I just want to do a really quick post about the recent Twitter changes with regard to how @reply’s are shown in your timeline.

If you don’t know already, Twitter used to have an option in the settings area that allowed you to choose whether or not you could see reply’s of a particular user you were following that were replying to another user. In short, if you don’t know the person in an @reply from a user, their tweet with that reply would not show up in your timeline feed. You could, before the controversial change, opt to see them or not.

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Today Palm_inc and Sprint announced that the Palm Pre will be released on June 6th. It should be available at Sprint stores, Best Buy, Radioshack, and some select Walmarts.

I have have two things to say:

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I started doing a design a little while ago for a friend named Robbie Cooper, and I decided in my design to incorporate some depth and 3-D illustrations to help give the site more pop.  While going through some tutorials in the various blogs that I read, I noticed that this is a design trend which, I believe, will become popular this year, if it has not already.  Here are some examples:

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