Seesmic CRM available on Android Market.

Posted on 30th August 20118th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

Loic Le Meur the founder of Seesmic who developed the social networking clients is now launching Seesmic CRM at Salesforsce’s Dreamforce conference.

@loic not only has some great kite surfing photos he was once named one of the 25 most influential people on the web. This is no great suprise as he is always available on many networks to talk and help, he’s a REAL communicator.

The new product launched today is for companies to interact with customers on social media.

Seesmic CRM

Seesmic CRM for Salesforce is the best way to manage your Salesforce CRM life in one powerful and simple app.

– Increase your productivity to the max. Spend less time logging information in the office and more time in the field.
– Easily look up information on Leads, Contacts, Accounts and Opportunities before calls or meetings.
– Keep track of what was said by logging phone calls and meeting minutes, and by creating activities and follow-up tasks.

Seesmic CRM for Salesforce on Android – Coming to Dreamforce 2011 #DF11

This is available FREE on The Android Market place now! – https://market.android.com/details?id=com.seesmic.crm

This application should also be coming to iPad very soon

It all sounds very exciting and we wish Loic all the best with this new venture Seesmic CRM.

The death of Old Twitter is upon us! #saveoldtwitter

Posted on 3rd August 20118th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

It’s almost a year since Twitter announced that it was changing to a newly re-engineered Twitter.com They said you will be able to use it as a preview for a few weeks. You’ll be able to switch back and forth for a few weeks to get used to how it works.

I love new things, so I eagerly rushed over to New Twitter, only to be bitterly disappointed with what I saw. So I switched back again, I did try it a few times knowing that the time will come that Twitter will make us change. However I just didn’t like New Twitter so I stuck with what I loved; Old Twitter.

Armegeddon arrives

Then last night, in the dead of the night, we were informed by @twitter that Old Twitter is being dumped for New Twitter.

We knew that it was getting closer to judgement day as the message at the top of the screen lately changed to read.

I know many people that have embraced the change over and they love the new interface. I also know many that are not happy about being made to change to something they don’t like, if its not broke don’t fix it, as they say.

Its not just me, there are hundreds of people complaining on Twitter right now, there is even a campaign to save it #saveoldtwitter

Why don’t we like New Twitter

The stream text is much smaller
The stream text box is not central.
You cannot see older DM’s and they are set out awkwardly.
My main usage now requires more clicks than it did with Old Twitter.
Essentially for me its just the whole new interface, I don’t like to look at it, its too busy and cluttered with things I don’t need.

I agree it has a lot of new handy features, but I don’t need them – if I want to see a picture or a video I will click on it. This is one of the reasons I prefer Twitter over other social networks, its clean, simple and easy to use. Sadly this time is over.

I do like the Related content feature; where you can see additional information related to the tweet or the subject.

Loosing Old Twitter for me as you can tell is not a good thing and I’m not sure if I will grin and bare New Twitter or if I will again start using a different platform such as Seesmic which I use on my Tablet, or Hootsuite which I use at work or Tweetdeck which I have used in the past, or maybe something else.

Things change and we have to get over it, but why should I use something I don’t enjoy, if oldtwitter is really going then I need something else!

Edit: At the weekend #oldtwitter was gone – since then I’ve used Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, New Twitter and something else that was such rubbish we won’t discuss it. I’m not finding the change easy let us just say.

Do you have any suggestions on what platforms are best ?

Also what is it, that you like about New Twitter, or do you just put up with it? Maybe you can convince me 🙂

My first Android 2.2 Tablet PC – IMX515

Posted on 30th January 20118th February 2017 by Michelle Harris

Ever since the Apple iPad came out I have wanted to get my hands on a touchscreen tablet PC. The iPad just wasn’t an option, the most basic one costing £439! I kept telling myself that I didn’t even need a tablet pc, what with already owning an iPhone and iTouch and a desktop PC but I kept looking at pictures of them and thinking well, I haven’t got a laptop.

I was keeping an eye on the budget tablets but they all seemed to have worse specs than the basic cheapo netbook so I played the waiting game.

Christmas was now upon us and I’d decided I’d really like a Tablet from Santa (my BF) so I started looking again. I saw a few that I quite liked and a friend that was also looking suggested one or two to look at as well but as usual they were out of stock – or discontinued! it was Christmas after all. Shops kept offering the Samsung Galaxy Tab while that would have been wonderful the price tag of around £400 wasn’t so fantastic. I just could not justify (BF) paying that price.

We decided to wait and see what the January sales produced but still there was nothing much on the market.

