Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Review: Seesmic Desktop 2

What Twitter client do you use? There's Twitter's official site, Tweetdeck, a bunch of other apps, and then there is Seesmic. I love, Seesmic Desktop 2 and Seesmic for Android. I am going to review both tonight. The categories are going to be speed, features, customization, and simplicity
Seesmic Desktop 2 Review: 

Speed: 10/10
Seesmic Desktop 2 is by far the fastest desktop application for my Dell. It takes a mere 4 seconds to open, and displays all the media immediately. The application itself has little lag, and most importantly, takes very little time to actually send a tweet. Also, the very beautiful transitions such as opening the settings panel are very smooth. 

Features: 10/10
Seesmic is by far the leader in this category. They offer every singe thing that Tweetdeck has, plus more. It has plugins (a big plus for me), and it even has a little settings tab when posting to Facebook to post only to your fan pages, which is the most convenient thing ever for me, because when I go to Tweet a blog post, I always have to go to Facebook's site separately. 

Customization: 8/10
This really is a great thing about Seesmic, but I feel that they can make it even better. Seesmic has the option to change the color of your background, as well as adding an image. The images come with Seesmic, but with a little tinkering (dragging and image and dropping into the backgrounds folder), you can make Seesmic look however you want. Tweetdeck can customize every part of it. The text color, the color of the tweet box, and pretty much the color of everything. If Seesmic added that feature, that would make the app really shine. 

Simplicity: 9.5/10
This desktop couldn't get any simpler, except for one thing. It is easy to see all the updates from your columns, which accounts you have added, and moving around your columns is a piece of cake. One problem I have though is the settings button is really small. It may be hard to figure out it's location if you don't look. 

Overall: Seesmic Desktop 2 is a great choice for a desktop Twitter client. It is chock full of features, and has simple ways to make Tweeting faster, easier, and smarter. 

Seesmic For Android Review: 

Speed: 8/10
Seesmic for Android is great at rendering all the tweets in a timely manner, but their new feature to include pictures in the timeline has made scrolling extremely choppy. Other than that, it quickly renders menus and tweets from the timeline. 

Features: 9/10
This app cannot match Twidroyd (formerly called Twidroid) in terms of features, but beats every other app in the market in this category. 

Customization: 9/10 
Again no themes, but there are plenty of settings to change to fit your liking. 

Simplicity: 10/10
Wow. Just blows any other app in terms of ease of use, but does not lose any features in the making. Has big tabs on top to let you choose what to view, and just is plain simple. 

Overall: Seesmic for Android is a great choice for your Twitter (and Google Buzz) needs. If you have a higher end device, this just gets even better, with faster picture rendering for a smoother timeline scroll. 
Download Link To Official Site: http://seesmic.com/seesmic_mobile/android/

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