HOW-TO TECH
Hootsuite to TWEET
Hootsuite lets you post live and scheduled tweets to multiple Twitter and other social-media accounts without accessing each one separately.
1. Create an account at hootsuite.com/signup. Select and add all the social networks, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, to which you belong.
2. Type your message, select the networks you’d like to update, click on “send now.” You can shrink long links using the handy URL shortener. Other features include the ability to track stats (how many people clicked on a link you posted).
3. To schedule your tweets, type your message, click on “send later,” set the time and date for it to be released, select the networks, click on “schedule.” A “message scheduled” alert will appear, and your message will be delivered at the appointed time.
— Newsday
SCREEN SCENE
NOW SHOWING: “ALICE IN WONDERLAND”
Tim Burton put his own signature stamp on Lewis Carroll’s seminal surrealist fantasy, picking up the action several year’s afip to the titular world populated by cheshire cats, red queens and mad hatters. Newcomer Mia Wasikowska plays the grown Alice and such usual Burton co-stars as Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter assume the identities of famous Wonderland creatures. — Ethan Alter
DRIVING YOU NUTS
Don’t you just hate it when you can almost remember something, but then it slips away? And then it nags at you until you get it settled? Well, we’re here to create that experience for you. Here’s a quote from a movie that was popular sometime in the past 100 years. Find the answer at the bottom.
“Now you listen to me, I’m an advertising man, not a red herring. I’ve got a job, a secretary, a mother, two ex-wives and several bartenders that depend upon me, and I don’t intend to disappoint them all by getting myself ‘slightly’ killed.”
— McClatchy Newspapers
POP PICKS
ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Little Boots, “Hands” (CD)
It can be too easy to put all dance music into a single boom-boom genre. It’s only when an exomes along that we remember dance music can be not only good, but even intelligent. Little Boots’ (aka Victoria Hesketh ) debut “Hands” is one of those rare albums that triggers such a reminder. Hook-laden and full of up-to-date beats, “Hands” is one heck of an introduction to Hesketh. — Erin Lyndal Martin
READ: “Veracity” by Laura Bynum
Imagine a world where the government is all knowing and all seeing. Fear, violence, and/or government sanctioned drugs control the masses. Sound familiar? If you read science/speculative fiction, it should. While most probably aren’t going to label “Veracity” an instant classic, Bynum manages to follow the traditional tenets of dystopian literature and still add a few twists and turns that make the book suspenseful, engaging, and thought-provoking. Drawing inspiration from both the United States’ Patriot Act and recent outbreaks of viral infections, such as the avian flu, Bynum creates a world governed by the Confederation of the Willing. — Catharine Ramsdell
— PopMatters.com
TECH TALK
One of my favorite Web sites for online bargains is woot.com. Woot usually features one item for sale per day until the item sells out. I have purchased phones, an MP3 player and more at a deal on the site. Today in my column I answer a common e-mail question on social networks. Read more in Donnie Jenkins’ Tech Talk column.
ANSWER: Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant), “North by Northwest”