TweetDeck, DVDPedia, Mozy & Tip’d

Flexin’ the geek, so stand back.

I’m loving TweetDeck. If you use Twitter, you should have it, because it opens worlds of possibilities.

TweetDeck Screenshot

You can manage columns of follow posts, replies, DMs, and search keyword streams. First saw #Britrock using it and since it has become quite the tool. Highly recommend. I know that it has changed my appreciation for Twitter which heretofore has been lackluster.

DVDPedia – OK, I have maybe a couple hundred DVDs, not as many as some, and I really don’t buy them anymore. My collection represents pretty much everything I want to see, again. However, I hate shuffling through them, opening a case, putting them into the player and then getting to a point where the image freezes. My player is really old. So I’m contemplating moving to digital and turning a MacMini into a media server with a small SAN of a couple of terrabytes. Enter DVDPedia. Basically, an iTunes-like DVD library app for the Mac, it has a Front Row plug-in so you can browse your collection ON THE TV SCREEN IN COVER FLOW. AND LAUNCH. MPEG VERSIONS. Meaning Ripped. Happy am I. Best part? Search on Amazon, find your DVD, then drag the image into DVDPEdia. It will grab all the movie info from Amazon and add it to your library, along with a cover image. The taxonomy geek in me is already busy applying waves of tags. Only $18. Highly recommend.

DVDPedia

Mozy – I’m using MobileMe for sync and storage in the cloud, though not for email or a web presence. it’s OK, mostly I use it for core documents like resumes, some product management stuff. For backup of my main media libraries – hundreds of gigs – I went with Mozy, an online service that charges me $5/mth for unlimited storage. Not a bad deal and it does what it does well. The Mac client isn’t as full featured as the PC client – and I wish they would address that! – and it took a couple of weeks to successfully complete a 30gb backup, but it’s promising. If, like me, you are on your 3rd or 4th drive in the past 2 years, you might want to look into a service like this. Note: it isn’t S3 or the EMC route, so you can’t do much with it.

Tip’d – I like to geek on economics theory and argue Marx vs Keynes with the best of them. If you are too, then Digg probably is a little too Dittohead for you. Try Tip’d! Some great article links and discouse is a little higher. So far.

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