-boxes. Instead, they're looking to add new collaborative and social capabilities to e-mail.

"It's clear that e-mail is being used and even abused," says Yaacov Cohen, CEO of Mainsoft, a company based in Tel Aviv, Israel, that sells a plug-in called Harmon.ie. The plug-in links an e-mail application to a collaboration platform such as Google Docs, and to a person's social networking profiles, calendar applications, voice over Internet protocol software, and so on. To share a document using Harmon.ie, a user drags it from a sidebar to the body of a message, where it becomes a link. When the recipient clicks on the link, she is taken to the document stored in the chosen collaboration software. Using e-mail alone for collaboration creates confusion and overloads in-boxes, Cohen says.

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Reid to Push to Allow End of ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell?

Senator John McCain of Arizona, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, led his colleagues in blocking consideration of the bill in September in part because it allowed the repeal of the ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy. Mr. McCain has not changed his position, and Democrats had been considering stripping the provision to advance the legislation.

But the White House on Wednesday repeated President Obama?s commitment to repealing the ban. In a statement later in the day, Mr. Reid said he would bring the bill to the floor, with the repeal language in place. ?We need to repeal this discriminatory policy so that any American who wants to defend our country can do so,? Mr. Reid said.

Senate Democratic aides said Mr. Reid would try to take up the bill sometime in December, meaning after the Pentagon is due to release a report on how it would carry out a repeal. The report includes a survey of active-duty forces and their families, which shows that a majority do not care if gay men and women serve openly.

That report is due on Dec. 1.

Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, applauded Mr. Reid?s decision and said he would fight for approval of the bill.

In a statement, Mr. Levin said that he would hold hearings on the Pentagon report as soon as it was released and that he had asked Mr. Reid to wait until they were completed before trying to begin debate.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has said he would like to see the ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy repealed before the end of the year, but some senior military commanders and some lawmakers in Congress have expressed opposition to ending the policy.

Senator McCain?s wife, Cindy, called last week for ending the policy, appearing in a video for an advertising campaign aimed at preventing the bullying of gay teenagers. But then she abruptly reversed herself and said she agreed with her husband.

The House has already approved legislation authorizing repeal, and Mr. Reid?s decision indicated that Democrats, despite heavy losses in the midterm elections, were not backing down from some top legislative priorities, important to the party?s base.

On Wednesday Mr. Reid announced that he would also push to bring up a bill that would create a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as small children.

Mr. Reid tried to attach the legislation as an amendment to the military policy bill before the midterm elections, but Republicans blocked the bill, in part because they said that he was using it as a political prop to appeal to Hispanic and gay voters in his re-election campaign in Nevada.

In his race, Mr. Reid promised he would try again to pass the immigration measure, known as the Dream Act. And in a statement on Wednesday he said he would try to do so as a stand-alone bill.

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, has been discussing the immigration measure with Democratic colleagues but has not scheduled a vote on it, a spokesman said.

The legislation would give legal residency to immigrants who arrived in the United States before age 16 and lived here for at least five years, graduated from high school and completed two years of college or military service. They would be subject to background checks, could not have criminal records, and even if successful would still not be eligible for financial aid like Pell grants.

In a statement, Mr. Reid said: ?If there is a bipartisan bill that makes sense for our country economically, from a national security perspective and one that reflects American values, it is the Dream Act. This bill will give children brought illegally to this country at no fault of their own the chance to earn legal status.?

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Reid to Push to Allow End of ?Don?t Ask, Don?t Tell?

Senator John McCain of Arizona, the senior Republican on the Armed Services Committee, led his colleagues in blocking consideration of the bill in September in part because it allowed the repeal of the ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy. Mr. McCain has not changed his position, and Democrats had been considering stripping the provision to advance the legislation.

But the White House on Wednesday repeated President Obama?s commitment to repealing the ban. In a statement later in the day, Mr. Reid said he would bring the bill to the floor, with the repeal language in place. ?We need to repeal this discriminatory policy so that any American who wants to defend our country can do so,? Mr. Reid said.

Senate Democratic aides said Mr. Reid would try to take up the bill sometime in December, meaning after the Pentagon is due to release a report on how it would carry out a repeal. The report includes a survey of active-duty forces and their families, which shows that a majority do not care if gay men and women serve openly.

That report is due on Dec. 1.

Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Armed Services Committee, applauded Mr. Reid?s decision and said he would fight for approval of the bill.

In a statement, Mr. Levin said that he would hold hearings on the Pentagon report as soon as it was released and that he had asked Mr. Reid to wait until they were completed before trying to begin debate.

