Twitter already provides an API but it is currently very limited. It will let you fairly easily change your status, but won’t let you send a direct message.

Comes in cURL. cURL is a very versatile command line utility which is designed to script web pages interactions. As a little demo, I’ll show you how to use it to easily overcome the shortcomings of Twitter’s API.

If you don’t know yet about Twitter, you might want to have a look at my previous article about it.
One of its neat features is the (previously written about) ability to send direct messages to your friends.

This feature will let you easily send free SMS from your computer to any of your friends.

Windows XP

To see multicast group memberships in Windows XP, you can use netsh :

U:>netsh interface ip show joins
Interface Addr   Multicast Group
---------------  ---------------
192.168.139.1    224.0.0.1
192.168.137.1    224.0.0.1
192.168.136.1    224.0.0.1

Solaris (and probably other Unixen as well)

In Solaris, the netstat command can be used :

$ netstat -g
Group Memberships: IPv4
Interface Group                RefCnt
--------- -------------------- ------
lo0       224.0.0.1                 1
eri0      224.0.0.1                 1
$

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If you just want to send a note directly to someone, you can get them via the direct messages web interface.

Damn ! I’m a twitter user myself, but how could I have overlooked that “direct message” feature ? Now you can think of twitter as a unified messaging interface. If the personne you’re sending a message didn’t configure anything then the message will wait to be read on the website. If she configured IM and cell phone, then she’ll get it on the IM when online, on the cell phone when not. Pretty cool !

Mind Performance Hacks is a sort of “self improvement guide”. It offers 75 hacks which will hopefully help you think better, remember better, be more creative … be more mentally efficient generally speaking.

Damn Small Linux (DSL) is a Linux distribution with full blown graphical user interface, which was first designed to be small enough to fit on a business card sized CD-ROM (50MB). It still does, but it does much more !

OK, it’s friday so we can have a little fun 😉

“Addictive Typing Lessons” is a Firefox extension which helps you to practice and improve your keyboard typing skills.

It provides many different sets of exercise with growing difficulty, and collects statistics about your performance, so that you can see how you progress.

If you’re not familiar with keyboard typing, give it a try and you’ll soon type like a professional 🙂

MindMeister is an online mind mapping tool. Even though it is in “private beta”, it seems very promising.[

There are few situations that can lead to a user account being locked out in an Active Directory environment. The following two situations are worth mentionning, because at first sight, it might have seemed like the user account was locked out “for no reason”.

If you sometimes access a network share and check that “remember password” box, then you might have wondered how to delete that password as well.

James Geurts gives us the trick