Twitter the micro blogging service finally hit the mainstream this week in the UK. It started last Friday with Jonathan Ross discussing the service with Twitter power user Stephen Fry. The discussion lasted about 40 seconds but launched a weeks worth of media attention. A lot of this came from BBC Radio 1 with some of the DJ's including Chris Moyles using and discussing the service on air.

Twitter was featured in national newspapers including the Daily Mail when Stephen Fry used the service to Tweet about being stuck in a lift (and to post picture of the experience).

UK based TweekDesk has also found itself in the news this week for the way it works with Twitter.

You can follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/imafish .

This is the pilot episode of our technology based ImAFish TV show. The show uses the same format as Revision 3's Diggnation and aims to give a British/European touch to a US show.

Let me know what you think as we are always looking for improvements. The show is 40minutes long and we discuss a range of this weeks top topics from the social new site www.digg.com.

Email us at tv@imafish.co.uk with your comments and suggestions

I've recently signed up to LinkedIn and have been updating my profile:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/petewhite

I've been working on getting connections and recommendations. LinkedIn is aimed at social networking between business professionals. 

Has anyone else used LinkedIn and more importantly have they got business through it? Does it mainly cater for certain industries (tech I expect) or is there a wider appeal for the service?

Has anyone been recommended in their office to join the service?

ImAFish is pleased to launch their latest website - 12stix.com. The site details technology fixes and answers for Windows XP, Server 2003, Mac OS X, Drupal 5 & 6, CSS and PHP.

Ben Powell and Pete White are using their day to day experience in I.T. support to post their common and interesting fixes discovered in their jobs.

Last week I discussed my latest purchase - the new Acer Aspire One. I first installed Windows XP however found that it ran fairly slowly. Applications such as Firefox were especially bad taking upto 30 seconds to load certain web pages. Firefox would often go into 'jelly' mode where the application would hang for 5-10 seconds at a time.

After a couple of days with XP I reinstalled the default OS, Linspire. This ran a lot quicker than XP however left much to be desired. Even after performing several tweaks and enabling advanced mode I still felt that the Aspire One could do a lot more.

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Yesterday I got my hands on a brand new Acer Aspire One! The 25cm mini laptop currently on sale for £180 at Comet packs in great power and portability.
Tech Spec
Processor: 1.6ghz Intel AtomMemory: 512mbHard Drive: 8gig SSDScreen: 1024x600Battery: 3 Hours
(The version I have on the left and the slightly more powerful version on the right) Image Techfresh.
The Aspire One comes with a cut down version of Linspire however I soon replaced this with Windows XP. This is not to say there is anything wrong with Linspire and I'm considering restoring it however I was interested to see how well XP ran.
As there is no CD drive I installed this via a USB key. XP does not run as fast as Linspire however is an acceptable speed. As many of the applications I use in XP such as Firefox and Filezilla are available under Linspire then I'm undecided as to which OS to use.
The keyboard is a good size allowing typing at a similar speed to a full size keyboard and with a 1024x600 display webpages display well.
The Aspire One includes three USB ports, a VGA socket, gigabit Lan, headphones, microphone, 5 in 1 memory card reader and an SD expansion slot.

Our sister site www.ipodhistory.com has been updated with the latest iPods announced last week:

iPod Nano Forth Generation

iPod Touch Second Generation

iPod Classic 120gig

Which one will be on your Christmas list?