Tweetdeck on mimo-740
Having tweetdeck open on same workspace often cause distractions during work. This even made me to abstain from using twitter for last two weeks. Now I have a setup of a special device for twitter in the form of Mimo 740 7″ Touchscreen monitor. I was impressed with the features packed in this device and that too in affordable price (150£). Although the mimo website shows ‘out of stock’ for this model, it is still available for sale on amazon and play.
I have always loved adding monitors to my notebook, but this model offers features of more than just a monitor. I find it most suitable as a secondary monitor for my macbook, dedicated for tweetdeck. The best part is, you need not worry about video cards and graphic ports for your machine, as it connects using the standard USB port (without using external power supply) and works with XP/Vista/OSX. The user experience with the touchscreen is decent but certainly not comparable to that of iPhones. You can switch between replies/direct messages/facebook status updates, scroll the tweet list by dragging the scrollbar using the touch features. The main drawback is the size of UI controls with the traditional desktop applications (button size, scrollbar width etc) which make it slightly difficult to control using fingers.
The inbuild mic and camera helps to configure it as a portable skype device (of course with cords), which can be kept away from the computer and controlled using touch screen. Some more applications, which I found appropriate for use on this device are youtube (in full screen mode), a dedicated console/terminal while coding, Colloquy for IRC, iChat, etc. It would be interesting to see how people build applications targeted for such touch enabled devices to enrich the user experience for commonly used services.
