#pickofthewk

I’ve been on Twitter so much over the past week that it almost felt incomplete had I not picked something related to Twitter. But since Tweetbot iOS was already last week’s pick, I couldn’t possibly do it again for its Mac cousin this week. So I picked something faintly related.

Relay.fm launched a couple of months back. Just before its launch, there was a period of about two weeks of emptiness after I lost all the CMD+SPACE & The Prompt shows in my podcast feeds. Waiting week long for just one show ATP felt way “parched”. 

This past week has been especially good. In my chronological listening order:

Upgrade Episode 5 with Jason Snell

They talked about Macworld ending the annual Macworld/iWorld event in January. 

It was a little strange to hear Jason talk about Macworld and IDG from a third party’s perspective.

Then Myke boasted (both during the podcast and on Twitter) about having a co-member of his Relay network actually being invited to the Apple event on 16 Oct.

Analog(ue) Episode 9 with Casey Liss

This has to go down as the best Analog(ue) episode for me so far. 

Myke talked about his resignation from his J-O-B job. Hugely emotional and perfectly fitting of the show theme.

At some points during the show, it got me thinking if I should pursue my “dream” in place of my stable well-paying J-O-B. 

Connected Episode 9 with the gang

This show has always been good since its The Prompt days.

This week Federico was lamenting how much he hates sending his faulty Macbook Air for repairs, besides just spending the money. He hates going to the store, hates the call he’s going to get telling him that his Macbook is ready, hates interacting with people. Even he himself said he’s weird.

At the end of it, Myke convinced him that what he needs is the upgraded Mac Mini. And Fedrico agreed!

At the point of recording, it was still before the Apple event, so they didn’t know the Mac Mini would indeed get upgraded. But it was a pretty certain prediction everyone (including myself) had.

I think it was after I just finished the episode of Upgrade that I tweeted to Myke. And he actually responded. It was nice to get an occasional reply from these famous people I follow on Twitter.

I used to be an avid listener/viewer of Macbreak Weekly on the Twit network. However, after Leo Laporte mercilessly expelled Tom Merritt from the network, I started my disdain towards him. And ever since then, MBW has been relegated to a sporadic listening schedule. And I’m only hanging on because of Rene Ritchie.

But credit where credit is due, I particularly like a segment of MBW where the host and guests share their “picks of the week”.

Before Day One, I often mumbled my Pick of the Week to myself whenever I reached the segment in MBW. But now, I certainly want to have them recorded and re-read in future.

This week my pick of the week is none other than: Tweetbot

Day One would have been my pick of the week, but that would have been too meta for a journal inside Day One, so I thought I should pick something else.

Although I had a Twitter account for some years, I never really understood or saw the point of it. I occasionally fire up the official Twitter client, or when I’m on my Mac, the Twitter website. But I’ve never really stuck onto it or checked it regularly. Until 3 weeks ago, when I downloaded Twitterific. 

I started exploring power user features like Timeline Sync & Unified Timeline and that made me appreciate Twitter much better. And throughout my time in Tokyo, I checked Twitterific everyday. But something felt missing. Everyone in the ecosphere (apart from John Siracusa) almost unanimously say the Tweetbot is the best iOS Twitter client out there. Surely I had to give it a try shouldn’t I?

There I was - on the day I returned to Singapore from Tokyo, I downloaded the iPhone and iPad versions. I have not looked back since.

Twitterific still exists, but only on my Mac. And that is purely because I’ve spent too much on apps lately that I didn’t feel the need to spend another $25 on Tweetbot for Mac.

Some key highlights of Tweetbot:

Timeline sync (also available on Twitterific)

Plugs directly into Twitter DMs

Inline photos display