-text c-gray-1″ >You can buy pretty much anything from Sears, but we doubt it’s your first-choice destination for server capacity. That’s likely to change if Ubiquity Critical Environments, the company’s IT infrastructure arm, gets its way. The outfit is considering turning old Sears Auto Centers into server farms that’ll offer services to mission-critical IT projects for enterprise customers. Guess it’s high time we learned how to do our own oil changes.

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id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body”> We coveredTwitter in early January, and since then it’s gotten a lot of buzz (especially at SXSW this week.) As cool as it is, there are several ways to improve the experience. You can make viewing posts faster, read “tweets” through RSS, and more. Check out these Twitter accessories:

Mac widget Twitterific The Iconfactory 1. Twitter apps and widgets: Get Twitter out of your Web browser and onto your desktop. For Windows users we recommend Twitteroo, a simple and small desktop app that’s good for monitoring and posting to your twitter feed. Vista users also can try Twadget, which runs in the gadget sidebar. For the Mac, there’s Twitterific, which advanced users will like for its hot key support, allowing for quick scrolling and sorting through feeds using keyboard shortcuts.

If you want to dig deeper into Twitter apps, try the Twitter Fan Wiki.

2. Twitter via WAP: Twitter was built for SMS, but some phones have rotten SMS clients and jual wiremesh semarang many users have to pay for SMS messages. An alternative is Twapper (review), a Web page that displays Twitter messages in a very phone-friendly format. It doesn’t let you post messages, though.

3. Mapping services: GeoTwitter shows the latest public Twitter posts on a large Google map. You can click any of the pins to read the post. Twitterami takes a different approach, using location announcement service Frappr to show where Twitter users reside and linking to their feeds.

A Flash Twitter badge CNET Networks 4. Twitter badges: Put badges on your blog or social networking profile to show off your Twitter feed. Twitter gives you three flavors to choose from, including a friends’ timeline that shows the last five posts from your Twitter friends. Instead of visiting your page on Twitter, they’ll be able to see it on your site.

5. Blogging: Besides putting the badges on your site, there’s not really a way to publish through typical blogs yet, which is where Alex King’s WordPress plug-in comes in handy. If you’ve got a WordPress blog, you can simply install this plug-in and publish right to your Twitter feed without having to visit Twitter’s site. There also are options to archive and grab Twitter updates to copy straight into a new blog post.

CNET Networks 6. RSS: Avoid Twitter’s site completely by adding your friends’ Twitter RSS feeds to your favorite reader. In fact, if you’re using a single page aggregator such as Netvibes or Pageflakes, you can set up your own tab for just Twitter feeds. There’s even a Twitter module that lets you post straight right from your Netvibes page. You can find a person’s RSS feed at the bottom left of their Twitter page. If you’re using Firefox, clicking on the RSS icon on the address bar will give you the option to subscribe. For IE7, just click the orange RSS button under the refresh button.

One thing none of these apps will do: improve Twitter’s overall reliability. The service grew so fast last week that it is now regularly overloading the Twitter servers. The team is working on reinforcing the platform.

Rafe Needlemancontributed to this post.

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More than one in eight voters shifted their intentions in the final week of the federal election campaign, a study has found.

The Voter Choice Project, led by election analyst RK Crosby, was a panel study involving multiple waves of surveys delivered to the same people.

The panel included 2482 verified voters when the election was called, covering all 151 electorates with a proportional balance across the states and territories.

While published opinion polls pointed to a narrow win to Labor, the Voter Choice Project found 13 per cent of voters shifted in the final week with the biggest beneficiary being the Liberal-National coalition.

When it came to the reasons for voting, the “switching” voters mainly made up their minds not on the basis of policy or political party but that a candidate was the “best option” or the “best of a bad lot”, the study’s leader said.

However, digging deeper into the data, the study found economic and tax issues – including Labor’s controversial franking credits policy – as well as “values” had the most impact in getting people to vote against their incumbent Labor jual besi beton semarang MP and for the coalition.

“By contrast, ‘ideological reasons’ were reinforcing votes in seats already held by the coalition, rather than influencing voters in Labor-held seats,” Ms Crosby said.

“In Labor’s favour, 100 per cent of those voting for a ‘vision for the country’ ended up in their column.”

Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party, armed with a $60 million advertising budget, picked up most of its support in the final fortnight of the campaign largely from protest voters, the study found.

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