address book – As Seen Through PeriVision https://www.perivision.net/wordpress An Mobile centric blog ... Full of Tech goodness Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:50:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 4666035 New Facebook feature automatically updates your iphone address book https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2010/01/new-facebook-feature-automatically-updates-your-iphone-address-book/ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2010/01/new-facebook-feature-automatically-updates-your-iphone-address-book/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:00:10 +0000 http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=2556 Read More]]> Just came across this new Facebook feature on my iphone today.  I clicked on ‘update’ but did not select ‘overwrite’ .  What this new feature does is take every one of your phone entries and checks to see if they are also your friends on facebook.  If so, they insert the profile image they have on facebook into the profile image in your iphone address book!  Nice. Even adds a link to their facebook account.  Caution though, if you have lots of entries and lots of people on facebook, this can take awhile, so make sure you are not already low on batteries and can spare the time to let it do its thing.  Once it has going through and you close the app, I cannot seem to find away to get it to work again.  If someone knows how, please share.

{Update} I heard from @jaymandel that it replaced all of this pic AND created duplicate entries.  I’m not sure what story is there.  I checked mine and I did fine some duplicates, but I’m not sure which were created by the program or were my own duplications. Also, if this happens to you, I know that yahoo address book had a deduplicate featrue, so you can sync your itunes address book with yahoo and remove dups if this happens to you. Does anyone know if itunes has a deduplication function for iphone address book?  What about google address book?

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Twittfilter: a twitter address book, scored new follower email … and much more https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2009/03/twittfilter-a-twitter-address-book-scored-new-follower-email-and-much-more/ https://www.perivision.net/wordpress/2009/03/twittfilter-a-twitter-address-book-scored-new-follower-email-and-much-more/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:01:57 +0000 http://www.perivision.net/wordpress/?p=1263 Read More]]> I’ve been working on TwittFilter for quite awhile now, and I think it’s at a level where I can call it Beta.  Not Google Beta, but Beta is the way we used to know it.  Mostly there, but not fully perfect or fully bug free.

Note: With twitter moving to full OAuth, not all features are available at this moment.  Scoring and other user settings should be available soon.

ok, first, what is TwittFilter?

TwittFilter is a web based application that is geared not as a twitter messaging system, but instead, a collection of tools to filter the twitter stream to help you get to the info you want. I started writing this as I’ve found twitter becoming my second email system.  As such, I decided I needed a few email like tools.  Hence the address book, and then a scoring system… And it grew from there.  Many of the little things that really bother me about twitter, and I can see it only getting worse as it grows in popularity, became additional functions that I put into the system.  And there are more to come. 🙂

The three following features are the main highlights so far..

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FriendFilter: New Follower scoring and notification.
TwittFilter will look at both friend/follow lists, recent activity, friend follow ratio (and a few other things) and give you a score from 0 to 5. You can set the min score before you get an email. This service will also send you grouped emails when you get a reply.  More on FriendFilter here.. You can sign up for emails here.
twitterbird_sm Sorted & Searchable Tweets.
There are many great twitter viewing apps out there, but they all seem to have the same limitation. They list the messages in order based on time. We all know a few tweeters who get.. say.. post happy? In TwittFilter, messages are grouped by user and limited to the first 3 only. Your welcome.
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Cannot remember your friends twitter name? Type in a few letters of either their twitter name or real name, and get a list of matches. Then click on their icon or type a message right in the program.

Currently TwittFilter is web based only.  There are some minor issues on the iphone, but I’m working on them.  I detect for iphone ( and one day, BBerry) and have a thin page for mobile devices.  Now again, this is Beta, so if you find any bugs or have idea where a simple change would make it better, please let me know.

..and now.. some screen shots.  🙂

Example email:

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Dashboard view using the ‘Dark’ color scheme.

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Older Layout…

Messages

Messages

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(I) details on a selected tweeter

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Example of searching ‘K’ in the address book

Back the dark theme again..

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3 column Search with duplicate removal

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