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has said he would like to see the ?don?t ask, don?t tell? policy repealed before the end of the year, but some senior military commanders and some lawmakers in Congress have expressed opposition to ending the policy.

Senator McCain?s wife, Cindy, called last week for ending the policy, appearing in a video for an advertising campaign aimed at preventing the bullying of gay teenagers. But then she abruptly reversed herself and said she agreed with her husband.

The House has already approved legislation authorizing repeal, and Mr. Reid?s decision indicated that Democrats, despite heavy losses in the midterm elections, were not backing down from some top legislative priorities, important to the party?s base.

On Wednesday Mr. Reid announced that he would also push to bring up a bill that would create a path to citizenship for certain illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States as small children.

Mr. Reid tried to attach the legislation as an amendment to the military policy bill before the midterm elections, but Republicans blocked the bill, in part because they said that he was using it as a political prop to appeal to Hispanic and gay voters in his re-election campaign in Nevada.

In his race, Mr. Reid promised he would try again to pass the immigration measure, known as the Dream Act. And in a statement on Wednesday he said he would try to do so as a stand-alone bill.

The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, has been discussing the immigration measure with Democratic colleagues but has not scheduled a vote on it, a spokesman said.

The legislation would give legal residency to immigrants who arrived in the United States before age 16 and lived here for at least five years, graduated from high school and completed two years of college or military service. They would be subject to background checks, could not have criminal records, and even if successful would still not be eligible for financial aid like Pell grants.

In a statement, Mr. Reid said: ?If there is a bipartisan bill that makes sense for our country economically, from a national security perspective and one that reflects American values, it is the Dream Act. This bill will give children brought illegally to this country at no fault of their own the chance to earn legal status.?

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Weekend game deals: Pre-Black Friday sales unleashed

We're just a week away from Black Friday and things are finally starting to heat up. Impulse has cut prices on well over a dozen titles including C&C 4, The Settlers 7, both S.T.A.L.K.E.R games, Dark Void, and Star Trek Online, while EA has reduced Crysis, Mercenaries 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Medal of Honor, and the Saboteur. Direct2Drive offers GTA IV: Complete Edition for $9.95, Microsoft has slashed 50% and 80% off Bioshock 2 and Saints Row 2, and GOG's entire catalog of Ubisoft titles is 30% to 50% off.

Steam
Sniper: Ghost Warrior $14.99 (50% off)
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Map Pack $2.49 (50% off)
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings preorder $44.99 (10% off)

Impulse
Command and Conquer 4 $9.98
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 $9.99
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising $9.99
Company of Heroes Gold $14.99
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom $24.99
Star Trek Online $9.99
Tropico 3 $7.49
Dark Void $9.99
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bundle Pack $9.99
Total Annihilation $4.99
MinerWars 2081 Pre-Alpha $13.95
Sword of the Stars Complete Collection $14.99
Space Rangers 2 $9.99
Master of Orion II $4.99
More...

EAStore
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames $7.46
Crysis $18.71
Crysis Warhead $11.21
The Saboteur $11.21
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 $14.96
Battlefield 2: Complete Collection $14.96
Battlefield 2142 Deluxe $11.21
Medal of Honor $44.96
Medal of Honor Airborne $7.46

Direct2Drive
Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition $9.95
TRON: Evolution $34.95

Games for Windows
Bioshock 2 $9.99
Saints Row 2 $5.99

Good Old Games
30% to 50% off all Ubisoft games

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Weekend game deals: Pre-Black Friday sales unleashed

We're just a week away from Black Friday and things are finally starting to heat up. Impulse has cut prices on well over a dozen titles including C&C 4, The Settlers 7, both S.T.A.L.K.E.R games, Dark Void, and Star Trek Online, while EA has reduced Crysis, Mercenaries 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Medal of Honor, and the Saboteur. Direct2Drive offers GTA IV: Complete Edition for $9.95, Microsoft has slashed 50% and 80% off Bioshock 2 and Saints Row 2, and GOG's entire catalog of Ubisoft titles is 30% to 50% off.

Steam
Sniper: Ghost Warrior $14.99 (50% off)
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Map Pack $2.49 (50% off)
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings preorder $44.99 (10% off)

Impulse
Command and Conquer 4 $9.98
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 $9.99
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising $9.99
Company of Heroes Gold $14.99
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom $24.99
Star Trek Online $9.99
Tropico 3 $7.49
Dark Void $9.99
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bundle Pack $9.99
Total Annihilation $4.99
MinerWars 2081 Pre-Alpha $13.95
Sword of the Stars Complete Collection $14.99
Space Rangers 2 $9.99
Master of Orion II $4.99
More...