Until the day that my friend told me about the Sonix7 7″ Android 2.1 Tablet, that he’d discovered which was a really good price for the specs. It sounded brilliant and cheaper than most of the budget tablets, I was tempted but I was a bit saddened that the 2.1 didn’t support java or flash. He said to wait to see how he got on with it, so I did. Which was a good thing as it turned out as he had some problems with it, as he tells us here at Wolfiesblog.

However, he informed the supplier, and amazingly they replaced it with a new version that they were just putting on the market, that was only a little bit more expensive but much better. This was an 8″ Android 2.2 Tablet !! which did support Java and flash, still for less than £200. Please note however it doesn’t have 3G only Wifi, but you can get a MIFI pay as you go to use 3G.

Sonix7 8″ Android 2.2 Tablet

Specifications.

OS Android 2.2 PC Requirements Windows XP or higher, Max OS X	Processor / Memory Freescale A8 CPU Speed: 1GHZ Memory: DDR 512MB Hard drive: 4GB NAND FLASH Micro SD card slot	Extras WiFi G-Sensor Built in stereo speaker Flash 10	Connections Standard 30pin dock connector & USB adapters 3.5-mm stereo earphone jack
Display 8″ TFT LCD touh screen, resolution 800×600 HD Movies Support up to 1080P	Pictures JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG Other Google Android Market access, Youtube video playback	Lanuages English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese	Battery Longtime standby with low power consumtion up to 6 hours Built-in 3900mAh lithium
Formats Multi formats supported include: MPEG1, MPEG2, WMV9, MPEG4-SP, ASF, DIVX, H.263, H.264, RMVB, Mov, Mkv, TS, FLV, WMA, MP3, WAV, OOG, AAC, EAAC	Model IMX 515 Weight 460g	Manual English

I really liked the sound of this one, and feeling a little impatient now, I didn’t wait to see what it was like this time, I just ordered it.

Delivery was very speedy.

The size is just great, the screen is big at 8″ and yet you can still easily hold it with one hand comfortably.

What first struck me was how easy it was to set up.

First thing I did was to add my WiFi simple, next it asks you to put in your Google address so that you can access the Android Market place, and you are away adding applications, there are loads of great free applications in the market place too – or you can download from the App store.

I’d never used Android before and I was astounded at its speed, the browser is enhanced using the v8 engine which enables faster loading of Javascript heavy pages. Some sites load 5 times faster than the 2.,. so I’ve read. Applications also open really quickly. Its so much faster than my sons netbook that was over £100 more.

I had to change the keyboard as it had very strange keyboard with a Chinese or Japanese option, and to do this you have to click and hold in the browser search and you can change it to the English Android keyboard.

For me the touch screen isn’t especially responsive, (unlike my friend who says his is) now I’m not sure if that is because I am used to the iphone, and maybe I’m asking too much from a £200 tablet but it does work just fine most of the time, occasionally it takes a few taps. I cannot draw with it however this is too shaky but I can’t draw with my finger anyway as we saw here with the Nokia N900 sketch app ha! I will see how it goes now I have reset it again and that I have now read these FAQ’s.

I have had to reset the unit twice, once when it froze and recently because an application just refused to open correctly. I believe this could be due to compatibilityproblems. The first time I couldn’t find where to reset it so I emailed the suppliers on a Sunday afternoon and they immediately emailed me back. Very impressive service.

One of the problems I had was with Angry Birds crashing, and playing Angry Birds on this tablet is amazing, so I had to have it. Since the reset its been fine, and I am enjoying playing it again. (I’ve recently read that this could be because there were too many things running taking up the 512MB memory, I’m not sure.)

Tweetdeck didn’t seem to be available on the Android Market place which I found strange but I found another Twitter client to use, which I hadn’t used on mobile devices yet and that is Seesmic and I love it, no going back now.

The battery life on this tablet is good too – it keeps going for at least 3hours constant use, having many applications running. It takes about 4 hours to fully charge (less than an iPad) but normally 2hours is enough to get some good usage out of it.

So even though I may have had a few little setbacks with this tablet, I am very pleased, you really cannot complain with the price and the specs – if you want something to just check emails, Twitter, Facebook, play games and surf the web, you can’t go far wrong with this tablet. Although obviously it still does a lot more, with all of the various Apps available, I haven’t got that far yet, but I am looking forward to doing so.

Edit: I’ve had a couple of people ending up here as their flash isn’t working – download Adobe Flash player from the store and you are away.

Update: 24/2/02 Since writing this blog I have had no problems with this Tablet, haven’t had to reset it again, and everything is working lovely, would recommend.

This turned out more of a story than a review but I hope this helps you in deciding what to get if you are looking around for a budget Tablet.

Drawing by me, photo by me, yes I know its awful.