If you, like me, have an unhealthy addiction to microblogging, social network and IM services, and happen to be on a Mac, you can ring out the bells of glory today. MoodSwing, a Quicksilver plugin, and its menu-bar cousin MoodBlast are a pair of must have tools that make it easy to beam out your mood to your Facebook status, Skype mood message, Twitter, Jaiku, Adium and iChat all at once (or in any combination you damn well please).
I will admit that I am still a Quicksilver dunce, and intend to spend a little time getting to know how to put this much-talked about tool into productivity overdrive. This means that I haven’t spent much time with MoodSwing yet. Instead I’ve been using the menu-bar resident MoodBlast, which is working very nicely for me.
When you click on the little pill in your menu-bar, you open up this dialogue:
Which as you can see allows you to blast out your mood message to as many as six tools and services at once. I’ve been using the very cool IMified so far via Adium, another great time-saving multi-IM tool, but MoodBlast is a nice complement to IMify, especially thanks to the highly desirable Facebook status updater - the missing link in other apps of this nature so far. Skype mood message intergration is a nice feature too!
Okay, if you aren’t a regular user of at least some of the several services supported here you are probably wondering what the fuss is about. But if you make daily compulsive use of all of the above, as I do - and I know I’m not alone in this - you are going to be downloading this very, very soon, and perhaps leaving a kind donation for the chap behind it.
My menu-bar is becoming a very crowded place now…
Thanks to fellow Twitterer Andreas Lienemann for the tip!