EAStore
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames $7.46
Crysis $18.71
Crysis Warhead $11.21
The Saboteur $11.21
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 $14.96
Battlefield 2: Complete Collection $14.96
Battlefield 2142 Deluxe $11.21
Medal of Honor $44.96
Medal of Honor Airborne $7.46

Direct2Drive
Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition $9.95
TRON: Evolution $34.95

Games for Windows
Bioshock 2 $9.99
Saints Row 2 $5.99

Good Old Games
30% to 50% off all Ubisoft games

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Blog - Absorbing Hydrogen Turns Palladium Into A Quasi Liquid

Here's a curious experiment involving palladium, the rare silvery metal well known for its ability to absorb hydrogen. When it is saturated, the ratio of hydrogen to palladium can be as high 0.6, which is why the metal is used to filter and even store hydrogen.

It's easy to imagine that the movement of hydrogen atoms in and out of the metallic lattice has little effect on the material. But that turns out to be wrong, as Akio Kawasaki at the University of Tokyo and friends discovered when they decided to test the idea.

Materials scientists have known for some time that palladium expands when it absorbs hydrogen and shrinks during desorption. What they hadn't known until now is the toll that this process takes on the metal.

Kawasaki and co attached a rectangular plate of palladium about the size of of stick of gum to the side of a chamber so that it stuck out horizontally. They then heated it to 150 degrees C and hung the weight of an apple on the end of plate. Finally, they pumped hydrogen into the chamber and waited while the metal absorbed it.

To their surprise, the palladium immediately drooped under the weight and continued to droop as the hydrogen was pumped out of the chamber and the gas was desorbed. (In contrast, when they hung the plate vertically with the weight hanging beneath, there was almost no stretching at all.)

There's no escaping the conclusion that hydrogen somehow robs palladium of its strength but in a very specific way.

That's a somewhat unexpected result but one that Kawasaki and co think they can explain.

In its pure state, the palladium lattice has a face centre cubic structure but this has to change to allow so much hydrogen on board. Materials scientists know that when this a happens, it can adopt two other structures known as alpha and beta phases as well as a mixture of these phases.

Kawasaki's conclusion is that during this change, the metal atoms are neither held in a rigid solid structure nor able to move in an entirely random way either. This makes it a little like a liquid. In fact, physicists call this type of material a quasi-liquid.

So what they have is a material that they can change into a quasi-liquid at will. That should peak the interest of materials scientists. The next stage will be to study the change using various techniques such as x-ray diffraction and perhaps NMR which should reveal what happens to a substance as it morphs from a solid to a quasi-liquid.

As for applications, just where such a quasi-liquid could be put to good use isn't clear. Suggestions in the comments sections please.

Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1011.2776: Anomalous Deformation Of Palladium Plates By A Small Gravitational Force During Hydrogen Absorption And Desorption

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Weekend game deals: Pre-Black Friday sales unleashed

We're just a week away from Black Friday and things are finally starting to heat up. Impulse has cut prices on well over a dozen titles including C&C 4, The Settlers 7, both S.T.A.L.K.E.R games, Dark Void, and Star Trek Online, while EA has reduced Crysis, Mercenaries 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Medal of Honor, and the Saboteur. Direct2Drive offers GTA IV: Complete Edition for $9.95, Microsoft has slashed 50% and 80% off Bioshock 2 and Saints Row 2, and GOG's entire catalog of Ubisoft titles is 30% to 50% off.

Steam
Sniper: Ghost Warrior $14.99 (50% off)
Sniper: Ghost Warrior Map Pack $2.49 (50% off)
The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings preorder $44.99 (10% off)

Impulse
Command and Conquer 4 $9.98
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 $9.99
Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 Uprising $9.99
Company of Heroes Gold $14.99
The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom $24.99
Star Trek Online $9.99
Tropico 3 $7.49
Dark Void $9.99
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Bundle Pack $9.99
Total Annihilation $4.99
MinerWars 2081 Pre-Alpha $13.95
Sword of the Stars Complete Collection $14.99
Space Rangers 2 $9.99
Master of Orion II $4.99
More...

EAStore
Mercenaries 2: World in Flames $7.46
Crysis $18.71
Crysis Warhead $11.21
The Saboteur $11.21
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 $14.96
Battlefield 2: Complete Collection $14.96
Battlefield 2142 Deluxe $11.21
Medal of Honor $44.96
Medal of Honor Airborne $7.46

Direct2Drive
Grand Theft Auto IV: Complete Edition $9.95
TRON: Evolution $34.95

Games for Windows
Bioshock 2 $9.99
Saints Row 2 $5.99

Good Old Games
30% to 50% off all Ubisoft games

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